Do you guys even know what Shearwater is spending its r&d money on?
Have you looked at the products they sell for the ccr market?
DiveCAN? NERD? PPO2 HUD's? Scrubber duration screening (revo)?
Shearwater is first and foremost a rebreather electronics company. They happen to sell a lot of computers to oc tec divers and that must equate to a comfy cash pillow that can then be re-used towards rebreather technology. Transforming that cash pillow into a cash mattress by tapping into the recreational market only makes sense whether it's done through AI or not.
At a personal level, I hope this company gets a real cash cow in the process. My motives are purely selfish: I love their products both from a hardware and especially software point of view and I hope they bring more innovation to a boring market with a few leaders who have fallen asleep. Heck, other manufacturers keep on rebranding the same products over and over again!
This stands whether I start diving ccr again or not. It would even stand if I stopped doing deco, multigas dives as I would continue diving the same computer.
Have you looked at the products they sell for the ccr market?
DiveCAN? NERD? PPO2 HUD's? Scrubber duration screening (revo)?
Shearwater is first and foremost a rebreather electronics company. They happen to sell a lot of computers to oc tec divers and that must equate to a comfy cash pillow that can then be re-used towards rebreather technology. Transforming that cash pillow into a cash mattress by tapping into the recreational market only makes sense whether it's done through AI or not.
At a personal level, I hope this company gets a real cash cow in the process. My motives are purely selfish: I love their products both from a hardware and especially software point of view and I hope they bring more innovation to a boring market with a few leaders who have fallen asleep. Heck, other manufacturers keep on rebranding the same products over and over again!
This stands whether I start diving ccr again or not. It would even stand if I stopped doing deco, multigas dives as I would continue diving the same computer.