Maldives Liveaboard Review with Apple watch ultra and Oceanic+

[Cheizz]

It's a kind of KPI for me. The lower my gas consumption, the more efficient/relaxed I was. It's just a simple one-metric lag indicator for me.

With gas planning, your gas consumption is a variable without which you cannot calculate how long you'll be able to dive a certain profile. It helps you making the choice between doing a surface swim to a point and the drop vs gradually descending following the bottom to that same point (in case of a shore dive).

So it gets you some insights into your own 'performance' if you will, and knowing your average air consumption is a variable you need when you're planning things in more detail.

 

[acidrush]

It's a kind of KPI for me. The lower my gas consumption, the more efficient/relaxed I was. It's just a simple one-metric lag indicator for me.

With gas planning, your gas consumption is a variable without which you cannot calculate how long you'll be able to dive a certain profile. It helps you making the choice between doing a surface swim to a point and the drop vs gradually descending following the bottom to that same point (in case of a shore dive).

So it gets you some insights into your own 'performance' if you will, and knowing your average air consumption is a variable you need when you're planning things in more detail.

Haha! Never knew diving has become so complicated. All I have done over the years when diving on LOB is make sure I have above 200 bar at the start of the dive, do the dive, send up a SMB during safety stop and wait for boat to pick me up.

 

[Cheizz]

Haha! Never knew diving has become so complicated. All I have done over the years when diving on LOB is make sure I have above 200 bar at the start of the dive, do the dive, send up a SMB during safety stop and wait for boat to pick me up.

Which is true for the majority of divers. I think a dive computer should/could facilitate these calculaties for those who want them. You don’t have to use them of course, but then at least you could if you wanted to.

 

[eelnoraa]

I just checked my other computer which is an Aladin 2G, it does not show average depth as well. To be honest, until this thread, I never really considered about average depth all these years. As far as I know, the dive comps I used showed max depth and bottom time.

Just for interest, what does knowing your average depth do for a diver? Every dive is different, so how does calculating your air consumption help?

Aladin2G for sure has average depth, at least in gauge mode. I am using one and has avg depth on main screen in every dive. It is one of the main reason I keep using this computer. Oceanic computers don’t have it, many that is why they didn’t implements for Apple Watch either.