Suunto OCEAN
Suunto’s latest watch packs advanced dive features into a beautiful case with all the latest tech inside based on the excellent Suunto Race sports watch.
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Suunto Ocean – Dive Modes
This device offers various dive modes, including a simple single-gas mode for recreational diving with nitrox support and multigas support for technical diving.
Suunto Ocean – Safety Alerts
OCEAN provides audible and vibration alerts to enhance safety. You can customize the options for receiving tank pressure, dive time, and depth alarms to ensure you stay aware of essential dive data.
Suunto Ocean – Advanced Dive Algorithm
The Suunto OCEAN is equipped with the Bühlmann 16 dive algorithm with Gradient Factors and configurable ascent profiles. This allows you to choose your desired decompression profile.
Suunto Ocean – Wireless Tank Pressure
Pair your Suunto Ocean with the Suunto Tank POD to monitor your gas pressure and consumption directly from your wrist.
Suunto Ocean – Freedive Mode
Track your dives with separate underwater and surface views. The device also includes multiple alarms for depth, dive time, and ascent/descent speed.
Suunto OCEAN Key specifications
The OCEAN boasts a maximum accuracy GPS battery life of 120 hours and will work for 12 days as a smartwatch. That’s impressive as the super-bright 466x466px AMOLED screen is the type that was historically a battery guzzler…not this time.
At 99g it’s a relatively heavy sports watch but part of that is accounted for by high-quality robust materials including a sapphire glass lens. Naturally, the watch is tested to a depth of 100m
There are masses of non-dive features which are more than comprehensively covered. But you came here for the dive capabilities, so here goes starting with highlights from a recent Suunto presentation:
DIVING FUNCTIONS
Then here are the exact details.
SUUNTO APP – Dive Logs
Your dive and other sports are synced back to the Suunto app and a new feature I’d not seen from Suunto before is the Dive Track visualisation
Price & Availability
Available in summer 2024
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This looks cool. I’m glad to see it.
It seems based on the Race but with the button controls of the Suunto Vertical. I wonder if they think the dial was a mistake or it has waterproofing issues.
Maybe simply practical reasons like usability with neopren gloves?
Interesting, I wonder how they record the dive track, just inertial navigation plus compass?
I’m surprised the sensors in the watch are sensitive enough to make the nice plot they have in the screenshot.
If it’s really that accurate, it’d be awesome to see it on the dive watch in real time, in case you get disoriented during a dive with poor viz and didn’t do a good job of remembering bearings to get back to your exit point/boat.
i wondered the same!
sensors in normal watches can detect pressure differences accurately eg for going up a flight of stairs (they all do it)
the accelerometers for running power must also be pretty accurate in the 3D sense.
how either work differently or as accurately underwater IDK !! water is just another fluid after all
I’m not so sure, a 5 degree error in the angle of your wrist isn’t likely to effect step/stride calculations as much as plotting a course over a few 100m
Glad to see that Suunto is finally branching out and utilize their mostly unused diving expertise and potential! Was about time. I always have a soft spot for suunto and I really appreciate what they are doing since the introduction of the Vertical.
Keep it up!
Seeing this makes me think that the screen on the race is completely underused.
As a data nerd this makes me want to get into diving 😀
Same with the Garmin diving watch.
Looks like a good alternative to the Garmin mk3 for almost half the price.
Does anybody know if suunto has the ocean floor maps like the DiveView maps feature on the garmin ?
Zero use for a diving watch but that’s one good looking watch.
While it’s great to see Suunto make this new announcement, there is a much darker story here as well.
Suunto’s Chinese ownership held their Finnish team together to get this product launched and immediately announced major staff reductions. Suunto Ocean will be made in Finland for now and the majority of those impacted will be among the office staff and management.
“Suunto, known for its sports watches among other things, is moving its production and product development in Finland to China and reducing its personnel in Finland by more than seventy employees.
The company already has operations in China. Production and product development still remain in Finland.
– Suunto will transfer part of the production and part of the product development to China. The number by which the staff will be reduced is 76. Before the change negotiations, we had slightly less than 300 staff. A huge number of people and long working careers at Suunno. Of course, this is an unfortunate situation, Suunto’s CFO Niina Sappinen tells MTV .”
Source: https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/mtv-n-tiedot-suunto-ulkoistaa-tuotantoaan-kiinaan-kymmenille-potkut-suomessa/8961098
Congrats to the Suunto team for getting this product to market. However, there is a much, much darker story here behind the scenes. Immediately after announcing the new Suunto Ocean device, Finnish news reported major layoffs at the company. Nearly 80 of Suunto’s 300 Finnish employees will depart the company, primarily management and office staff. Suunto’s Chinese ownership group essentially held the Finnish team together to get this device launched.
Production of the Suunto Ocean is slated for Finland so factory employees are unimpacted for now, but manufacturing of the company’s previously announced Suunto Race is already taking place in China for cost reasons. And those operations are expected to expand.
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“Suunto, known for its sports watches among other things, is moving its production and product development in Finland to China and reducing its personnel in Finland by more than seventy employees.
The company already has operations in China. Production and product development still remain in Finland.
– Suunto will transfer part of the production and part of the product development to China. The number by which the staff will be reduced is 76. Before the change negotiations, we had slightly less than 300 staff. A huge number of people and long working careers at Suunno. Of course, this is an unfortunate situation, Suunto’s CFO Niina Sappinen tells MTV.”
https://www. mtvuutiset .fi/artikkeli/mtv-n-tiedot-suunto-ulkoistaa-tuotantoaan-kiinaan-kymmenille-potkut-suomessa/8961098
Looks very nice but still 800 EUR for a watch that “only” goes to 60m depth?
hi
it’s WR100 …so 100m.
however
Maximum operating depth (EN 13319) is 60 m
which i take to mean that the feature might not work deeper than 60m but the watch itself has integrity at higher depths
Dove a bit into the specifications, it can go to 100 meters depth and can work as a dive computer till 60 meters depth.
Anyway, was just comparing specs with Suunto D5 and other dive watches. I never dove more than 2 meters, going 100m below the surface would scare the crap out of me.
I see you are not diver. As a recreational diver, max depth is 20m for open water diver, 30m for advanced with deep diver course and 40m as a professional. Deeper than that is regarded technical diving and even those guys don’t go to 60m or air, they use trimix or heliox. Their computers are a lot more expensive than this.If a Suunto ocean ever goes below 60m I hope it’s because it’s dropped and not on someone’s wrist.