Suunto Ocean general discussion
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Other thought after few weeks of using this watch:
I didn’t had storm alert despite storm was neraby me, and came after few minutes. -
@Johnkokk said in Suunto Ocean general discussion:
By the way has anyone noticed that when you have GPS enabled (at least for freediving), but maybe it is also for swimming, etc, that distance that you swam is way off in the suunto app ?
I did a couple of spearfishing sessions with gps enabled and at one time the app said i swam for 10 meters(!!!) and yesterday it said 400+ meters when a I swam at least twice as that. In both cases, the route is correctly marked on the map in the app, but the distance is completely off.
UPDATE on the issue.
It seems that this is a watch bug and not the app.
Yesterday, i went for another spearfishing session.When i got back and ended the activity i checked the report on the watch, and it said i swam for 1.22 km.However the distance is twice as that ( i even cross checked in google earth), at about 2.5km.It seems that for some reason it didn’t “catch” the return, or something.
The route on the map is correct as you see on the screenshot, but the distance on the watch is not.
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@Alejandro said in Suunto Ocean general discussion:
Awesome. This watch was made for me.
Do any of the testers know if the OHR works at depth to record heart rate while SCUBA diving?Yes it tracks heart rate during a dive but must not be over your wetsuit.
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Just completed a week of diving with the ocean, logging 20 dives.
All were single gas no decompression profiles using EAN32 and conducted primarily in daylight.
Screen was easy to see in all conditions including bright sun.
Battery life was excellent.
Clean,.easy to read display with clear warnings and alerts.
The back end is missing features garmin and others offer: longer sms text, contact payment, etc.
Very cumbersome.to.add maps.or.features…
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@svenbrnn said in Suunto Ocean general discussion:
- the worse thing: when i dive in germanies lakes i usally use a 7mm half dry neopren. However since my arm is already quite big the normal strep with 230mm won’t fit anymore after adding 14mm more to my arm’s diameter, for the D5 there was a strap extention for dry suits available but due to the D5 having a 24mm and the Ocean having only 22mm thats not compatible. Will there be a 22mm extention for the ocean?
Greetings
SvenAfter reading this, I bought a 22mm extension strap for dive, but it doesn’t fit well. Suunto strap size is strange. The strap is 22mm at the connection portion, while is 24mm on its length.
@isazi said in Suunto Ocean general discussion:
@Patrick-Löffler-0 we can expect the Ocean getting some (all?) of the Race features, but not sure when. A quarterly release cycle for this watch is probably not happening.
It is good. But at the dive side, can we expect the Ocean getting all of the D5 features:
- MOD;
- More info on the screen;
- Dive customization through the app;
- Compass;
- Locking the bearing;
- Dive planner?
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I am ready to purchase the Ocean, but I’m undecided between All Black and Stainless Steel because I’m concerned about scratches showing up on the Black watch. If you own the Black version, can you share how well the watch stands up to scratches and whether they are very visible?
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I’ve got it for a month. However no scratches yet.
I’m very careful with my watches.
i had a couple of light bumps on doors, but it didn’t get any scratch.
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Hi,
I bought SO to use as a dive computer. I have been using it for 3 weeks. I have made 8 dives. However, I was very upset on the first dive when I learned that there was no dive compass. Then I realized that I could not calculate NDL for the second dive. Except for my two dives, it did not produce the dive route of my other dives. I hope that these features will be in the next update. -
I still don’t know how, but mine got the saphire cristal scratched in the first dive. Now I’m using a 43mm protection glass.
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@diogao13 Thats so bad! I bought Vertical at end of 2023, used protectors, but got scratches after few days, max 1 week, than I throw it away, and using since with 0 scratches. I hit my Vertical so many times in metal parts at work, edges etc. (daily watch 24/7) and only bezel got scratches. Screen seems 100% brand new. You must be really unlucky or hit sharp rock on Your Ocean.
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@Tami999, yeah that’s bad. i don’t know where it was. I took all care, but when I was in the boat I noted the small scratches.
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@diogao13 said in Suunto Ocean general discussion:
@svenbrnn said in Suunto Ocean general discussion:
- the worse thing: when i dive in germanies lakes i usally use a 7mm half dry neopren. However since my arm is already quite big the normal strep with 230mm won’t fit anymore after adding 14mm more to my arm’s diameter, for the D5 there was a strap extention for dry suits available but due to the D5 having a 24mm and the Ocean having only 22mm thats not compatible. Will there be a 22mm extention for the ocean?
Greetings
SvenAfter reading this, I bought a 22mm extension strap for dive, but it doesn’t fit well. Suunto strap size is strange. The strap is 22mm at the connection portion, while is 24mm on its length.
Can you please post a picture of your problem?
as far as I can see, the only official solution is the extension strap 22mm (compatible with the D4i), and by some logic the full scuba length strap for the D5 (24mm) would not fit.
as you noticed, the Ocean is declared as 22mm, but that’s just a groove, the strap is 24mm wide along its entire length.
And the straps for the D5 are defined as 24mm and they are through the “flat” groove and are 24mm wide along their entire length (at least that’s what I concluded from the pictures).
They did a great job of making the straps incompatible with each other
It’s really sad that a diving watch can’t be used for diving out of the box, (slightly thicker hand, 7mm semi-dry suit + gloves), but you need to determine what you need to buy in order to use the watch normally.
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See the original strap:
Connection portion width
Strap widthI believe D4i will fit, since the extension strap is full 24mm.
@dreammaster said in Suunto Ocean general discussion:
They did a great job of making the straps incompatible with each other
It’s really sad that a diving watch can’t be used for diving out of the box, (slightly thicker hand, 7mm semi-dry suit + gloves), but you need to determine what you need to buy in order to use the watch normally.
I agree
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What 22mm extension strap you bought that doesnt fit well? For D4i (OEM) or some 3rd party manufactured? (Aliexpress etc).
Can you take picture of that extension conected to original SO strap?
Thanks in advance
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@dreammaster @diogao13 why don’t you open a separate thread to discuss straps?
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@isazi, can you move these last conversations to a new thread?
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Anyone knows when will the 2.35.34 update come to Ocean?
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Bought Suunto Ocean & Pod to replace an ageing Suunto D4i & SPG as a wristwatch sized dive computer and pressure gauge.
I don’t want the sports, GPS and health tracking stuff and so turned off everything like that I could find in the menus. It took about 30 minutes to load a few of the maps and I haven’t bothered to look at them since. I set the dual time for my home zone and on flying I used the “airplane mode”. On landing and connecting to my iPhone again the time zones changed as expected.
For diving I changed the safety stop to 4 mins (conservative from the usual 3) and the start of dive depth to 1m (from the default 1.2m) and added a 100 BAR pressure alarm (a 50 alarm is preloaded and quite rightly can’t be deleted).
I have now completed 21 dives on different Nitrox mixes. It takes just seconds to change the EAN value after checking the gas before a dive. The Pod connected every time and stayed connected without fail. At the end of dive the watch synced the dive log to my iPhone when they were close together again.
The battery lasted all week on a 19 dive liveaboard. The AMOLED screen is easy to read in poor viz and at night. The core information is just what you need to see and the choice of Tank Pressure or “other stuff”, easy to navigate with single button presses while diving. The alarms work well underwater and did not seem to bother other divers, and the safety stop count down and changes from NDL to Deco time and back again are seamless.
As a dive computer for Air/Nitrox on single tanks or manifold twins for divers who don’t use a compass (whether they carry it or not) it is excellent. So that is well over 90% of all dives and divers. It is not suitable for side mount (independent twins), trimix or CCR and does not claim to be – and it is about half the price of computers that are.
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Guys , I have a question. I’m running with Ocean and it measures cadence like i’m on a bicycle, it must be in steps per minute, but its in evolutions per minute …
Trying to find how to turn it.
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@Maximfreediver running cadence is always the full period from right foot to right foot.
Has always been like this in all Suunto watches.
I think there is no “must be like this or that”. The value shown is the period, not half of it.
