Promised Oceanic+ app for Apple Watch Ultra arriving Monday - AppleInsider

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Later connected Monday, Apple Watch Ultra users tin instrumentality vantage of the caller Oceanic+ app from Huish Outdoors, which turns the instrumentality into a dive computer.

Demonstrated at the launch of the Apple Watch Ultra, the Oceanic+ app is contiguous rolling retired connected the App Store. Made by Huish Outdoors, successful collaboration with Apple, it includes "robust dive planning, and a broad post-dive experience."

"At Huish Outdoors, our intent is fueling the quality tone for adventure," Mike Huish, the company's CEO, said in a statement. "Oceanic+ connected Apple Watch Ultra is 1 of the biggest innovations to deed the dive manufacture successful a agelong time. We're creating an accessible, shareable, amended diving acquisition for everybody."

"One of our archetypal goals was to support it intuitive," continues Huish. "People who cognize however to usage an Apple Watch already cognize however to usage this dive computer, due to the fact that it's telling them things successful a elemental format they tin understand."

"The navigation menus are simple," helium said, "scrolling with the Digital Crown and utilizing the Action button, you tin navigate and usage each the functionality of the dive machine portion diving."

Oceanic+ connected Apple Watch Ultra

Oceanic+ features a dive planner successful which users "can acceptable their aboveground time, their depth, and their gas," and Oceanic+ volition past "calculate their No Deco (no-decompression) time" limit. The planner besides includes dive conditions, specified arsenic h2o temperature, and tides.

After a dive, users get "map of introduction and exit locations, arsenic good arsenic graphs of depth, somesthesia ascent rate," and more.

Oceanic+ is being released connected the App Store connected Monday, and for basal operations is escaped to use. For much features, specified arsenic the determination planner, Oceanic+ costs $9.99 per month, oregon $79.99 per year.

For an yearly $129, Oceanic+ tin beryllium utilized done Family Sharing for up to 5 people.

Apple says that the Apple Watch Ultra is certified to WR100 and EN 13319, an internationally recognized modular for dive accessories. Huish Outdoors' vice president of merchandise improvement and design, Andrea Silvestri, adds that it was the intuitiveness of the ticker that led to Oceanic+.

"From Apple Watch Ultra's large, agleam Retina show and dual-core S8 SiP, to its compact size, to the Digital Crown and dedicated Action button, and adjacent the haptics, which are designed truthful good and are truthful noticeable successful the water," helium says, "there's ne'er been thing similar this successful scuba diving earlier now."