[Stephan Whelan]

Suunto have made a sensible decision here - they have built a good freediving facility into a scuba computer. Building just a computer for the freediving market would mean reducing potential target market by a significant percentage.

The similarities in functionality to the D6 isn't by chance - the D6 is an excellent Scuba computer and provided an excellent starting point.

What was pleasing to see was the interest Suunto took in wanting to understand how Freediver use the computer and feed that back into the R&D process. Ultimately the needs of a freediver are significantly less than that of a Scuba diver but in my view combining both a freediving and scuba function into one unit will make the whole package much more attractive to the wider diving market.

As a FYI it's going to be priced (RRP) at 295 (GBP) for the UK market. Can't remember the USD price but I think it's around the 600 USD mark.