Freediving with the Suunto Mosquito/Stinger watch/computer
I have just ordered a Suunto Mosquito dive computer to use for freediving, and I was wondering if anyone else is already using this piece of equipment?
It is pretty much identical to the Suunto Stinger, except in plastic. The only other relevant difference is that you cannot change the freediving recording intervals on the Mosquito (it's fixed at 2 seconds), while on the stinger you can choose to record info at 2secs, 4s, 10s etc. I personally would have set it to 2 secs, so it's no loss for me, especially considering how much cheaper it is compared with the Stinger.
In freediving mode, the computer shows the current depth, the time of the dive in secs, the max depth of the dive(s) as well as temperature. You can also set a max depth and max time alarm. At the surface, a surface interval timer starts automatically in mins and secs.
Afterwards you can scroll through all the dives you made (I think you can log 3hrs worth of diving), and even download it to a PC to view the profiles (with the optional PC interface thingy).
As far as I can tell, this is all the info I could possibly need, and it would make my dives much safer knowing my exact SI time. The watch also functions as a full decompression scuba computer, so I can use it as a back up to my current one, and it even allows nitrox diving, which my current computer does not have.
If anyone has any comments and/or experiences with this watch, please feel free to post them.
I'll let you know how it is when I get it and do a few dives with it.
Dive safe.
Terry
I have just ordered a Suunto Mosquito dive computer to use for freediving, and I was wondering if anyone else is already using this piece of equipment?
It is pretty much identical to the Suunto Stinger, except in plastic. The only other relevant difference is that you cannot change the freediving recording intervals on the Mosquito (it's fixed at 2 seconds), while on the stinger you can choose to record info at 2secs, 4s, 10s etc. I personally would have set it to 2 secs, so it's no loss for me, especially considering how much cheaper it is compared with the Stinger.
In freediving mode, the computer shows the current depth, the time of the dive in secs, the max depth of the dive(s) as well as temperature. You can also set a max depth and max time alarm. At the surface, a surface interval timer starts automatically in mins and secs.
Afterwards you can scroll through all the dives you made (I think you can log 3hrs worth of diving), and even download it to a PC to view the profiles (with the optional PC interface thingy).
As far as I can tell, this is all the info I could possibly need, and it would make my dives much safer knowing my exact SI time. The watch also functions as a full decompression scuba computer, so I can use it as a back up to my current one, and it even allows nitrox diving, which my current computer does not have.
If anyone has any comments and/or experiences with this watch, please feel free to post them.
I'll let you know how it is when I get it and do a few dives with it.
Dive safe.
Terry
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