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Most iPhone users are afraid to get even a drop of water near their phones, lest they one day be rejected by an Apple Store Genius. But when strapped into the iGills waterproof case, you can safely dive with your phone to a depth of 130 feet, and keep track of when you need to surface.
Not only does the clear polycarbonate case turn your phone into an underwater video and still camera with a reinforced glass lens porthole on the back, it also includes a built-in depth and temperature sensor. And since you don’t have access to the iPhone’s touchscreen display or any of its buttons while submerged, the iGills has a set of its own that can be used to operate an accompanying all-in-one app.
So in addition to snapping pics, the app lets divers keep track of their depth, their time underwater, their nitrox levels for making safe ascents, and even alarms alerting them to their remaining oxygen supply. Since it doesn’t actually tie into an oxygen tank or other external sensors, before you dive you have to explicitly program the app with various parameters so it can keep track of your progress. But for just over £210 ($330) it replaces a lot of other expensive dive gear. Not to mention ensuring you can check Facebook the second you surface. [iGills via iLounge]
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You breath air, not oxygen, unless you’re on a deco stage stop at 6m. Oxygen is toxic when the partial pressure gets above 1.6, which in the case of pure O2 will be long before the max operating depth of that case. You’d probs be dead by 15m.
Also it’s nitrogen you’re probably tracking on the ascent, even if you are breathing nitrox. Really though you can’t track n2, so you’re tracking ascent rate and the computer is calculating the n2 change in partial pressure to make sure it’s slow enough to avoid bubbles and micro-bubbles.
But, yeah. Looks cool – I saw something like this on photojojo. Will buy!!
Amazing how divers always have to cringe about the oxygen thing. I laughed when I started reading this because I paid $20 for a housing when I was last in the US -it’s waterproof to 30m and has a socket for waterproof headphones. But then I clicked through and realised that this is simply awesome. Apart form the usual dive computer functions I love the logging functions – I rarely log dives as it’s pretty tedious to do and at the end of the day I prefer to chill with beers, not try to interrogate my dive computer and scrawl into a book. I’ve thought about a logging app, but without the dive data it’s still pretty meaningless. So here’s a device that does it all for you with GPS data thrown in. Great – now I can get on with being lazy and still have bragging rights about how many dives I’ve done. Well played, Sirs, well played.