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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Atomic Aquatics First Dive Computer

Atomic has recently introduced its first dive computer to the market, The Atomic Aquatics Cobalt .
First Ill list a few of the features:
Full Color display ooooh nice, lithium ion battery which is rechargeable via ac cord or usb, HP quick disconnect, 3D digital compass, air/nitrox up to 99% O2 , and can be preprogrammed with up to three different gases.
Now when I first heard Atomic was bringing to the market their very own dive computer I was a little ...well lets say I thought it would be a joke. First off many of these companies developing dive computers have been at it for a number of years and still crappy ones with complicated menus show up year after year. The first pictures released with its color screen looked so different than what we are used to seeing I for one thought it was going to be a flop but nonetheless would help them get into the computer market. The chance of the newcomer competing with some of the most advanced dive computers to date seemed far fetched. Atomic came out swinging, to my surprise the Atomic stacks up to any computer available on the market. I have not yet had the opportunity to dive this computer but just playing with it on land gave me enough to say this is one of the easiest/coolest dive computers available. I would bet anyone out there could go through all the menus, setting everything from time to O2 without picking up the manual. The menus explain themself's and the button configuration/ layout is easy to use and understand. I put it in a class with the Uwatec Galileo ( your choice, hoseless or not)