The Ultimate Freedive Computer
Posted By Paul Kotik on 17 July 2006
All true, now that you mention it. How did I come to accept all those flaws?
"The F1", declared Eric, "Solves all of these problems."
Eric Fattah also wanted a more rugged instrument, one whose casing and lens wouldn't be quickly scratched to ruin in the less-than-delicate freediving environment.
The FI design concept matured in September, 2004. The prototype was completed six months later, and in April 2006 rode with Mandy-Rae Cruickshank on her World Record 50m no-fins constant ballast dive.
Eric Fattah: " In the fall of 2005 the F1 passed its real-world final exam. Henry Kaiser did 40 scuba dives with an F1 in Antarctica, in -40 C air and -2 C water." The F1 took it in stride.
The first production units were brought to market in December, 2006 by Liquivision, the company Eric Fattah founded to manufacture his revolutionary fluid goggles. According to Fattah the F1 computer now has over 3 engineering man-years and $400,000 invested in its research and development.
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