Freediving with the Suunto Stinger
Posted By Rabi Dabboussi on 10 June 2001
Hello, I'm on my way to San Fran. so I thought I'd kill some time and write up my report on the Suunto Stinger.
Many of you have asked me about the Suunto Stinger and what exactly the freedive mode offers. Well, I just received the watch yesterday and I have already read the whole manual and played with the watch/computer a little. I'm going to test it in the water to see how everything works.
Before I start, let me clarify that I am not affiliated with Suunto. I had been a user of Citizen HA for over 4 years, and I decided to make the change and bought the Stinger since it offers more features ;).
The Suunto Stinger is one of latest diving wristtop computers out on the market. It features full decompression computers for air and EAN (Nitrox) plus a Freedive/Gauge mode that is designed to a freediver's specs. The gauge mode kicks in after diving in freedive mode for over 5 min in a single dive, this is used for technical diving that the decompression computers would not allow. You can read more about the scuba functions and this computer in general at the following links.
http://www.sea-quest.com/pages/dcomp/dc_stinger.html
http://www.suunto.fi/diving/diving_index.html
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