Cressi Unisex Adult Goa Diving Watch/computer

The Cressi Goa dive computer is a beginners dive watch. That said it hasn't been to the apple school of design; so the interface to set things is frustrating at best. It is compact for a dive computer its 48 mm makes it similar in size to the apple watches. The watch is setup using two buttons on the side. The buttons have a simple operation - they go back and forward through the menu by default; a long press on the top selects; a long press on the bottom goes back. On the clock screen the top button starts the backlight with a long press. The manual has a nice clear layout That 48mm leads to large clear, high contrast display, the display has large easy to read numbers; along with a timex indigo full coverage blue/ green backlight that will make things visible in the murky deep.It is fairly fully functioned (I think the most missed feature for me is there isn't a compass.) It will do duty for tanked and free divers. The watch maximum depth is more than sufficient at 120m (and if you harken for the time of the empire you can set the measurements to imperial.) Frankly if you are going that deep you are likely looking at an air integrated computer rather than a wrist watch variant - so you can easily check your tanks pressure.The most important feature for calculating settings and safety is it uses RGMB for its conservatism settings - these can be adjusted but only to make them more conservative (as I read things.) The standard settings have a reported history in dive magazines and sites and seem to be considered to be safe; which works for me. The watch can work in 4 dive modes - air, nitrox, gauge, free diving and finally off. The air or nitrox settings; can be swapped mid dive - but those buttons are really small if you are diving with gloves to be fiddling with so if mixed air is part of your plan you might want to stick to warmer waters.One nice thing is whilst you are getting used to using it; or at the end of a trip you can easily completely reset the watch. The watch stores 50 dive histories; which you can review on the screen; but if you want more detail you can get a separate computer connection dock that lets you download your dive history; Cressi have pc and mac software available. The battery life is listed as an enormous 2 years; and is self replaceable.The watch has ascent speed alarms; and will alert at stop points (and their duration) during the ascent - one nice thing is this is shown as time to wait rather than just minutes on some dive watches. Once you have dived it also has a no fly time calculator that updates with each dive.The Cressi Goa dive computer watch is a great start to dive tracking; you can use it as an every day watch - which wont nag you about steps. Or keep it in a drawer and use when you diving.

My first dive with this computer has been delayed due to social distancing regulations but finally my first dive of the year (late July).The dive computer has a two button interface so long and short presses are required to access menu's and change values and if not used on a regular basis without the help card you may forget how to make a change e.g. Nitrox mix.Many computer now have Bluetooth built in for easy dive log downloading but this one requires an optional cradle.My first dive with this was in the English channel where visibility can be quite poor but in 5 metres of vis it was okay (a bigger screen is best for UK waters especially if you are getting older like me).It is easy enough to understand during the dive and the post dive screen is also useful with No-Fly information.Over the few months I had it it has kept good time and they seem to ship in low power mode with the screen blank.Worn as a watch it looks good and the strap was long enough to go over the cuff of my dry suit wrist.

I dive with my family and usually we only have two dive computers, (one for each buddy pair). Therefore I was really pleased to be able to try out this wrist dive computer as my other half and I usually have the dive computers so that we can keep a close eye on what's going on on the dive...but I think that it's important for the kids to also start to pay attention to what's going on and not mainly rely on us and our computers, (obviously they always monitor their depth, remaining air etc).Therefore, it was great to be able to let them try out a fairly cheap, entry-level dive computer. The relatively low profile of this watch-style computer is great as it's not too chunky and whilst I have some reservations regarding the durability of the strap - as have others - but hopefully, with some care, it will last. The computer itself isn't the most user-friendly - especially, perhaps, for a generation that have grown up with pretty good interfaces. However, if you're patient and follow the instructions then it's not too difficult.Overall this dive computer has all the features that we need for normal, recreational diving. We compared its results to the other dive computers that we have and it was in agreement so no complaints there. I think that it's great as a dive computer for those that don't want to spend a fortune and don't require any advanced features.

After a bath, it got stuck in dive mode, erroneously showing a dive depth of 1.6 to 1.8 meters (it keeps fluctuating). The depth of my tub is merely 15-30 cm. The thermometer seems to work still. I cannot get it to exit dive mode. The dive timer keeps counting up on a nonexistent dive.I had even replaced its strap about 4 months ago, since it broke in several places.Bad quality. I will avoid Cressi from now on.

Very nice watch, looks more expensive then it is, very classy sport looking watch.thanks for your time