Why monitor your heart rate when you are diving? Measuring your heart rate using a heart rate monitor (HRM) is an excellent way to gauge the effectiveness of your workload because as you strengthen your body through exercise, you also strengthen your heart. Today just about every watch has an HRM to analyze and evaluate everything you do. Whether you are in the military, public service, or a working diver, you should be at a certain level of fitness so you can do your job.
So why not use this technology in diving as well? With the help of a heart rate monitor, you can keep an eye on the heart rate underwater and make your dives safer. By monitoring your heart rate, you can assess your workload. Furthermore, by measuring your heart rate, you can specifically train to increase your endurance in advance, and also you can use it to measure your output so you know how fast you are swimming and help track the distance you are covering. With the SCUBAPRO HRM, you can monitor your body temperature also. It is also great for diving in the winter, during long-duration dives, or even open ocean swims in the winter.
Increased exertion, while diving in deep water, improves circulation, which, in turn, increases the nitrogen uptake. The heart rate can also be used to calculate decompression times even more accurately and make diving even safer. That’s why the SCUBAPRO computers don’t just show depth, no-stop times, and the decompression schedule but also continuously inform the underwater athlete about his or her heart rate, i.e., his or her stress, which in turn is factored in when calculating other dive parameters. Exclusive to SCUBAPRO dive computers, the heart rate monitor, jointly developed with Polar (the world leader in the field of heart rate monitors), measures your heartbeat and body temperature during the dive that can then be factored into the decompression calculation along with your workload. This can results in safer diving because each diver is unique, and each dive location and situation are different. The HRM is also ideal for freedivers, measuring heart rate, and sounding an alarm if the heart rate drops below the set level.
Factoring your heart rate into your decompression calculations makes diving safer and a lot more fun. A lightweight waterproof ECG (electrocardiogram) transmitter is built into an elastic belt that straps around the chest, directly against the skin. This belt wirelessly transmits your heart rate data to your SCUBAPRO personal dive computer. Data is displayed on the screen, plus it is factored into your decompression calculations to create a more personalized dive plan and improve the quality of your diving.
Engineered by divers for divers, the SCUBAPRO Aladdin 2 (A2) watch performs advanced functions in the timeless style above and below the surface. Galileo 2 is everything you need for an extraordinary underwater experience.
The unique integrated Heart Rate Monitor senses your effort, incorporates it into the workload calculation, and adapts the decompression algorithm. The result is safer diving, because the diver’s physiology reports it, and because each dive location and situation is different. The HRM is also ideal for Apnea divers, measuring heart rate, and sounding an alarm if the heart rate drops below the set level.
SCUBAPRO’s line of “smart” personal dive computers, including the Galileo 2 (G2), Galileo Sol, Galileo Luna, M2, Mantis 1, the Mantis, the Meridian, and the new A2 Dive computer are all designed with Human Factor DivingTM. All enable you to better track your time underwater and improve your diving by continually calculating and adjusting to new data based on your personal biometrics.
SCUBAPRO and Human Factor Diving bring the world of biometrics and wearable technology to diving. SCUBAPRO’s personal dive computers are indispensable tools for divers of all skill levels, providing personalized data not available on any other dive computer.