Apple Watch Ultra: Oceanic+ app now available on App Store - Check price, features and how it works

Apple Watch Ultra Oceanic+ app: The US-based tech giant Apple has launched the new Oceanic+ app to its Watch Ultra. The Oceanic+ app for recreational divers is available today on Apple Watch Ultra from the App Store. Apple said the new app turns the watch into a powerful and easy-to-use dive computer. 

"Designed by Huish Outdoors in collaboration with Apple, Oceanic+ enables scuba divers to take the watch they wear every day to previously unreachable depths — up to 40 meters, or 130 feet, to be exact — with the all-new depth gauge and water temperature sensors on Apple Watch Ultra," the company said in a statement.

Apple Watch Ultra Oceanic+ app price and availability

The Oceanic+ app for Apple Watch Ultra is available for download today on the App Store. Oceanic+ requires Apple Watch Ultra running watchOS 9.1 paired with iPhone 8 or later, and iPhone SE (2nd generation) or later running running iOS 16.1.

- The basic plan is free, and includes many common dive functions, including depth and time, as well as logging most recent dives. 

- For access to decompression tracking, tissue loading, the location planner, and an unlimited logbook capacity, 

- Oceanic+ is Rs 969 per month, or annually for Rs 7,700. Family Sharing is also available for Rs 11,900 annually, allowing access for up to five people.

According to the company, both the companion iPhone app and the Oceanic+ offer all of the essential functions of an advanced dive computer, robust dive planning, and a comprehensive post-dive experience. Andrea Silvestri, Huish Outdoors' vice president of product development and design, led the creation of Oceanic+ and has been testing the application on the watch underwater to get the app ready for the launch.

He praises the simplicity of the Watch Ultra, which frees divers from the strain of having to perform complex mental calculations and button presses required by other dive computers. This allows them to remain present and attentive to their surroundings.

Users can enter their surface time, depth and gas in the dive planner, and the app will calculate their No Deco (no-decompression) time -- a measurement used to set a time restriction for a diver at a specific depth. Dive conditions, such as tides, water temperature, and even recent information from the community, including visibility and currents, are also included in the planner.

"One of the most intuitive features of Oceanic+ on Apple Watch Ultra is the haptic feedback, a design feat of both the hardware and software that enables the watch to tap users on the wrist through a series of vibrations, allowing divers to feel notifications underwater --even through a wetsuit that's 7mm thick," Apple said in the blogpost.

The Oceanic+ app also offers complications that bring important information and tools to users at a glance, including no-fly time, surface time, quick access to the dive planner, dive settings, current elevation, maximum elevation allowed, and a quick access button back into the app. 

From planning the dive, to the first jump in, to their first step back on land, users can track and compare all of the details of their dives and share their experiences with fellow divers right from the app.