Idive define12/21/2023 Rated to a 100 feet (30m), the housing enables use of the camera app via three pre-positioned buttons. TAT7 – Produced for the iPhone 4/4S the TAT7 is one of the simplest solutions for underwater iPhone photography. Are divers prepared to lose their phones? For many the the answer will be no, but for a brave few a new world of evolving dive technology awaits, and it’s only going to get better. The old saying goes: never take anything underwater you’re not prepared to lose. One big question that remains to be seen is how many people will risk their precious iPhone underwater. In an age where social media and constant communication is hugely important to a lot of people, this really is a remarkable achievement and may actually help promote diving to a new audience. One simply stunning aspect to this technology is that you can video, edit and share your dive all from one mobile device, during your surface interval. Phone reception in the middle of the Atlantic may not be realistic but for a shore dive, or even a couple of miles out, you may be able to ring your mum for help… before posting photos on Facebook, as the website humorously states. This technology also can be used as an emergency device, it’s a phone after all. iGills serves as camera and also as backup device if your computer fails or if you lose a compass. It may not replace all the gear a regular diver has shelled out for over the years, but maybe it doesn’t need to. This reduces cost for a vacationing diver, and cuts excess baggage fees. The iGills unit even displays your dive info while snapping stills or shooting video. They can take their iPhone underwater as dive computer, as compass, as underwater stills and video camera and as dive log. Two markets where the iGills and Scuba Capsule units may do well are travellers and divers not diving enough to justify buying a full set of gear. Mobile apps have evolved to a point where, if they are well developed, they shouldn’t crash and indeed the iGills app has not. Any compass can be lost and any camera can flood. What if it floods, or the app crashes? Well, as with any dive computer or instrument, you should ideally have a back-up. Some divers won’t be thrilled with the idea of having one device do everything. The idea is simple plug your precious iPhone into the housing and using the free, accompanying app, turn your phone into a multipurpose dive tool, with high resolution screen, 8 mega pixel camera, fast processor and GPS. The iGills unit (above) is a solid, plastic housing with built-in depth and temperature gauge rated to 130 feet (40m). IGills, now on sale from and the forthcoming Scuba Capsule, are two products that take advantage of this technology and apply it to recreational scuba diving. IPhones and in time, other mobile devices, may just usher in a new era of dive equipment. But as mobile devices become more common in the diving public, it’s easy to forget just how powerful these little computers have become. We’ve had heads up displays inside masks, and remotely air integrated computers. It aims to replace your stills and video camera, dive computer, log book and even compass.ĭespite an evolution in micro electronics in recent years, the recreational dive industry has seen few innovations. But they are only camera housings, the new iGills housing and app package offers much more. Underwater housings, seen below, can now turn your beloved iPhone into a good little underwater camera. More and more diving related apps for mobile devices are available, not least among them the splendid DIVER iPad magazine app, available soon from the iTunes newsstand (hint hint). The first iPhone commercials proudly stated “There’s an App for that.” Indeed, it seems so. ![]() We dive into a new, emerging wave of SCUBA technology ![]() As electronic devices become smaller, cheaper and more powerful, their applications can be seen infiltrating all walks of life.
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