Seiko Dive Computer mystery

Hi all



I wonder if anyone can shed any light.



A couple of years ago i acquired a Seiko NX dive computer (aka Dh33, STN009J1, SBDK001)



Before acquiring it i had read some limited info on it. The most informative came from the now famous Titans of the Deep article.



The relevant extract is shown here (hope i ok to do that ):



Introduced in December of 2000, the Seiko Marinemaster NX dive computer is the commercial version of a professional watch developed by Seiko Epson for a private experimental project in the North Sea. A massive 53mm in diameter and 16.7mm thick, the titanium case is actually water resistant to 1000 meters, while the computer functions and depth gauge have been operationally limited to 99.9m by edict of Seiko's legal department. I expect that the original was designed for other mixed gas diving using mixtures like Trimix. Trimix is a blend of oxygen, helium, and nitrogen, which is used primarily for military and commercial diving, and was recently adopted by "advanced technical" scuba sport divers to go as deep as 200m (the Trimix scuba world record is 308m) - a usage even more controversial than Nitrox. While this model is sold in Asia and Europe by Seiko, North America has a further redesigned model private label distributed by Divelink as their own Nitrox Bathymetric Underwater Gauge.



Occasionally i have tried to find out more - without much success. The experimental project in the North Sea is intriguing. But there isn't much info on - well zero actually. The fact that its also rated to 1000m is also a rather nice fact. I have searched Divelink and found out a little about the B.U.G.--Bathymetric Underwater Gauge.



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It just seems rather surprising that there is not any more info on this watch and its history.



Has anyone else come across any other facts ?



Thanks



Barry

Anyone?

i've seen an old model on a european DM's wrist before, never thought much about it until now. it seemed like a nice piece of tech but a little dated compared to modern dive comps...

I think they - like many dive computer watches - are used as back ups for the actual computers themselves. I just thought it was bit unusual that in teh days of the internet, the info on these watches is so thin on the ground.

got a discussion on that at scuba forum sg, special thread for dive computer

Thanks for that - i am unable to find it. Would you be able to send a link ? Thanks