SHEARWATER TERIC DIVE COMPUTER

The Teric is our third dive computer. It is a game-changer. I was using an Oceanic Atom 3.0 -- nothing wrong with it all, and my wife was using a Oceanic VT 4.0, both AI. However, my wife was having difficulty reading the numerals as she uses reading glasses. Enter the Teric. She saw a fellow diver's on a live aboard, looked at it underwater and could clearly see the numbers on the display, the colors of which can be changed to many other colors. So I bought one for her. Then when I saw it, I had to buy one for myself too, so I wouldn't have equipment envy for our month long trip to the Red Sea. Having used it for a week of diving -- about 33 dives so far, I can safely say that this is a game-changer. First, the display is fantastic, with a "big" display which shows three rows of info, or "standard," which shows four rows, two of which are customizable with different info. She could easily read her computer underwater, and she changed the different information from standard white to purple, green and yellow. the brightness can be adjusted to high, medium, low or off. Night dives, low or medium was great. Day dives, I found medium was great, although she liked high. AI was a snap and it paired with my Oceanic transmitter with no problem. The watch face is also customizable with different displays and colors. Second, the menu settings are a snap to set. Tired about digging through all sorts of obscure settings to change your gases from air to nitrox? No more. The menu settings are intuitive, and you just scroll to gases, where you can program up to five different gases and with between them. Piece of cake. I set one on nitrox 32% and one on air at 21%, and it is a snap to switch between them. I also love the fact that it is easy to change what is displayed on the home screen and in what colors, although it is simple to scroll underwater between the five screens and get as much info as you could ever want underwater. I also turned off the beeping alarm and just use the vibrate, which was nice and strong, especially for the safety stop. Nice feature is that it clearly displays "safety stop" in green and if you drift lower than about 23 ft., it pauses and then resumes when you ascend a little. I also like how it displays "safety cleared" in blue when finished -- just cool little features. I also like that it displays ascent rate numerically and in arrows, which change to yellow and red if you are ascending too fast. Again, a nice little touch. I customized the standard display to show the time remaining underwater, which I use to additionally monitor my air consumption, although you can also display air consumption as PSI per minute as well. You can monitor both your and your buddy's air as well as it will track two transmitters at once. There are many other features for the rebreather and tech diving set, but I don't need those. One chard lasts about two-three days of 4-5 dives a day -- about four or five hours of diving and surface time. It comes with a wireless charging cradle which can give a full charge in 1.5 hours on "Quick Charge" and 4 hours or so on regular charge. There are many other features to this fantastic dive watch, but those are the key ones that I have used to date. Note that according to shearwater, it already has a scratch guard installed. In fact, the only thing that I did not absolutely love about this with was that it displays "TTS". which is "time to surface," which to me is a completely worthless statistic, but cannot be moved from the home screen. Minor. The Shearwater comes with its own dive log software which pairs over bluetooth with the dive computer and downloads the info to your laptop or phone. It has a few bugs that could be better, but you can simply and wirelessly get all of your dive information, take notes on the dive, problems that you had, etc. You can also export those files to Diverlog, but I haven't tried that yet. All told, it is a pricey computer, but color display, menu, ease of use . . . Let's face it. Your dive computer is the most important part of your gear, and the Teric is the most amazing and well thought out dive computer that I have seen. I highly recommend it. I haven't dropped mine, so I can't opine on it's durability, but after 30 dives with it, both of us are in love with our new Terics!

It is not up to me to say why the Shearwater Teric ia what it is. :)

How to fall in love with your scuba lifestyle over and over again. It is not just a dive computer, it's a piece of art and soul. Beyond words, fish and bubbles. Dived in the Maldives and everyone I met, wanted to chat about this watch. Worth every shekel you'll pay for it. Will last a lifetime. With its air transmitter, you'll be a scuba king!

Purchased this dive watch just before the pandemic and just got the chance to use it. Did 12 dives with it and was very impressed. It has every option you could want for a technical dive watch, but is very easy to use for a recreational diver. The menus are extremely easy to navigate. The display is bright and clear. For full disclosure, if you are out of the water and in extremely bright conditions, the display does not appear bright but can be read. An important consideration for me in choosing this watch was the fact that it is rechargeable. The wireless charging station works very well. The watch has good battery life while in use. I would do 2 40-minute dives a day, and starting with a full charge, I would be at between 75 and 80% charge after 2 days of diving with the display at full brightness and wirelessly downloading the dive data. This was without the wireless pressure gauge recording tank pressure. I don’t know how that affects battery life. The watch and wrist strap are rugged and well made. While I chose this watch because it was rechargeable and seemed to have the best brightness among the contenders, its capabilities have really impressed me. Overall, this is the best dive watch/console I’ve used and would highly recommend it.

Having logged 70+ dives now in various water conditions I can say the Teric is about as good as it gets for a no nonsense dive computer that isn't as clunky as some other models out there which could compete on a similar functionality level. The combination with the transmitter makes diving both from a safety but also logging perspective a "joy". The Shearwater app makes it incredibly easy to sync the watch alongside the transmitter data into your digital logbook for further use and analysis. The computer itself is very intuitive as it relates to setup and usage. The display is easy to read and organize as well as very bright under water so not issues looking at all your dive data even while in the deep or rather darker caves etc. Switching between different gas mixes is equally easy done. In addition personally prefer the rather conservative algorithm calculating NDL etc. while diving. The computer also allows easy pairing with two transmitters at the same time which is a major upside when heading to more challenging dives with you buddy. Overall very happy with the purchase and can highly recommend both devices.