Recently Aqualung were real nice to me and decided to replace my D9 with the D9tx. My reaction when Emma handed me the box was one of reverence.
It came in a black box with Suunto written on it in silver, I opened the box and I’m sure my eyes almost fell out of my head when I saw the watch sat there
placed in it’s own little box with all the wrapping still on it.
It took me about a day and a half to bear taking it out of the box and put it on my wrist, having used a few wrist watches in my time the D9tx was extremely
light compared to others. After doing what every male does, turning it on and immediately fiddling with all the buttons without reading the instructions,
I found how easy it was to use, it has 4 buttons, mode, select, up and down making it an easy computer to use with barely any fiddling around.
Taking the D9tx for it’s first dive was great, I’d set it up to my nitrox blend in just a few minutes and off I went. The great thing about the D9tx with the air integration
is the amount of flexibility you have with the alarms, there are ones for time, depth, deco, amount of air and time remaining at depth! If you want you can turn all the
alarms off too! The great thing about the air integration is the watch actually calculates how long you can stay at depth with your current breathing rate, so you get a
feel for roughly how long you can stay down at that current depth. Not only does the D9tx look great it also can do basically everything your most likely to need for your diving career,
it even does Trimix! It can do up to 8 gases, has a dive planner built in and has a log book with recent dives and your whole history!
During a dive the D9tx has relatively large writing and a user friendly setup, it shows dive time and amount of air, deco, time remaining and depth, however you can
change these by just pushing up and down getting pretty much all the information you’ll ever need whilst diving, what sets it above most computers is its in-built digital
compass, which is actually accurate! It is fantastic for when I’m teaching/leading dives as you can even bookmark certain headings and depths each dive you do,
it also has a gauge mode, free diving mode and you can even turn the dive mode off completely. Even when your not diving the D9tx looks like a great wrist watch as well.
I could not recommend the D9tx highly enough to anyone, whether your recreational, tec or professional the D9tx is a fantastic watch for whatever your needs.