Shearwater Research Teric Dive Computer - Black

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!

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. :)

I purchased the Teric to replace my Oceanic OC1 which I found too difficult to use and read. I don't have perfect eyesight and the OC1's display was just too small for me. The Teric on the other hand is perfect. It's super easy to read (even without the display in "Big" mode). It's also SUPER intuitive. I did 15 dives with the Teric in Cozumel with Aldora Divers. They gave us Nitrox 32 for the first dive and Nitrox 36 for the 2nd and 3rd dives of the day. With the Teric switching between Gas types was trivial and I I was 100% sure I had it setup right every time. I was also using my OC1 as a backup and by comparison, it was FAR more difficult to setup and I was never 100% sure I had things setup right. I did run into one issue. After the first dive, my Air Integration stopped working. My buddy and I did some testing with his Teric and both our transmitters and we were able to determine that the issue was the Teric and not the Transmitter. While I was still in Mexico, I contacted Shearwater and I had a replacement Teric delivered and waiting for me when I got home a few days later. That is AMAZING customer service. The new Teric works perfectly with my Transmitter. No matter how good a product is, there will sometimes be issues. I don't hold this against Shearwater and they went above and beyond to make it right. All in all, I couldn't be more happy with the Teric and Shearwater. I can't see myself ever needing a different dive computer.

I recently ordered the Shearwater Teric. Although I have not been able to dive with the computer yet I would like to leave a review on the outstanding support from the people at Shearwater, in particular Ness. The first Teric I ordered had an issue, which turned out to be operator error on my behalf and not an issue with the computer. I emailed Shearwater to ask about the issue and they recommended I send it in, its worth noting that they responded to me almost immediately. I shipped back the computer and they overnighted me a second computer immediately. Once I received the new computer I noticed the same issue that I was having with the first. I emailed Shearwater again at 7PM in the evening. Almost immediately following my email I received a phone call from Ness. After Ness realized that I live at altitude I learned that I had to adjust the low PP02 setting, something that has always been done automatically by my other dive computers. The fact that she called me immediately really shows she, and Shearwater, care about their customers. The computer itself is amazing. The colors and screen are amazing and its much more user friendly than any of my other dive computers. I love how I can customize the home screen to show what I want to see. It also has a much better compass than my OCI. Thank you to Shearwater and particularly Ness.

13 dives and no issues so far. Excellent battery life! I didn't charge it for the entire week of my last dive trip with multiple dives per day and there was plenty of battery life remaining. You can view dive logs on the watch or transmit them to the iphone via Shearwater app and Bluetooth. I have ordered the air integration transmitter separately, but have yet to use it. No GPS which is a little irritating - meaning dive locations have to be manually entered. The watch will automatically alert you for your safety stop with a 5 minute countdown at 15 feet. The bright LCD display is clearly visible under water with different brightness settings for your liking. The watch includes sensors for water temperature - automatically stored in your dive log.