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Survey Results: Dive Computer Market, Features & Usage Among Scuba Divers (Tech & Recreational)

Understanding how scuba divers use dive computers, how they plan their dives, and what features are most important or missing. Market research.

Darcy Kieran is the author of the reference book “Scuba Diving Industry Market Size & Statistics.”

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InDepth Magazine and the Business of Diving Institute are collaborating on a series of scuba diving industry surveys to better understand where we stand on key dive industry issues, identify workable solutions, increase awareness of opportunities, and fuel discussions among dive professionals.

We thank the following scuba diving industry leaders for supporting this initiative: Shearwater, DAN Europe, and GUE.

In September and October 2022, we conducted a survey on the usage of dive computers by scuba divers.

In this analysis of the results, we will, first, report on answers and insights provided by tech divers to determine what features matter the most, which new features are in demand, whether we can estimate the size of the tech diving computer market, how tech divers use dive computers when planning and executing their dives, and other related questions.

Then we will look at recreational divers who are not doing tech diving with the same questions.

In this report, recreational divers refer to scuba divers who do not participate in tech diving.

Scuba Diving Computers for Tech Divers

Tech divers who took part in our survey were participants in the following types of tech diving:

• 57.0% closed-circuit rebreathers
• 50.0% cave diving
• 7.3% semi-closed rebreathers
• 68.7% tech diving excluding cave and rebreathers