SCUBA, Self contained underwater breathing apparatus. Most people will connect the acronym SCUBA to exploring the underwater world with tanks of air strapped upon your back. While this is essentially what SCUBA diving is, there is a lot of work involved with making this a reality. Being a SCUBA diver myself I am quite aware of all the planning needed when you're diving, and more so when you are doing a deep dive. My deepest dive to date is roughly 120 feet. While there is a lot to explore at those depths, there are also a lot of dangers around deep dives. Continue reading for the low down on a BlackBerry 10 application that will help in making SCUBA diving safer.
The Dive Plan for the BlackBerry Z10 is an application that has been designed around making SCUBA diving safer for everyone. Now, deep dives require special training, and having this app by no means gives your the skill set required to perform such a dive. But for those who have the training, The Dive Plan will help you dive deeper and safer.
Application Design
The Dive Plan for the BlackBerry Z10 is an application that has been approved into the Built For BlackBerry Program, which means it has been built with quality and connectivity in mind. From a design perspective the application is top quality, built using the Cascades development environment, it operates as one would expect an officially approved app to run.
Application Features
The Dive Plan allows you to create two dive plans in one day, and then additional dive plans for the future. Within the first dive plan you have a few options to pick from. Options that you will find are dive depth, time, surface interval, then the dive depth and time for your second dive.
Peeking to the left reviews the options for your second dive plan, which contain the same options as plan 1, but includes an additional third dive.
Once again, peeking to the left gives you more options. The next option is your next dive plan. In this page you are able to input a previous dives information. After you have inputted your last dive the application will tell you what your surface interval must be before it is safe to dive again.
One last peek will reveal the minimum SIT menu (SIT stands for Surface Interval Time). On this page you can input the information from two previous dives and the application will spit out an amount of time you must be out of the water before you can go diving again.
Application Share Function
For an application to be accepted as a Built For BlackBerry app it needs to have certain characteristics that make it truly an application that has been built for the BlackBerry platform. The Dive Plan like I stated has been developed using the Cascades development environment, but also includes many features of the share invocation framework.
Conclusion
If you're an avid SCUBA diver, or think that diving will be in your future I highly recommend downloading The Dive Plan for the BlackBerry Z10. With the features and benefits that the application provides its no wonder why it was accepted into the Built For BlackBerry program. You can download The Dive Plan from BlackBerry World for $3.99 on your BlackBerry Z10.
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