Diving the Suunto Vyper dive computer

The Suunto Vyper dive computer has been around a long time, they were an industry changing computer. Prior to their introduction, the favoured dive computer for dive professionals was the Aladin Pro computer; then everywhere I dived, the Suunto Vyper led computer sales among professionals and new divers alike - the Vyper was strapped to every diver's wrist.

The Vyper was smaller in dimensions to the Aladin computers, the algorithm was the then new de Winke Reduced Gradient Bubble Model (RGBM) as oppossed to the Aladin's Buehlmann neo-Haldanean model. The favourite feature of many divers was the safety stop count-down timer, an altitude compensation setting along with a personal compensation setting, nitrox was standard and you could set a depth alarm. Like the Aladin Pro, the Vyper was a clear leader of its era, the Vyper is still in production and whilst now super-seeded, the Vyper is still a pretty decent dive computer for specific dive applications.