I was lucky enough to tag along on the dive.
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While Doxa built 331 of these Mission 31 Professionals, it delivered 31 of them, serial numbers 2 through 32, to the Aquarius habitat, 65 feet under the Atlantic on Monday, the first full day of the mission. The Mission 31 Professional, while bearing obvious similarities to those Jacques and his crew wore, has a titanium case, sapphire glass, and a solid link bracelet with expanding clasp – features Cousteau the elder could have only dreamed of. Divers, was the official importer of Doxas to America. Of course, the Cousteau and Doxa names already had history together, as it was Fabien’s grandfather who consulted with Doxa on the creation of its first purpose-built SUB 300T dive watch in the 1960s and whose company, U.S. The analog watches Cousteau was referring to were limited edition Mission 31 Professionals that the Swiss brand built to commemorate, and raise funds for, this history-making adventure. So it was actually a hidden blessing that Doxa chose to sponsor Mission 31 because these analog watches they’ve provided will serve as our primary bottom timers.” “There’s no algorithm in any of the commercially available dive computers that will work for us as aquanauts since we’ll be living in a pressurized environment for so long. It was the day before he and five other aquanauts were to begin their 31-day stay at the world’s only undersea research lab, Aquarius Reef Base, off the coast of Florida. They lock out, actually get bent!” Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the famous Jacques-Yves Cousteau, explained to me as he fiddled with the bezel of his orange-dialed dive watch. “We learned, by happenstance, that during Mission 31 we cannot use digital dive computers on our dives outside the habitat to time our excursions.