A Mumbai diver didn’t even know Apple Watch Ultra had a siren until it automatically started and saved his life.
Diver credits Apple Watch Ultra for saving his life — image credit: Kshitij Zodape
It’s not the best known or most publicized feature of the Apple Watch Ultra, but every model to date has come with an 86-decibel siren alarm. Apple designed it to start blasting out either when the user turns it on or, as in this case, when they are incapacitated and the Apple Watch Ultra’s depth sensor determines there’s a problem.
According to India Today, Kshitij Zodape was SCUBA diving over the summer, swimming in the Bay of Bengal near Puducherry. When he was at around 120 feet down in the ocean, a weight belt he was wearing came unstuck.
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