Looks sick. Im not on the market. My Nixon is killing it. That thing looks slick though. Someone on here should hop all over that.
someone really needs to get on this...rip curl makes the best tide watches, IMO. if i needed one, i'd snap this up in a heartbeat!
Back in the 70's there was a watch advertised in Surfer mag that my 1st wife bought for me. came in a jar of water. 1st time with it in surf, a feeb dropped in on me and knocked it off my arm when flailing by.
I just got the Shark Tide watch for my B Day, love it so far. I like it because it doesn't have anything shiny on it that could be mistaken as a lure.
This watch is sick I have it. Got it for $75 on Whiskey's. They still have the red one for same price I think but not others.
I loved my shark too. Had it out in the biggest swell to hit CA in a decade and it was a champ. I was hanging out on mission one day drinking with all our friends and we decided it was a good idea to jump off the apex of the mission bay bridge. Was way higher than it looks, I hit the water and the watch just exploded off my wrist. I tried to chase it down but it went too deep and I lost it. I loved that watch.
Damn! I wish I would have seen this, I bought a Rip Curl tide watch the same week you posted this for the same price and yours is waaay nicer.
Just curious...what's the necessity of a tide watch? I can get it on my phone in less then a few seconds. Guess it's a cool novelty item. I would be interested in that new gps watch to keep track of a session. Love my plain old freestyles. Gotta digital and divers style. They have never failed me...always had them since I was a kid.
your phone has the time on it, too, but it's a whole lot cooler to have a watch & know how to read it. it's one of those things that you just should know how to do. read a tide chart, tell time on an analog face...it amazes me how many people can't read an analog clock anymore. also, when i do long distance, inter-island paddles, it's nice to be able to know what the tide is doing when i cross, enter, or exit an inlet. it's a lot easier to take a quick look at my wrist than to tap my phone's screen a few times & open the right app through the waterproof casing. not to mention a whole helluva lot cheaper if i lose it, too. i feel like a good tide watch is one of those things a dedicated surfer/fisherman/waterman should just have.
We'll I can't surf with my phone and if iam in the water and the misses is expecting me home for dinner or need to be at work, i need my watch. Guess I could always read the sun. Makes sense with you long distance paddling. If it looks like a swell the next day...I just look at my tide chart, and iam good.
Does anyone go by sun position for time? Believe it or not, it's simple to get good at if you know the current sunrise and sunset. I love the tide watch and it's great to have a watch out on the break but of the last 10 times people have asked me what time I thought it was when I wasn't out there with a watch, I was within 10-15 minutes on 9 of the occasions, as verified by someone in the lineup who did have one on. As for exact timing of tides, I don't know how necessary that is. All depends on where you are. In Maine and Washington, yeah, 20 minutes can make a big difference at certain points. Most others though, if you know whether it's incoming and outgoing, when high and low is that day, and generally what the current time is, then I've seen that you're fairly set with that info. Gotta realize that there is 1.5 hour slack or so on both ends where not much is changing so that knocks out about half the time between tides. How long you plan to stay out is another big factor. All depends on location. But try the sundial method. It's fun and you'll be surprised you quick you can calibrate yourself to time via sun position. Cloudy days...not so easy.
