Hi, Mike here, President of Nautilus Lifeline
We have been in touch with Scott over in Hawaii. The fellow who had the
really troubling drift out to sea. We hope to receive his unit in our lab
very shortly. This last week has been very troubling and there has been a
considerable amount of discussion and feedback on our design side as well as
with our dealers and distributors and with many, many people on forums and
chat rooms. We're very grateful to everybody for their feedback.
We're taking some proactive steps without knowing exactly what happened out
in Hawaii. We believe we can make the product even better by shifting our
thinking on the firmware. Up until now, we have recommended that the unit
get charged every couple of months or if the battery level drops below 80%.
Make sure the O-ring is clean and take the Lifeline away and go diving. Is
there if you need it. We now think that it would be better to treat the
Lifeline with the same level of care that a rebreather or other complex
equipment such as a camera is treated i.e. if you're going out on a dive
that may require a Lifeline, it's best to test it and check everything
before you go on the dive. We are going to update the firmware to include a
self diagnostic test that can be performed by the simple touch of a button.
So before you go diving all you have to do is open the lid and press the
button for a couple of seconds and the unit will go into a diagnostic
routine, load test the battery for 4 or 5 seconds and hopefully send a
message that reads “diagnostic check complete, clear to go diving”.
We are also going to switch the display over to continuously show the
percentage of battery level. We're going to modify the button so that the
strobe can be activated without being in the distress mode. And we are going
to adjust the Lifeline desktop software so that a battery conditioning mode
can be activated.
All of these things are intended to tweak and improve what we already hope
is very good functionality on the Lifeline. One of the great things about
the Lifeline is that it is a peripheral computing device which means that
all that an owner of a Lifeline has to do to upgrade the firmware is open
their Lifeline desktop software, click on update, and have their Lifeline
connected to the computer via a USB cord. Everything else should happen
automatically.
We welcome all suggestions and feedback and ideas on anything we can do to
make this great product even better. Our goal remains “Get found. Fast”.
Please don't hesitate to write.
Captain Mike Lever.
We have been in touch with Scott over in Hawaii. The fellow who had the
really troubling drift out to sea. We hope to receive his unit in our lab
very shortly. This last week has been very troubling and there has been a
considerable amount of discussion and feedback on our design side as well as
with our dealers and distributors and with many, many people on forums and
chat rooms. We're very grateful to everybody for their feedback.
We're taking some proactive steps without knowing exactly what happened out
in Hawaii. We believe we can make the product even better by shifting our
thinking on the firmware. Up until now, we have recommended that the unit
get charged every couple of months or if the battery level drops below 80%.
Make sure the O-ring is clean and take the Lifeline away and go diving. Is
there if you need it. We now think that it would be better to treat the
Lifeline with the same level of care that a rebreather or other complex
equipment such as a camera is treated i.e. if you're going out on a dive
that may require a Lifeline, it's best to test it and check everything
before you go on the dive. We are going to update the firmware to include a
self diagnostic test that can be performed by the simple touch of a button.
So before you go diving all you have to do is open the lid and press the
button for a couple of seconds and the unit will go into a diagnostic
routine, load test the battery for 4 or 5 seconds and hopefully send a
message that reads “diagnostic check complete, clear to go diving”.
We are also going to switch the display over to continuously show the
percentage of battery level. We're going to modify the button so that the
strobe can be activated without being in the distress mode. And we are going
to adjust the Lifeline desktop software so that a battery conditioning mode
can be activated.
All of these things are intended to tweak and improve what we already hope
is very good functionality on the Lifeline. One of the great things about
the Lifeline is that it is a peripheral computing device which means that
all that an owner of a Lifeline has to do to upgrade the firmware is open
their Lifeline desktop software, click on update, and have their Lifeline
connected to the computer via a USB cord. Everything else should happen
automatically.
We welcome all suggestions and feedback and ideas on anything we can do to
make this great product even better. Our goal remains “Get found. Fast”.
Please don't hesitate to write.
Captain Mike Lever.
