- Hey guys, it's Justine,
and today we're gonna talk about the Apple Watch Ultra.
I also have a little unboxing here.
So being a tech creator,
sometimes people just send you things
and you don't even know like where they came from.
I don't know where this came from.
I'm not sure who sent this. There was no note.
But I'm really excited about it so.
It's a Titanium Apple Watch Ultra Band,
and I've actually been really wanting one of these.
And I didn't even know that they made one,
and, well, here we go,
we've got one right here that just showed up in my mail.
So thank you I guess to SANDMARC or whoever sent this.
I'm hyped to check it out. So let's open it up.
Check that. Oh my gosh, this looks so good.
I mean, it is a little masculine, but I am so here for it.
Look at that nice. Oh wow, this is so nice.
I can't wait to wear this.
Like, I love the chain-link style.
They also have a little tool here,
so I feel like this is gonna be
a bigger project than I thought it was going to be.
I originally wanted to wear
the Milanese Loop on my Apple Watch Band,
but because you do need to wear the 45 millimeter,
it was actually too big.
So whenever I would wear it,
it would completely just overlap the watch,
because it was too large.
So this is great because I'll be able to fit it to size
of whatever I need.
So here's our little tool.
How do we do this?
We've got extra pieces. I should probably save those.
Let's put it on.
It's definitely gonna be too big,
but I don't feel like resizing it right now.
Oh, it matches beautifully.
Oh yeah, this is gonna look freaking incredible.
But look how many of these I need to take out.
oh my goodness, that's so many.
Here's the band,
and it clasps just like so.
Oh, this looks so good, and it's really lightweight.
It matches the titanium almost perfect.
Wow, this looks so freaking good.
I can't wait to size this.
I'm not gonna do it right now,
because I feel like this is more of a process
than I wanna get into right now.
So I'm gonna work on this later.
So it has now officially been,
I would say, maybe like seven or eight months,
since the Apple Watch Ultra has come out,
and it still, to me, has been I think,
one of the most surprising Apple products
that has exceeded my expectations.
Obviously, we saw how cool it was
in all of the demonstrations.
That you could take it out in super low temperatures.
You can use it as a dive computer.
And you can take it and really push it to its limits.
And yeah, that's cool, but like most people
aren't really gonna put themselves in those scenarios.
Now, when I first got this,
I said I was gonna get scuba certified.
I do sometimes make a lot of plans
and then I never actually get around
to being able to accomplish those plans or those goals.
So scuba certification was something
that like I wanted to do, but deep down I was terrified.
Still am a little terrified of the water,
because I'm not a strong swimmer,
and going underwater, I don't like the feeling of it,
I start getting a little panicky.
And living in California, you would think
that I should be quite comfortable in the water.
Well, I'm not.
So recently, I had this plan that my sister and I,
were going to go and get Scuba certified
to test out the Oceanic app on the Apple Watch.
So I'm planning to do a whole video
about the process of getting dive certified
and using the Apple Watch Ultra as a dive computer.
But when I went to the Maldives not too long ago,
they had a dive center there, and I thought,
okay, maybe I'll just go do one of their little intro dives.
So I did, and all of my fears of the water were,
well, they were correct.
I was terrified.
First thing that we did,
there was like a little scuba exploration
where you kind of go in,
they get you comfortable in the water,
and you kind of learn the ropes
of what you're supposed to do
when you actually go for the dive.
And this is very entry level,
so basically anyone can do this.
So I thought, yeah, it'll be easy, let's go.
And the wild thing about all of this,
is I didn't even wear my Apple Watch on this first dive,
because the only watch band that I had was the Trail Loop
and I was afraid that it was gonna come off in the water,
because it's Velcro.
So I didn't even freaking wear it.
I didn't even bring my ocean band,
because I had zero intention of diving.
I didn't even know that was an option.
But once I got there and had read that the Maldives
is one of the top destinations to dive,
I felt like that was something
that I couldn't let pass me by,
in case I never make it back there.
So we go out, we do this dive.
I'm freaking out just in the shallow water,
having to be able to just clear the mask.
If any of you have ever dove before,
you kind of know what goes into it.
But as someone who doesn't like the water and is terrified,
it was incredibly panic-inducing.
But thankfully, I do have very good breath control
and I'm able to calm myself down
in very high-stress situations.
So I used that and knew that you have to calm down
or you're gonna die.
That's basically a life or death situation
when you are underwater.
So anyway, I fight through the brewing panic attack
as we're about to go into the water for the first time.
I mean, even just like falling back into the boats,
terrifying.
I literally was probably crying underneath of my mask,
so thankfully you can't see it.
But I did it and then I was like, well wait a minute,
I have like five more days here,
and it takes four days to finish this certification course.
So I decided to just go for it.
I ended up getting dive certified.
So I basically went from completely terrified,
to oh my gosh, I now have a SCUBA certification.
And it was honestly an incredible, life-changing experience.
Why I'm kind of telling you this whole story is,
because the Apple Watch kind of motivated me to do that.
And I do feel like sometimes using tech to our advantage
to motivate us to reach goals, to try to get in shape.
I owe a lot of my fitness achievements to my gadgets,
because they tell me when I'm not sleeping enough.
Even though my body knows I'm not,
I sometimes need to see those facts.
I stopped running as much as I used to before.
So I can tell that my cardio levels
were obviously not where they used to be.
I know my resting heart rate is pretty low
and when I'm not running actively,
I can tell that starts raising slightly.
So I was like, all right,
let's step up the cardio a little more
to bring that back down and get back into that range
that I felt was comfortable for me.
So having these devices
be able to just give us that little push that we need,
I think is so awesome.
I was definitely very impressed
with this as a dive computer.
Now having actually gone through the course
and understanding what a dive computer actually is,
I mean in theory, like I understood it,
but I didn't actually understand
until I was under the water.
And this started blinking for the first time,
telling me that I was at my safety stop.
So one of the things that I realized while I was underwater,
I did have two dive computers,
just because you should always have a backup no matter what.
The thing that I noticed though,
is the first day that I dove,
I had been learning everything in meters
and my watch was in feet.
I didn't really know how many feet were in a meter,
which is probably something that I should have known.
I didn't, but I did have the other dive computer on,
so I was doing a little comparing here.
So all that to be said,
I finally understand the appeal of the Apple Watch Ultra.
I am obsessed with the Apple Watch Ultra
way more than I was when I first got it.
I'd love to hear from you guys though.
What is your biggest fear?
I feel like honestly water is and was my biggest fear,
but I definitely feel so much better
having kind of conquered that and knowing
that a lot of these things is mind over matter.
Always easier said than done,
but I highly recommend it and I hope that some of you
can get to experience this incredible underwater world.
Like I have just scratched the surface.
Like there's so many places
that I can go and dive and explore.
And being underwater with these fish and these sea life,
it's like an out-of-body experience,
'cuz it's like you don't belong there,
like you are in their world.
You have to respect
and there's like this weird, unspoken understanding
when you're just kind of like eye to eye
with a sea creature.
They're like, I see you,
I know you're not supposed to be here,
but I accept you and I'm gonna swim around you.
It was lit, it was actually life changing.
I say that about a lot of things,
but this is definitely an experience that I don't regret
and I can't wait for more experiences.
There's gonna be so many cool videos
that I'm gonna be able to make underwater
and not only like this opens up a whole new world
of SCUBA and diving tech.
Oh my gosh, I can't wait.
If you guys are divers,
please, I would love to hear any advice you have,
great places to dive, gear that I should check out.
I am so excited for this new hobby
and I'm so excited to be a part of the community.
I've been watching a ton of videos
and there's so many cool videos
of people doing incredible things,
diving in amazing locations,
and now like getting into underwater housing,
like different camera.
Oh my gosh, this is,
we're going down a complete other trajectory.
Thank you guys for watching.
This was supposed to be an Apple Watch video
about how I've been liking the Apple Watch,
but I feel like it led me to a new, really cool hobby.
So yeah, the Apple Watch Ultra,
I guess you could say it changed my life.
Is that a click bait title
or is that just, are we reaching?
I'm not sure.