“It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No… it’s just an Apple Watch screaming underwater to save its owners’ life.” Did that sound confusing? Well, let me tell you a story.
Recently, a 26-year-old Mumbai techie, Kshitij Zodape, took a dive off the coast of Pondicherry. Everything was chill—until it wasn’t. His weight belt came loose, and he started ascending rapidly (underwater wardrobe malfunctions are scary!).
Now I’m no diving expert, but here’s the thing: ascending too fast underwater can potentially do a lot of damage, like rupture your lungs, for starters. So it was a life–or–death situation that Mr. Zodape found himself in, under the water. However, the Apple Watch slapped on his wrist stepped in and said, “Not on my watch.”
As he shot upward, out of control, his Apple Watch sensed the rapid ascent. Thankfully, Kshitij was using the Oceanic+ app during the dive, which triggered the warnings immediately—flashing instructions to stop. When he couldn’t, the watch’s emergency sirens went off, catching the attention of his dive instructor, who rushed in and got him to safety. Is this what having a JARVIS feels like?
After the whole ordeal was over, Kshitij did what any grateful customer would do. He wrote to Tim Cook. And Tim actually replied, because obviously, even CEOs can’t ignore someone saying, “Your product literally saved my life.”
The moral of the story is—next time you go diving, don’t just double-check your oxygen tank, also make sure your wrist has the most paranoid piece of tech on it.
