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Diving To Aquarius: Doxa Delivers 31 Limited Edition Watches To Fabien Cousteau For Mission 31 (We’re Along For The Dive) On Sunday, Fabien Cousteau and five other aquanauts splashed down to begin a month of living in Aquarius, the world's only underwater habitat, in a history-making endeavor known as Mission 31. On their wrists are limited edition Doxa SUB Mission 31 Professionals. While Doxa built 331 of these Mission 31 Professionals to commemorate and partially fund the project, it delivered 31 of them, serial numbers 2 through 32, to the Aquarius habitat, 65 feet under the Atlantic on Monday, the first full day of the mission. I was lucky enough to tag along on the dive.

“We learned, by happenstance, that during Mission 31 we cannot use digital dive computers on our dives outside the habitat to time our excursions. They lock out, actually get bent!” Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the famous Jacques-Yves Cousteau, explained to me as he fiddled with the bezel of his orange-dialed dive watch. It was the day before he and five other aquanauts were to begin their 31-day stay at the world’s only undersea research lab, Aquarius Reef Base, off the coast of Florida. “There’s no algorithm in any of the commercially available dive computers that will work for us as aquanauts since we’ll be living in a pressurized environment for so long. So it was actually a hidden blessing that Doxa chose to sponsor Mission 31 because these analog watches they’ve provided will serve as our primary bottom timers.” The analog watches Cousteau was referring to were limited edition Mission 31 Professionals that the Swiss brand built to commemorate, and raise funds for, this history-making adventure. Of course, the Cousteau and Doxa names already had history together, as it was Fabien’s grandfather who consulted with Doxa on the creation of its first purpose-built SUB 300T dive watch in the 1960s and whose company, U.S.

Divers, was the official importer of Doxas to America. The Mission 31 Professional, while bearing obvious similarities to those Jacques and his crew wore, has a titanium case, sapphire glass, and a solid link bracelet with expanding clasp – features Cousteau the elder could have only dreamed of. While Doxa built 331 of these Mission 31 Professionals, it delivered 31 of them, serial numbers 2 through 32, to the Aquarius habitat, 65 feet under the Atlantic on Monday, the first full day of the mission. I was lucky enough to tag along on the dive.

It was a choppy, overcast day, with 20-mph winds and six-foot seas, sketchy enough that the topside crew from Florida International University, who was responsible for our safety, wasn’t sure we would be able to get in the water. But we loaded dive and camera gear on the boat, including a $75,000 RED Dragon hi-def video camera, and plowed through soaking swells for the eight-mile journey out to Aquarius. The presence of Navy divers onboard provided a measure of comfort and we were told that in the case where we wouldn’t be allowed to dive, the Navy guys would get the watches delivered no matter what.

When we arrived at the Life Support Buoy that provides all power, water and air to the Aquarius below, the seas laid down enough for a green light for diving. I quickly suited up, along with Doxa representative Ty Alley, and Doxa ambassador and bestselling author Dirk Cussler. Alley quickly moved the 31 watches from an orange waterproof case to a pressurized vessel called a “pot” for transfer down to Aquarius. The pot was painted orange and emblazoned with the Doxa logo but there was little time for ceremony as we scurried to the transom, gave gear one final check and slid into the water. Under the choppy waves, the conditions were considerably calmer and the habitat came into view below us. Alley and Cussler descended, escorting the precious pot while being filmed for posterity. Adams Golf Offset Drivers. Meanwhile, I swam down to Aquarius, peering in the windows and watching the resident six-foot tarpons circle below me.