Freestyle 816 manual Shark Tide Instructions Features, HOW to SET and Operate Current Tide

816 SHARK TIDE™

INSTRUCTIONS

FEATURES:

•CURRENT TIME (HR., MIN., & SEC.)

•DAY/DATE/MONTH/YEAR

•INDICATES PRESENT TIME, TIDE HEIGHT AND DIRECTION

•MOVEABLE CURSOR INDICATES HOURLY TIDE AND DIRECTION FOR PRESENT DAY

•FUTURE TIDE MODE INDICATES TIDE HEIGHT AND DIRECTION FOR 15 YEARS

•CHOOSE FROM FIFTEEN PRE- PROGRAMMED ZONES.

•CHOOSE FROM 128 PRE-

PROGRAMMED BEACHES WITHIN THE FIFTEEN ZONES

•PROGRAM YOUR LOCAL BEACH BREAK IF NOT INCLUDED AMONG THE 128 PRE-

PROGRAMMED BEACHES

•MULTIPLE COUNTDOWN TIMERS

•CHRONOGRAPH WITH SPLIT TIMES

•FOUR DAILY OR ONE TIME ALARMS AND HOURLY CHIME

•DUAL TIME AND OPTIONAL 24- HR. TIME

•WATER-RESISTANT TO 300 FEET

•NIGHT VISION™ ELECTRO- LUMINESCENT BACKLIGHTING

KEY REFERENCES

HOW TO SET TIME 1, DATE, 24-

HOUR FORMAT, AND BEACH LOCATION

From TIME 1 mode, press and hold the LIGHT/SET button for approximately two seconds; the seconds digits will flash.

Pressing the START button will reset the seconds digits to 0. If seconds are 30 or greater, one will be added to the minutes digits.

To set hours digits, press MODE button; hours digits will flash. To advance hours digits, press START button; to retard hours digits press STOP/RESET button; hold for rapid advnce.

To set minutes digits, press MODE button; minutes digits will flash. To advance minutes digits, press START button; to retard minutes digits, press STOP/RESET button; hold for rapid advnce.

Continuing through the time and date setting mode, the setting sequence is seconds, hours, minutes, year, month, date, and 12/24- hour mode.

After 12/24-hour mode is selected, press MODE button; “SET TIDE?” will appear. Press MODE button, and one of the six zone options will appear: Caribbean, East USA, Hawaii, Japan, Mexico, or West USA. Press START button to select your choice of zone.

To set your choice of location or beach break, press MODE button; press START button to select location or beach break of choice.

Press MODE button; if you have selected the Caribbean, Mexico, West USA, or East USA, then DST ON or DST OFF will appear on the display. DST is an abbreviation for daylight savings time. Note: All of the western and eastern coastal states in USA observe DST, however, neither Hawaii nor Japan observe Daylight Savings Time. Note: The DST feature only needs to be activated once by pressing START button; it will adjust automatically thereafter. However, you will still need to adjust the time of day at daylight savings time changes. The DST flag will appear on the display when the DST feature is in the “ON” position.

Press MODE button; “USER OPT” will appear on the display. If your favorite location or beach break is not one of the pre-programmed locations, you may wish to add it. To do this, you will need to know the time difference between the high tide at your favorite beach and the high tide (for the same day) at

the closest pre-programmed beach. This time difference information is usually illustrated on tide calendars or local tide charts, and is indicated for example as (+ or -) 10, 20 or 30 minutes between two beach locations. For example, suppose your favorite beach break is Malibu, which is not pre-programmed in the watch, and your local tide calendar indicates that Malibu tides are (+10) minutes, compared to Los Angeles tides. After entering Malibu as your favorite beach, you would enter (+10) as your offset.

To program your location or beach break, press START button. Press START button again to enter the first letter, then press MODE button to advance to the second letter. If you advance any letter too far, simply press STOP/RESET button to back up. You may enter a total of up to twelve letters.

After entering the last letter of the name of your beach, press MODE button continuously, until the words “NO OFFSET” appear. Press

START button to enter your desired offset. Press LIGHT/SET button to return to TIME 1 mode.

At any time, while in TIME 1 mode, press START button; current tide conditions will appear on the top half of the display.

HOW TO SET AND OPERATE CURRENT TIDE

Press MODE button until “TIDE” appears. Current date will be displayed on the lower half, current daily tide will be displayed on the upper half.

Press START button; and cursor will scroll across tide graph, indicating high, low, rising and falling tide conditions for any hour of the current day.

You may also set tide zone, location, DST, or user option from this mode by pressing and holding LIGHT/SET button for two seconds. Then follow the sequence as outlined in “HOW TO SET TIME 1, DATE, 24-HOUR FORMAT, AND BEACH LOCATION.”

The above graph shows how to read the tide graph.

HOW TO SET AND OPERATE FUTURE TIDE

In this mode you may enter any future date for the next 15 years, to access future tide information for any selected location or beach break. If you desire future tide information for a location other than your previously selected beach, you will need to go back to either TIME 1 mode or TIDE mode, and enter that new location.

Press MODE button until “FUTURE