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join dives feature

From time to time a dive is divided into several sections due to short stays (2min) at the surface e.g. while training or forced by barriers.

These sections are counted as separate dives. Is it possible to join these dives in the App as to count as only one?

Thanx

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Europaeer over 3 years ago in reply to Travis +3

you can download the dives as .fit files via logged in under https://connect.garmin.com/:

* select diving in the very left column

* select the respective dives to be exported ('details')

* klick…
Sumo over 1 year ago in reply to 2016618 +2

I had this issue too. It stems from the data being mostly stored in the DiveSummary message, and all of the fit utilities being more generic in nature don't generate this data.

So I wrote my own utility…
DeepWaterLizard over 2 years ago in reply to Europaeer +1

Thank you this worked like a charm.

A few additional tips:

I used https://www.fitfiletools.com/#/combiner#view to combine the files

You must remove the old entries before importing the combined file

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0 Travis over 3 years ago

Was there a reply to this? I have even had my dive get split from going over a reef even though I didn’t break the surface but had to come close to surface to get over reef and continue dive.

0 Europaeer over 3 years ago in reply to Travis

you can download the dives as .fit files via logged in under https://connect.garmin.com/:

* select diving in the very left column

* select the respective dives to be exported ('details')

* klick the gearwheel on the very right up and select export to download

use e.g. FIT File Tools to join the files and import the entire dive to your Connect account via https://connect.garmin.com/

worked for me

0 DeepWaterLizard over 2 years ago in reply to Europaeer

Thank you this worked like a charm.

A few additional tips:

I used https://www.fitfiletools.com/#/combiner#view to combine the files
You must remove the old entries before importing the combined file
Once it has been imported, make sure to change the activity type to the desired one, by default is "Other"
- In my case I switched it to "Diving Single Gas"
You may need to update the description and activity number

0 2016618 over 2 years ago in reply to DeepWaterLizard

Thank you for your post. I am having the same issue, and I tried your solution but it didn't seem to work, because most of the relevant data about the dive, including the time, depth, and other data about the dive profile did not come through in the combined file. I was wondering if anybody else had this issue, and knows a solution. Thank you!

0 8267487 over 1 year ago

Yeah forget about doing that, not possible as of writing. The method described in the thread results in losing most of the data. I resort to keeping the dive in parts as they are and call them " - part 1", " - part 2" etc.

0 khoock over 1 year ago in reply to 8267487

Additionally, dives can be renumbered on Garmin Connect to have the same dive number ie I have two Dive 438, being the first and second parts of the same dive

0 Sumo over 1 year ago in reply to 2016618

I had this issue too. It stems from the data being mostly stored in the DiveSummary message, and all of the fit utilities being more generic in nature don't generate this data.

So I wrote my own utility to combine dives together:

https://github.com/sumoDave/GarminDiveFitAppender

0 Europaeer over 1 year ago in reply to Sumo

thx, which OS does it support?

0 Sumo over 1 year ago in reply to Europaeer

It's written in Java, so should run on any OS you can install a JRE on. But it was written and tested on a Windows platform.

0 7019090 11 months ago in reply to Sumo

Sumo, thank you very much, this worked great for me! I appreciate your efforts!