Hello Mk1 community, first post of I'm sure many, just got my Mk1 and will be diving with it weekly and will try to help developers with any feedback I can provide, so entering tank pressure when on PSI it will take you 45 minutes rolling thru to get to 3700 , this is at least on android version ciq.forums.garmin.com/.../1359237.jpg
@Tato I agree with you, but ... 4 months ago I was very excited - Descent MK1, finally one device I can use it for all my activities, now 4 months latter I'm pretty much disappointed, device still has quite a few flaws that could be easily solved with firmware fixes, but Garmin is just irreverently irresponsible when the owners of this device ask for solutions to the problems. For a device, costing 1000+ EUR, we would expect a little more responsiveness from the manufacturer!
@everyone I can totally feel your frustration obviously I'm on your exact shoes I just want to point out a few things, Garmin is a huge company a there's a team for our MK1 these guys are not only going through our complaints but thousands of error reports that we never see, I am commercial level diver, will not be getting into my experience level, but I have a programming, coding background as well and let me tell you folks these guys are anything but scratching their butt, they are working hard at making your watch better every day, could it be faster? Can they add more people to their program? It's not that easy, and more over those guys are in no way in charge of keeping us up to date with what's going down... you don't want them doing customer service... I am sure most of you still brag about the watch whenever anyone at a social event tries to put it down ;) anyway, let's make it constructive, let's help them and not make this forum a whinning punching bag, if you weren't ready to take the risk.... shouldn't have... now that you did...
I am sure most of you still brag about the watch whenever anyone at a social event tries to put it down ;) anyway, let's make it constructive, let's help them and not make this forum a whinning punching bag, if you weren't ready to take the risk.... shouldn't have... now that you did...
Actually I do not show off my Descent at social events, and recommend people look elsewhere for a primary dive computer. Based on my experiences, and the piss poor support from Garmin, I frankly do not 100% trust the Descent. Now I was very gung ho on this originally, but Garmin seems to be stuck in neutral when it comes to addressing issues with the Descent. Or at least they are completely useless in communicating anything to the owners. Yes I did expect a few issues, but thought like any responsible company Garmin would address these in a timely fashion. Glaciers move faster than Garmin has moved in addressing the issues with the Descent. The worst part is that they do not appear to really care about input from the users of this product.
[True North - Modern instruments point to TN, such as in aircrafts and consistency is required. Regardless, where you dive (Monterrey) magnetic declination is 10m over 100m swim in a straight line. Now which use case you can't address with TN compass?
10M difference over 100M swim, well in 2-3 meter viz you might never find your dive buddy again. But you have thousands of dives and I am sure you have never been separated from your dive buddy. Though in the real world, new divers get separated all the time and we teach the to trust their compass, of course that assumes the compass can point in the right direction.
New divers tend to fixate on their compass and not pay attention to where their buddy is, so separation is not uncommon early on. I have had students on an out and back navigation exercise swim right over the rest of the class and keep on going because they are so fixated on their compass. Now this tends to get better as they get more experience, but the compass needs to work correctly to begin with.
Separation happens even with so called “experienced” divers. Typically when I’m doing training dives in the quarry, I have the students use buddy lines during the reciprocal dive and the direct bearing course (or using a F/F with the line extended during the DB course).
It is up to the DM or Instructor to maintain “global awareness” and “direct control” to avoid separation and/or buoyancy issues.
