Hi Garmin Are there any way you could incorporate the SI data on the Garmin standard watch faces? Rather than have to click on the widget to access our surface interval data after a dive. At least a 24hr SI info on the watch face is highly appreciated!

But I don’t care about 12 hours. I want to know when my SI is an hour and how long I have to wait before it is a hour.

When I learned to dive it was always recommended to have a SI of at least an hour between dives. Perhaps that is no longer recommended.

Hi Garmin-Nate

Thank you for responding, however I’m not too sure how and where to reply to your PM. So I would just do it here.

Yes please and I’m sure we would like to have the SI data info to be incorporated to the Garmin standard watch face as most who uses this watch are avid divers, DM’s and also instructors who does daily repetitive dives for work. As any other sports. 

So a quick view of our SI data on the standby watch face would be highly appreciated. Just like we can customize and add no-fly, steps, intensity minutes, calories, burned datas etc on the Garmin standard watch face.

Hence we would like to put forward a request to the engineers for us to have the SI data feature as an option to add it to the Garmin standard watch face. Rather than us have to click on the SI widget to see our SI info. 

Not really a big issue but certainly would be convenient and I supposed it is a standard feature for all dive computers out there in the market.

Thank you and safe diving!

I can’t attest to what other agencies recommend but under NAUI, it is still an hour. I understand the OP request and I don’t disagree with him. But even the SIT widget, after the 1st hour, it only counts by hours anyway. 

Surface interval, even if it only counts hours after the first hour, is a far more useful datum than No Fly.

How often does the average diver fly? What responsible diver is going to dive less than 24 hours before a booked flight? Note that in the vast majority of cases, flights are booked more than 24 hours in advanced. A No Fly datum on your watch isn’t going to tell you anything more than you should already know.

atj777 said:

What responsible diver is going to dive less than 24 hours before a booked flight?

Unfortunately, this is one of the most forgotten things. I’ve been teaching for awhile and one thing I’ve learned is that within the first 3 months after completing their certification course, the students forget a majority of their academic training (use it or lose it).

Most of the consumers in my area become certified to dive on vacation and don’t have the desire to dive in the Great Lakes, so they only end up diving once a year. Things come natural to you because you’re an experienced diver but most others, it does not.

Odie21 said:

Unfortunately, this is one of the most forgotten things. I’ve been teaching for awhile and one thing I’ve learned is that within the first 3 months after completing their certification course, the students forget a majority of their academic training (use it or lose it).

But these same divers are not going to check a No Fly indicator on their dive computer.  Why would they, that isn't even in the training?

Also, given it doesn't even display by default, they aren't going to be able to work out how to get the Mk1 to display it.

On every dive trip I have ever done, the operator ensures that all divers have a 24 hour surface interval before flying.  Even these once a year divers are unlikely to ever need a No Fly indicator on their dive computer.

Yes it is recommended to surface for an hour or even more to off-gas as much as you can for people who do deep repetitive dives. Well depending on the dive profile they do and the conservatism their watch is set at.

A minimum surface interval can also be calculated according to what your divecomputer conservatism is set at. MK1 doesn’t have this feature in the plan dive app yet but maybe one day it will. If we pursue it I guess.

Anyway an SI info on the watch face is handy to have for now, so divers can have a quick glance before they can hear on and jump back into the water for their next repetitive dives than having to click on the SI widget.

To me, SI and No-Fly is kinda same same but totally different!

cheers and safe diving!

atj777 said:

On every dive trip I have ever done, the operator ensures that all divers have a 24 hour surface interval before flying.

Unfortunately, this isn’t the case in other parts of the world. 3 months ago, I had a situation with a diver that was certified 10 years ago (different dive shop) that went to the Florida Keys w/ his family. On a Tuesday, he did a morning, afternoon and a night dive. He proceeded to get on a plane at 5am Wednesday morning. Unfortunately, his wife didn’t call until Saturday to ask us why he had all of these particular symptoms (DCS). Long story short, while he forgot about the 24hr rule. It’s not the dive operators responsibility, it’s that of the diver.

As an Instructor, I really wish there was a recertification course required every “x” amount of years.

Anyway an SI info on the watch face is handy to have for now, so divers can have a quick glance before they can hear on and jump back into the water for their next repetitive dives than having to click on the SI widget.

Exactly, which is why I have been asking for Surface Interval to be more easily accessed.

Odie21 said:

Unfortunately, this isn’t the case in other parts of the world. 3 months ago, I had a situation with a diver that was certified 10 years ago (different dive shop) that went to the Florida Keys w/ his family. On a Tuesday, he did a morning, afternoon and a night dive. He proceeded to get on a plane at 5am Wednesday morning. Unfortunately, his wife didn’t call until Saturday to ask us why he had all of these particular symptoms (DCS). Long story short, while he forgot about the 24hr rule. It’s not the dive operators responsibility, it’s that of the diver.

But this diver would not have looked at a No Fly indicator on his dive computer which has been my whole point.  It is a useless piece of information.