Hello everyone!
There were discussion on the matter a long time ago but the problem stil exists.
There is actually a BUG in a matter of how the device follows a freediving activity: It starts apnea dive only at 1.3 meter depth and it stops apnea dive at 1 meter depth - and this is totally wrong!
It seems like nobody knows that freedivers who don't live by the ocean spend 99% of their dives at pool. A usual pool with depth starting 1.3 meters and very rarely ending 5 meters. So, according to this fact, most of the apnea trainings are failed to be activated by device and failed to be analised later by a freediver.
Why am I saying that it is actually a BUG with dive start/stop triggers? Yes, it's written in manual and because of this it's frustrating the most of all! How many people are there in the whole world who can possibly finish their dive (a freedive) while simultaneously have their watches at 1 meter depth??? This is against human anatomy (most of the humans)!! A BIG secret to tell: human cannot finish dive while staying at 1 meter depth, If you are at 1 meter depth you still cannot breathe - your dive is NOT finished.
Why am I speaking about dive finishing trigger first of all? Assume that freediver is lucky enough to train in a pool with depth 1.5-3 meters and he can dive to the depth of 1.3 m from start. Device starts to count his dive: "All right buddy you're at the depth, I'm watching you." Freediver is coming to the lap end and turns around continuing his dive. At this moment in 90% of times freediver is floating up because of the speed loss to the less than 1 meter depth. And device: "Congratulations buddy, you're at the 1 meter depth, your dive is finished, you can breathe normally!". Freediver is continuing his dive after turn, going back to 1.3 m depth because - "guess what?!" his dive is not even close to ending. What we have at the end? 2-5 dives on the device instead of actual 1 dive - totally spoiled and impossible to to be analised properly! Why is Garmin doing this to us, freedivers? Why does Garmin hates us so much??
Of course, the most logical problem solving decision would be allowing manual setting up of dive start/stop depth for Apnea dive modes. Let's assume, that for some unknown reason (Garmin hates freedivers?) it's not acceptable. Than the solution could be in changing this parameters for Apnea modes let's say to 0.7 m depth - start, and 0.3 m depth - finish.
And yes, I know about existence of "Apnea DYN" app, but it's terrible, terrifying, ugly, uncustomizeble, statistics free and not supported anymore! I would like to use my beautiful and almost perfect device with standart apps and options!
Really hope to see a solution for this issue. Be sure, I'm not speaking for myself only, most of freedivers would agree that problem exists and it doesn't allow people to use their devices for training.
