So I recently upgraded my Garmin Descent mk2 to the Garmin Descent mk3. I love all the extra features of the mk3 and its better battery life, but then I took it diving....
I've taken it on 5 dives now, and no matter how many times I have checked to make sure the setting is 'DISPLAY IS ON', it always reverts back to timing out and going black at 15 seconds.
Having the screen go black underwater every 15 seconds ona dive computer is not only dumb, it is unsafe. As someone who is carrying a large camera system in one hand, or tools for working, having to try to contort your arms together to press a watch button to bring the screen back on to check your depth, ascent rate, deco time etc is really annoying, and completely impractical. I don't want to have to press the watch button every 15 seconds to see how much longer on a safety stop, or more importantly, when checking my ascent rate from depth. I also have found that neither the wrist movement or touchscreen will activate the display underwater.
The Garmin mk2 always had the screen on during diving, and it worked perfectly. Now that I have discovered the mk3 screen won’t stay on whilst diving, I’m regretting this upgrade (downgrade…).
If someone has a fix for this, please share. Or if Garmin read this, please change the diving display setting so that the Garmin Mk3 can actually function as a safe diving computer.
