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GARMIN: The point with Auto dive snooze 1 hr…?

Milosherman
2 months ago

A question to Garmin: in the new sw release a new function Auto dive is introduced, which also includes a Snooze function. One can have the auto dive start to snooze for 1 hr or until midnight. What is the purpose of having a snooze for only 1 hr? And snooze until midnight does the same job as the Pool mode, which also activates auto dive at midnight. 
Couldn’t you have implemented it as on Fenix 8, where Auto dive can be set to Off? There are several of us having been asking for this feature for years, since the introduction of Descent Mk1.

The thing is that many of us use the Descent Mk3 as a day to day watch, a general sports watch and occasionally as a dive computer. And this is how the watch has been marketed, not only as an advanced dive computer. And I guess that many customer, as myself, wear the Descent every day and use it for different activities and perhaps once a year go for diving a couple of weeks.

The really annoying thing is that the during the warm 6 months I use our pool every day and jump in form a swim. And every time the watch starts a dive activity, if I didn’t remember to set it to Pool mode in the morning. And I have to set it in Pool mode every day, during six month. That is 180 times every year…! Really annoying.

I know some people could argue that a dive watch should have the feature to always start a dive when jumping into water. I don’t know if these people only use the Descent when diving, and not otherwise…? In that case they can just leave the auto dive on. Also, it is the divers responsibility to check the gear, including dive computer, when going diving. If the Descent is used by more professional divers, and the Fenix 8 perhaps used by more occasional divers, the occasional divers are expected to turn the dive mode on when going forma dive activity, why shouldn’t the more professional once be able to do that…? They should be even more aware of checking the equipment…

Please include the Auto dive Off in the next update. And if you do not intend to include the same Auto dive off feature as on Fenix 8, can you please explain why…

Thank you.

  • 0 2 months ago

    Just as a workaround until Garmin may implement it:

    If you start the watch in Gauge mode once, it shouldn't record a dive when you jump in the pool, right? And what I remember is that it always uses the last dive activity when you hit the water

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to 6805874-Micha

    Thanks, yes this could be a work around. I will try that. Thank you for the suggestion!

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to 6805874-Micha

    No, didn’t work. The Gauge is recorded as a dive activity in the log…. 
    Another thing, the Gauge screens are a mess with overlapping data fields.

  • 0 2 months ago

    I could see a case of using the 1 hour snooze while on vacation. Say you're diving 2 tanks in the morning, then swimming/snorkeling in the ocean after that and then doing a night dive. You'd just snooze it for an hour before you jump in to swim and not have to remember (and have the "protection against forgetting") to re-enable dive mode.

    Sure, you can go into how everyone should check/be responsible for their gear before they hit the water for a dive but unfortunately reality dictates that's not the case even though it should be. I'm was a bit surprised seeing the F8 having the ability to turn it off indefinitely and that the lawyers allowed that. Fortunately it seems that either way the devices keep the tissue data so it calculates/locks out appropriately even if it doesn't save an activity/dive log. That's probably what satiated the lawyers.

    For one who's used pool mode to cover the swimming/snorkeling case before it was slightly annoying that it'd increment still your dive log counter.

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to chrisallennc

    Yes, the incrementing of the dive log counter was really annoying since I had to use the Pool mode every time I jump into the pool for a swim… And it really amazes me that I do not see more people complaining about the fact that the dive activity starts every time they take a swim in a pool…?

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to Milosherman

    I only go for diving into the water Grinning

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to Milosherman
    Milosherman said:
    And it really amazes me that I do not see more people complaining about the fact that the dive activity starts every time they take a swim in a pool…?

    Maybe they don't complain because they use SWIM activity when they go swimming and it stops auto dive to. be activated as I do.

    To be honest, from main point of view most of complains are because people don't want to understand and learn how tech works, instead of it expect magic. It is only tech which does what was programmed, not reading your mind to predict what you will do.

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to Adam-1972

    Well, that is a stupid response. And a bad solution. I know perfectly the tech. And I know that a started activity stops the auto dive. But I don’t want to have to start an activity every time I jump into the pool to cool down. Do you also start a Walk activity every time you leave your home…?

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to Milosherman

    Really.
    Did you read device spec before you bough it?
    Were you aware that it is dive computer and what function it has?

    If no, don't complain, it is your fault you didn't check what you buying.
    if yes, don't complain, all information were in description, you should be aware how it will work.

    What you don't understand?

    I have nothing against asking for additional functions but complaining about something what was described is just stupidity.

  • 0 2 months ago in reply to Adam-1972

    Yes and yes!

    and it is a feature request many have been discussing since the Mk1.