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.