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

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.

  • I agree, asking for function is something what we should do through proper chanel, complains on user forum will give us nothing.
    Especially with justification "Fenix 8 has it, why Descent don't", there are different product lines and different functions will be always there.

  • Maybe for most people snoozing before they go into the pool is fine and not a big deal.

    Also what's the point of complaining for the 1-hour snooze when there is also an option to snooze until midnight? The 1-hour is handy for people that want to use it.

  • Well, if you go into a pool once a week or even less it probably doesn’t matter. If you remember to set it to snooze when you do…

    But if you have your own pool that you use every day it matters, I promise you. 

    And I guess as Garmin implemented the permanent snooze on Fenix 8, they did it for a reason. 

    Sure, you can argue that Descent is a hard core dive computer only for divers and nothing else. 
    But it is positioned and marketed by Garmin as an all by around and activity watch as well, and mainly used as such I would guess. 

  • Sure but you are describing your own specific use case as something that applies to the majority of users where it's very likely not.

    In your view, most people that bought a descent only dive for one or two weeks a year (highly doubt that) and it would be better if it auto dive was disabled and it should be their own responsibility to start a diving activity on every dive.

    Using the same logic, others will tell you that they bought a smartwatch that is focused on diving and that they'd rather disable it on the rare occasion they dive in a pool, rather than having to enable it manually for every dive, which on top of everything is a safety risk, while forgetting to disable it for a pool is just a hassle.

  • And I guess as Garmin implemented the permanent snooze on Fenix 8, they did it for a reason. 

    Sure, you can argue that Descent is a hard core dive computer only for divers and nothing else. 
    But it is positioned and marketed by Garmin as an all by around and activity watch as well, and mainly used as such I would guess. 

    You are not right, Garmin clearly states:


    As you see, "dive computer with multisport capabilities", not "multisport watch with dive functions".
    As such Descent was from the beginning designed as dive computer what results with software functions development.
    Of course, when Descent was presented Fenix doesn't have dive functions and some of people bought it for daily use and occasional dives but as I wrote earlier, dive functions were well described and worked same way in earliest models.

    And as @7843043 answered you.
    Your case is for most of us not common, and you already answered to it, more typical would be usage of pool couple times per month and there is not a problem to remember to snooze diving or enabling swimming activity for such occasion.

  • I am not going to argue with you. If you do not need   that feature, you would just not use it, being afraid you would forget to activate the auto dive function. 
    Or just ignore this request, it would not bother you if the feature was there, like on the F8.
    Yes, I am talking about my use case, and I know it’s not only me wanting this. 

    I was asking about this feature since the Snooze function was just recently introduced with the recent update on Descent. But without the full functionality as on F8….

    Had the F8 been available when I got my Descent Mk3i, I would probably gone for that one, knowing that the full snooze is on the F8. 

  • I mean there is nothing wrong to ask for a feature it's just the way you put it makes it seem like it's an obvious thing that everyone should be bothered with, while it really isn't.

    I could still argue that not having a "permanent" option is better because I could fat finger the thing and not notice it until it's too late. But personally I think I wouldn't really mind having that setting. Just explaining the reasoning behind it I guess.