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Please add diving support to the fenix series

Former Member
Former Member over 5 years ago

Hi,

thank you Garmin for introducing the F6 series. The watches are great!

However, with this thread I want to ask for a feature; maybe for the upcoming fenix series.

Would it not be possible to also PROPERLY (no hack) provide the diving modes in upcoming fenix watches?

I can understand that you would like to target the diving segment with the Descent series but I think there are also a lot of users who do outdoor/fitness AND scuba diving. And in my understanding, it should not be that difficult to also include it in the fenix series (the most difficult part should be the water rating and to implement the pressure sensor, or?)

I'm a loyal fenix buyer but I hesitate a bit with buying TWO expensive watches. On the other side, if i would have to pay a bit more on a new fenix watch which would also include the diving modes, i would do it. I don't know, if other users see this similar, but for me I can state this.

Thank your respones.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Descent is actually a Fenix with diving features, but you know it's a little old watch, now. And it gets updates with a lower frequency. Maybe next version Descent comes with Fenix 6 style features and menu. Fenix series may have the same features too, but please just if it won't make them more expensive, 'cos they're already expensive.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    Yes i often heard that the descent is just a fenix plus the diving feature but this isn't exactly true in my opinion. Even in the case of comparing two models with approximately the same age. Isn't it the case that the descent is lacking some features of a comparable fenix?



  • 0 over 5 years ago

    The Descent Mk1 is the equivalent of the Fenix 5x. With its most recent software update to 8.00 (Mk1), it is now in line software wise with the 5x other than the 5x most recent software update.

    The Mk1 has a different housing for WR and is rated EN13319. I would not be surprised if the next version comes out under the MARQ series around CES ‘20. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Odie21

    Not gonna happen. Diving computers are subjected to a much higher level of quality control. Software comes slower because bugs are unacceptable underwater and can cause deaths. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to JRMiler

    Good point (although, the Fenix does have a skydiving activity, haha).

    Also, the Fenix isn't waterproof-rated for diving. It makes the most sense for Garmin to have a separate product for diving, since it tends to require a totally different set of features and requirements than surface-swimming and ground-based activities.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to C.sco

    To be honest, if something goes wrong skydiving you have the rest of your life to try and fix it :)

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    Gutted to discover the Fenix 6 only records up to 7.1m deep.  I was about to buy one... but I spearfish to 12-15m.  So it's useless.  I don't need a dive computer and don't want to buy a new watch on an old (Fenix 5) platform, so am not interested in the Descent Mk1.  

  • +1 over 5 years ago
    • Apnea https://www.apnea.me/ do an after market app for the garmin. They also state the limitation of 7.5m. This needs to be fixed, as those adventure types absailing lava tubes would surely go to 30m below sea level
  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Hi

    I am one of the Beta testers of the ne Garmin Dive App.

    For now, the app continues  to fail, it falls the moment I try to open it. 

    On the other hand, I have discovered that if I disconnect the cell phone from the internet network, it works fairly well. What I got to see about the application was very good, I liked it a lot. 

     

    I really hope that they can solve these problems and add diving activities and apnea to the lines of the Garmin Fenix ​​and the Forerunner 945. I understand that you have the Garmin Descent Mk1, but the truth is that I do not like it, it is very obsolete and I am only going to dive a few times a year, therefore it is not justified to buy a garmin more than 1000 dollars to use it two weeks at year.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I am in the same trouble. I can go diving maybe four times in a year, and I'm not going to buy a new $1000 USD Garmin to use it only two weaks in a year. I think that it's better to buy a Cressi Dive computer or a Suunto.