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Open water mode PLEASE

9572976
over 5 years ago

Please, add the Open Water sport... is necessary for this model. Thank you!

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    This request have been done multiple times here. Adding OWS on the 245 it would be phenomenal, but it seems like Garmin considers this activity an exclusive feature for premium watches, with the only exception for the Instinct model. It’s weird though...

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    that's why i bought garmin swim 2

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    If this was a tri watch I’d agree. But I don’t think it’s an essential.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago

    I've installed Swim sports+ v1.12.1 from the store. Free demo are 7 or 14 days or you can pay 2,45$ for a 1year licence. I've tested it with my Forerunner 245, and I didn't get calories, o r heart rate measures, and distances (and obviously visual  waypoints in the graph) were not acurate due to each time it goes underwater it loses signal... As I have read, watches with better OPEN WATER options, correct this through algorithm that should take more parameters in consideration, so maybe this could be better... Anyway, I correct distance with maps after analyze it...  But it could be better... You can check it in my example below... Obviously I did not make such kind of jumps...  :-(Here you can see even jumps into jetty stones, where obviously I did not were swimming.