15.19: open water fixed or not?

I'm sorry to hear that. It sounds like this expensive triathlon watch is not suitable for open water swims. The frustration is increasing! 

This watch (and its little brother the 255) is a trainwreck. They will never fix all of the major issue before the end of the lifecycle for this product.

Something similar is happening for the distance walked during golf

forums.garmin.com/.../golf-walking-distance-odometer-is-broken

I did a open water swim yesterday. Pace is not very accurate. It changes every few seconds from 2:00 min to 1:40. 

The most annoying part is that they fix stupid thing like emoticons, bring a bunch of useless upgrades (broken too LOL), and yet, a core activity like swimming receive little attention...

After all those watches (swim, forerunners 35/45/55) they should have learned how to record swim metrics. And yet each time is like a new start from scratch.

This watch does not what the garmin advertises. We should all ask for a refund at the same time, that should get their attention!

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Have you reviewed Tips to Improve Accuracy of Open Water Swim Activities?

If you've already tried out the tips, I'm happy to investigate. Please let me know if I have permission to reach out via email to gather examples. 

The problem isn't the accuracy of GPS reception (which that page talks about): the track looks correct, and, if read out with external tools, has the correct length. But the watch recorded distance is incorrect and does not match.

There are many past threads about this exact problem, e.g. https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-955-series/298162/open-water-swim-distance-differs-from-the-track-recorded-todays-swimrun-352m-vs-approx-750m-unacceptable

One consequence of this is that pace for open water swimming is always completely off, in my case it's always 30s/100m slower than reality.

Notice that the above topic is almost 1 year old by now.

I agree, the GPS is very accurate.Our coastline is pretty rocky, I enjoy going around small islands, and I can clearly see the track matching my swim.

I do see small 40-50m segments where the watch doesn't record track points, but they are not likely to increase the distance.

As I said above the watch recorded 5.3km, the exported GPX is only 4.33km. The tracks look exactly the same.I'm probably not a bad swimmer, but 2.49m/stroke seems a bit like a stretch. A lot of the other dynamics dont look realistic either,

f18 to 107strokes/min, I can guaranty I've never moved my arms at 107s/min...Calories make no sense, -1/2 since the lat update?swolf can not be right

Be nice to have all this fixed (pool too, doesn't work either)