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Old 07-06-2018, 11:16 AM   #8
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Re: new dive watch

I broke down and got one (even with discount it was steep for me) after flooding to two F10's in a row. The Garmin charges through the case in a special cradle so it should be impossible to flood, there is no battery to change.

The GPS feature does work as advertised, and if you want a 'smart watch/fitbit' that syncs to your phone and counts your steps and reminds you to move, gets email notifications etc it does all that, too... I turned that off since I like a watch to be seen and not heard, I can manage my own activity thank you.

Battery life is decent but not the same as an old school dive watch. I got 20 hours in dive mode, and it gets several days in watch mode. Recharges in 2 or 3 hours.

I was most excited about the HR monitor. This is mixed and I need to investigate further but initially it seemed to work properly, I wore it teaching in a pool and for some workouts. Lately however I noticed it being sometimes off--did not properly respond to extremely low HR when testing in ocean and wearing it in the gym it was way off, wasn't reporting elevated HR. Wrist based sensors are not known to be the best and I seem to be hitting limits with this one. I have friends though who are very happy with the HR feature.

It sends your entire dive profile to your phone so you can see graphs of HR, depth, and temperature which is convenient.

As a freedive watch and watch with GPS features, I can't complain. My F10's never could even keep time (although they worked for diving fine).

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