GarminDescent Mk2i/Descent T1 Bundle, Smaller-Sized Watch-Style Dive Computer with Air Integration, Multisport Training/Smart Features, Titanium Gray. (010-02132-02)

Never expected a company like Garmin to do what I always thought Casio was going to do first. Battery life is extraordinary considering it is communicating with the transmitter all the time. Diving 5 days a week cleaning boats only leaves me wanting for a deeper setting to start dives, it is 4 feet and can not be changed. Many times it ends my dives because of it, but it is the nature of my work, when cleaning large boats it works as expected. Oh, and I go though my week with one precautionary charge in between, it can possibly last the five days with 6 hours of diving a day. The tracking of other aspects of your life such as breathing rate is impressive, and even if it were to not be perfectly accurate, it is still a great support tool for health and sports. Speaking of which, it is ready for ALL of them, from playing golf to jumping out of an airplane, to holding your breath to freedive. And it can be set in indoor modes for gym use too. Pretty sure there will be detractors, there always are, but this things really does it all with a high level of care, and customization.The edge (bezel) of the watch is soft enough to scratch with relative ease, the glass however is all but bullet proof. It would be desirable to have more and better options to protect this high end product from cosmetic blemishes for everyday use, but it's not a perfect world, is it?

So far love it. I wear glasses and have lenses in my dive goggles. So some of the reading is hard to do. I accidentally passed NDL, the screens switched but it became less intuitive. NOT the time I want less intuition. So at 110ft, 1 NDL, heading up and Deco popped. Your normal screens disappear and new ones take their place. Which would be fine but you don't get to practice with them in advance, so you are learning what the watch is doing in a Deco mode. Sort of insane. Anyway, I figured it out so I suspect many might. Just pay careful attention and take a minute to read the screens (from 3 to 2 as I recall) and follow the instructions on stops and times. Other than "surprise, all your screens are changing (and yes I read ahead of time on this just in case)" it's a great watch. The finish scuffs a bit easily, but it is a dive watch mostly (for me) and nothing remains as if new. Ah, one more minor issue. I have the titanium band. It fits my wrist. But the expansion for diving makes it VERY tight on a 7mm wetsuit and impossible if you wear gloves. The band expander, to avoid manual adjustments for diving and non-diving, needs 3mm more or less greater opening.

I absolutely love this dive watch with the integration, but what could have been a perfect solution for an SSI diver got shut down by Garmin for some reason. SSI "Scuba Schools International" was beta testing the ability to import Garmin dive data via the website. This worked wonderfully and made moving the data into SSI so easy. I even managed to convince dive mates that this was the watch they wanted over the weekend. Sadly I'll have to go back and tell them that Garmin has shut off this feature. Just recently this is what popped up on the SSI site."Unfortunately, the connection to the dive data has been switched off by Garmin. You can still transfer data already transmitted by Garmin into the SSI Logbook. Garmin wants to focus on their main sports and therefore no longer offers an interface for the non-main sports (such as flying, motorsports, horseback riding, diving)."I know I can export Garmin data into excel, fiddle with the fields and do a lot of convoluted hoop jumping to get my data but at that point I'll just manually enter it... Why oh why, Garmin you were on your way to the perfect solution for diving =(