JXT71
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I've had one of the Garmin Tactix watches for a few years now. I really like it. It does all the fancy stuff it's advertised to - like telling the time (AND date!). The GPS in particular is very useful for my job around forest fires where pathfinding, navigation, and relaying of coordinates and area calculations is important. Having an extra compass and altimeter built along with that is just icing on the cake.
More impressive to me is that it does all this after I've subjected it to dirt, gravel, mud, volcanic dust, tree sap, physical trauma, blood, hot ash, fire, and even a shallow dive or two. It still tells me the time (AND date!) and can cough up a perfectly usable GPS location. I have not been kind to the sapphire screen, and that thing looks as pristine as the day I took it out of the box.
So now the important question: Would you Mk2 owners trust your watch and the information it gives you as a primary computer on a technical dive after daily use and repeated exposure as described above?
As I start to eyeball technical diving again, I need a backup computer that can at least go into gauge mode - and ideally give me workable info if my Perdix AI decides to not play anymore while underwater. If I was able to shove a depth gauge into my Tactix watch and use that, I would. Unfortunately Garmin seems to be pursuing the tacti-cool route with the line, so now I'm taking a second look at the Descent. I plan to use it as a backup computer for technical diving in addition to a daily-use smartwatch that does everything my current one does... but it needs to be able to endure what i typically subject my Tactix to.
Edit: I'm aware of @Hoag posting an eerily similar question earlier today, but I think mine is just different enough to keep it as its own thread.
More impressive to me is that it does all this after I've subjected it to dirt, gravel, mud, volcanic dust, tree sap, physical trauma, blood, hot ash, fire, and even a shallow dive or two. It still tells me the time (AND date!) and can cough up a perfectly usable GPS location. I have not been kind to the sapphire screen, and that thing looks as pristine as the day I took it out of the box.
So now the important question: Would you Mk2 owners trust your watch and the information it gives you as a primary computer on a technical dive after daily use and repeated exposure as described above?
As I start to eyeball technical diving again, I need a backup computer that can at least go into gauge mode - and ideally give me workable info if my Perdix AI decides to not play anymore while underwater. If I was able to shove a depth gauge into my Tactix watch and use that, I would. Unfortunately Garmin seems to be pursuing the tacti-cool route with the line, so now I'm taking a second look at the Descent. I plan to use it as a backup computer for technical diving in addition to a daily-use smartwatch that does everything my current one does... but it needs to be able to endure what i typically subject my Tactix to.
Edit: I'm aware of @Hoag posting an eerily similar question earlier today, but I think mine is just different enough to keep it as its own thread.