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[QUOTE="barth, post: 9000486, member: 56645" When you are swimming the watch is on your wrist. Most of the time the watch is underwater. It’s not possible to use gps when swimming with the forerunner on your wrist. The gps is not powerful enough to connect with satellites during swimming,[/QUOTE]
There are some fitness watches than can use GPS to track in open water. I use a Garmin Forerunner 920XT, a watch specifically designed for triathlons, which has an open water swim mode. The GPS is not as accurate because it only measures location when the watch is above water in your swim stroke but it does work (best when you swim straight, it does not like changes in direction very much). Garmin has a few watches with this capability, the 910XT, the 920XT, the 935 and the Swim 2 for example. Of the lot the least expensive is the swim 2 at about $200 US, well above the OPs price range. The capability does exist though.
There are some fitness watches than can use GPS to track in open water. I use a Garmin Forerunner 920XT, a watch specifically designed for triathlons, which has an open water swim mode. The GPS is not as accurate because it only measures location when the watch is above water in your swim stroke but it does work (best when you swim straight, it does not like changes in direction very much). Garmin has a few watches with this capability, the 910XT, the 920XT, the 935 and the Swim 2 for example. Of the lot the least expensive is the swim 2 at about $200 US, well above the OPs price range. The capability does exist though.
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