Garmin Descent MK2 Computer

Garmin Descent MK1 is a Garmin smartwatch recommended for water sports. The version includes a bright 1.4 ”screen with a resolution of 280x280 pixels, visible in sunlight with a storage capacity of up to 32 GB. Its full size is 52 x 52 x 17.8 mm.

The model Garmin Descent MK1 includes GPS, GLONASS and TOPO mapping functions. It also includes a 3-axis compass, gyroscope and barometric altimeter. With the use of this Garmin dive computer, you can track your heart rate through the pulse and performance scanner and review the smart notifications that you have received on your mobile device. Its system is composed of an alert and vibration system that keeps you informed while you are underwater. Includes the Garmin Pay application to pay.

During your dives you can choose the modes with one or more gases, planning these activities through the device. Its capacity allows you to store up to 200 dives and shares these achievements through the Garmin Connect community. The autonomy of this equipment is up to 50 days in watch mode, 16 days in smart mode, 35 days in GPS expedition mode, 80 hours in diving mode and 96 hours in GPS mode4.
The Dive Computer For Both Your Worlds. This is the advanced, watch-style dive computer that comes with multisport training and smart features. If you want air integration, take a look at Descent Mk2i.


Features:

- Choose from multiple dive modes for your underwater adventure.
- Measure your performance, and track your stats above water.
- More sports apps, such as golfing and skiing, mean more ways to play.
- This smart dive computer features Garmin Pay™, music and notifications.
- Share and review dives in the Garmin Dive™ app.
- The battery in your Garmin device is simply unmatched by other smartwatches.

DIVE MODES:
- Get multiple dive modes for single and multiple gas dives (including nitrox and trimix), gauge, apnea, apnea hunt and closed-circuit rebreather.

CUSTOMISABLE DIVE MODES:
- Add additional screens for each dive mode that features the fields you want to see.

SURFACE MULTI-GNSS:
- Track your entry and exit1 points with advanced satellite connectivity.

DIVE LOG:
- Store and review data for up to 200 dives — and share via the Garmin Dive app.

INREACH® COMPATIBLE:
- Pair with inReach satellite communicators and the inReach dive case.

PERFORMANCE METRICS:
- View advanced training metrics that include running dynamics, heat- and altitude-adjusted VO2 max, recovery advisor and more2.

PACEPRO™ TECHNOLOGY:
- A first-of-its-kind feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.

SPORTS APPS:
- Use preloaded activity profiles for trail running, swimming, running, biking, hiking, rowing, skiing, golfing and more.

ANIMATED WORKOUTS:
- Easily follow animated workouts for cardio, strength, yoga and Pilates. View workouts right on your watch screen.

TOPOACTIVE EUROPE AND SKI MAPS:
- Use TopoActive Europe maps to navigate your adventures and view run names and difficulty ratings for 2,000 worldwide ski resorts.

ABC SURFACE SENSORS:
- Navigate your next trail with ABC sensors, including an altimeter for elevation data, barometer to monitor weather and 3-axis compass.

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE:
- Optical heart rate2 technology gauges activity intensity as well as heart rate variability to calculate your stress level. It also tracks underwater without a heart rate strap.

PULSE OX SENSOR:
- For altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a Pulse Ox3 sensor uses light beams at your wrist to gauge how well your body is absorbing oxygen.

ALL DAY RESPIRATION:
- Track how you’re breathing throughout the day, during sleep and during breathwork and activities such as yoga.

TURN-BY-TURN NAVIGATION:
- Follow a route or course with help from turn-by-turn directions, which let you know ahead of time when the next turn is coming.

ROUND-TRIP ROUTING:
- Enter a distance you want to travel, and get suggested routes that will bring you back to your starting point. Trendline™ popularity routing helps you find the best local paths.

SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES:
- If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses an incident, assistance and incident detection features4 send your location to emergency services. Feature not available while in dive mode.

MUSIC:
- Store up to 2,000 songs, or access streaming music apps from your compatible services5, including Spotify®, Deezer and Amazon Music.

GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS:
- Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution6 through participating providers.

SMART NOTIFICATIONS:
- Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your wrist when paired with a compatible device.

CONNECT IQ™ STORE:
- Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store.


Specifications:

General:
- Lens material: Sapphire crystal
- Bezel material: Stainless steel
- Case material: Fibre-reinforced polymer with metal rear cover
- QuickFit™ watch band compatible: Yes (26 mm)
- Strap material: Silicone
- Physical size: 52 x 52 x 17.8 mm
- Colour display: yes
- Display size: 1.4” (35.56 mm) diameter
- Display resolution: 280 x 280 pixels
- Display type: Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
- Weight: Silicone band: 103.8 g

Battery life:
- Smartwatch: Up to 16 days
- GPS: Up to 48 hours
- GPS and Music: Up to 15 hours
- Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 96 hours
- Dive mode: Up to 80 hours
- Expedition GPS Activity: up to 35 days
- Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 50 days
- Water rating: Dive (100 meters)
- Memory/history: 32 GB

Clock features:
- Time/date: yes
- GPS time sync: yes
- Automatic daylight saving time: yes
- Alarm clock: yes
- Timer: yes
- Stopwatch: yes
- Sunrise/sunset times: yes

Health monitoring:
- Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second): yes
- Daily Resting Heart Rate: yes
- Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts: Yes (high and low)
- Respiration rate (24x7): yes
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation: Yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)
- Fitness age: Yes (in app)
- Body Battery™ Energy Monitor: yes
- All-day stress tracking: yes
- Relaxation reminders: yes
- Relaxation breathing timer: yes
- Sleep: yes
- Hydration: Yes (in Garmin Connect™)
- Menstrual Cycle: Yes (in Garmin Connect™)

Sensors:
- GPS: yes
- GLONASS: yes
- Galileo: yes
- Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor: yes
- Barometric altimeter: yes
- Compass: yes
- Gyroscope: yes
- Accelerometer: yes
- Thermometer: yes
- Depth sensor: yes
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor: Yes (with Acclimation)

Daily smart features:
- Connectivity: Bluetooth® Smart, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
- Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps): yes
- Smart notifications: yes
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only): yes
- Calendar: yes
- Weather: yes
- Battery Saver - customisable low power watch: yes
- Controls smartphone music: yes
- Plays and controls watch music: yes
- Music storage: Up to 2,000 songs
- Find my phone: yes
- Find my watch: yes
- VIRB® camera remote: yes
- Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
- Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile: yes
- Garmin Pay™: yes

Safety and Tracking Features:
- LiveTrack: yes
- Group LiveTrack: yes
- Live Event Sharing: yes
- Incident Detection during select activities: yes
- Assistance: yes

Tactical features:
- Dual grid coordinates: yes

Diving features:
- Dive activity maximum operating depth: 100 metres
- Single-gas mode: yes
- Multi-gas mode: yes
- Gauge mode: yes
- APNOEA mode: yes
- APNOEA hunt mode: yes
- Decompression model: Bühlmann ZHL-16c with gradient factors
- Nitrox support: yes
- Trimix support: yes
- Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR): yes
- Gas mixes: Air, Nitrox and Trimix, up to 100% O2; 1 bottom gas and up to 11 deco and/or backup gasses.
- PO2: Up to 2.0 with customisable deco PO2 setting
- Auto start/end dive: yes
- Custom end-dive timeout: Yes (20s to 10 m)
- Safety Stop: Yes (customisable off/3min/5min)
- Deep Stops: Yes (using custom gradient factors)
- Customisable conservatism: Yes (low/medium/high or custom using gradient factors)
- Dive ascent/descent rate indicator: yes
- Automatic altitude adjustment: yes
- No fly time: Yes (with 24hr countdown)
- Dive planner: Yes (basic NDL + multi-gas deco planner)
- Tides: yes
- Backlight: Yes (configurable time and intensity; auto-on at depth)
- Automatically saves dive entry and exit locations: yes
- Custom dive data screens: yes
- Sync dive log to Garmin Dive™ Mobile app: yes
- Alerts & alarms: Audible and vibration alarms for ascent rate, PO2, CNS/OTU, NDL, deco, gas switching. Customisable (up to 40) audible and/or vibration per dive mode, based on depth or time
- 3-axis dive compass: Yes (with adjustable heading, quick change to 90R, 90L and reciprocal). Indicates degrees and direction back to set heading
- Missed Deco Lockout: Yes (can be disabled prior to dive with user acknowledgement)
- Residual Tissue Loading Reset: Yes (on the surface with user acknowledgement)
- Surface diver status widget: Yes (surface interval, N2/HE loading, CNS, OTU and tissue compartment status)

Boating features:
- Available boating profiles: Boating
- Built-in barometer and tide tables: yes

Activity tracking features:
- Step counter: yes
- Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it): yes
- Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal): yes
- Calories burned: yes
- Floors climbed: yes
- Distance travelled: yes
- Intensity minutes: yes
- TrueUp™: yes
- Move IQ™: yes

Fitness equipment/gym:
- Available gym activity profiles: Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Pilates and Yoga
- Cardio workouts: yes
- Strength workouts: yes
- Yoga workouts: yes
- Pilates workouts: yes
- On-screen workout animations: yes
- Automatic rep counting: yes

Training, planning and analysis features:
- HR zones: yes
- HR alerts: yes
- HR calories: yes
- % HR max: yes
- % HRR: yes
- Recovery time: yes
- Auto max HR: yes
- HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels): Yes (with compatible accessory)
- HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices): yes
- Respiration rate (during exercise): yes
- GPS speed and distance: yes
- Customisable screen(s): yes
- Customisable activity profiles: yes
- Auto Pause®: yes
- Interval training: yes
- Advanced workouts: yes
- Downloadable training plans: yes
- Power Modes - customisable in-activity battery settings: yes
- Auto Lap®: yes
- Manual lap: yes
- Configurable lap alerts: yes
- Heat and altitude acclimation: yes
- VO2 max: yes
- Training status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend): yes
- Training load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC):
- Training load focus: yes
- Training effect (aerobic): yes
- Training effect (anaerobic): yes
- Primary benefit (Training Effect labels): yes
- Customisable alerts: yes
- Audio prompts: yes
- Finish time: yes
- Virtual partner:yes
- Race an activity: yes
- Auto multisport activities: yes
- Multi-sport: yes
- Course guidance: yes
- Garmin Live Segments: yes
- Strava Live Segments: yes
- Round-trip course creator (running/cycling): yes
- Trendline™ popularity routing: Yes (available as a wearable map theme)
- Touch and/or button lock: yes
- Hot keys: yes
- Auto scroll: yes
- Activity history on watch: yes
- Physio TrueUp: yes

Running features:
- Available run profiles: Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running
- GPS-based distance, time and pace: yes
- Running dynamics: Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of ´bounce´ in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length): Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry): Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Stride length (real time): Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute): yes
- Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level): yes
- Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue): Yes (with compatible accessory)
- PacePro™ Pacing Strategies: yes
- Run workouts: yes
- Race predictor: yes
- Foot pod capable: yes

Golfing features:
- Preloaded with 41k courses worldwide: yes
- Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green): yes
- Yardage to layups/doglegs: yes
- Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course): Automatic
- Digital scorecard: yes
- Custom targets: yes
- Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit): yes
- Garmin AutoShot™: yes
- Full vector map: yes
- Auto CourseView updates: yes
- Green View with manual pin position: yes
- Hazards and course targets: yes
- PinPointer: yes
- PlaysLike distance: yes
- Handicap scoring: yes
- TruSwing™ compatible: yes
- Round timer/odometer: yes
- Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory): yes

Outdoor recreation features:
- Available outdoor recreation profiles: Hiking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Jumpmaster, Tactical
- Point-to-point navigation: yes
- Breadcrumb trail in real time: yes
- Back to start: yes
- TracBack®: yes
- UltraTrac mode: yes
- Around Me mode: yes
- Elevation profile: yes
- Distance to destination: yes
- Barometric trend indicator with storm alert: yes
- ClimbPro™ ascent planner: yes
- Trail run auto climb: yes
- Vertical speed: yes
- Total ascent/descent: yes
- Future elevation plot: yes
- Preloaded TopoActive Europe maps: yes
- Preloaded ski resort maps: yes
- Downloadable cartography support: yes
- Compatible with BaseCamp™: yes
- GPS coordinates: yes
- Sight ´N Go: yes
- Area calculation: Yes (via Connect IQ™)
- Hunt/fish calendar: Yes (via Connect IQ™)
- Projected waypoint: yes
- Sun and moon information: Yes (via Connect IQ™)
- XERO™ Locations: yes
- Expedition GPS Activity: yes
- Tides: yes

Cycling features:
- Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories): yes
- Courses: yes
- Garmin cycle map (routable cycling-specific street map): yes
- Available cycling profiles: Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Biking, Triathlon
- Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor): yes
- Race an activity: yes
- FTP (Functional threshold power): Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Compatible with Vector™ (power meter): yes
- Power meter compatible: yes
- Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display): yes
- Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar): yes
- Compatible with Varia™ lights: yes
- Speed and cadence sensor support: Yes (ANT+® and Bluetooth® Smart sensors)

Swimming Features:
- Available swim profiles: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swimming/Running
- Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): yes
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): yes
- Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only): yes
- Drill logging (pool swim only): yes
- Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only): yes
- Countdown start: yes
- Pool swim workouts: yes
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate: yes
- Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim): Yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™)

In the Box:
- Descent Mk2, stainless steel with black band
- Black extra-long adjustment strap
- Charging/data cable
- Documentation


Compatible Devices:

- Approach® CT10
- GPSMAP 66i
- inReach® Mini
- inReach® Mini Marine Bundle
- Varia™ Rearview Bike Radar
- Varia™ Smart Bike Lights
- Varia Vision™ In-sight Display
- Vector™ 2
- Vector™ 2S
- Vector™ 3
- Vector™ 3S