Garmin · Awareness
Technology that keeps the whole team connected.
Most dive safety is reactive. Something goes wrong, then you find out. Garmin flips that. Real-time air, depth, position, and messaging turn a group of separate divers into a connected team, so trouble is caught early instead of discovered too late. This is the awareness layer that makes safety proactive.
The boat sees networked divers below.
Underwater, divers stay linked by acoustic sonar ... watch to watch, and up to a surface buoy. The buoy adds GPS and relays each diver's position, depth, and air to the boat in real time. Above the water it is radio and satellite. Below, it is SubWave sonar. The buoy detects up to 8 networked divers wearing compatible Descent computers paired with a Descent T2 transceiver, within about 100 m and line of sight.*
* Some compatible dive computers can receive, but not send, messages. Conditions such as surface, waves, chop, objects and diver position can obstruct the signal and reduce range; for more details, visit Garmin.com/subwave.
On the wrist, on every dive
What every diver carries into the water.
These are the screens you see at the event. Real data, real dives. This is what try-before-you-buy actually feels like.
See your buddy's air
Your tank and your teammates' tanks on one screen. You know who is running low before they have to signal it. Each diver needs a Descent dive computer paired to a Descent T2 transceiver.
DiveView™ Maps
GPS and marking the entry and exit work at the surface only. The DiveView maps, with their depth contours, can be viewed while you dive. Mark the entry topside, follow the contours below, and get back to the boat.
Dive Readiness
Sleep, stress, and recovery roll up into one readiness score. The watch tells you when your body is ready to dive.
Message a buddy underwater
A short message from one wrist to another. 'Are you okay?' answered without surfacing, without guessing. It requires both divers to have a Descent dive computer paired to a Descent T2 transceiver.
The connective tissue
The gear that connects the whole dive.
Descent watch and transmitter
A dive computer on the wrist and a regulator transmitter together stream depth, position, and air consumption. The diver knows. The boat knows too when a Descent S1 buoy is also in use.
Get yours today →inReach Satellite Communicator
A required device, not a watch feature. Out past cell coverage, one button on the inReach sends GPS coordinates and an emergency message over satellite from the surface. The signal reaches help even when nothing else can.
Get yours today →Descent buoy and sonar
Towed at the surface, the buoy tracks up to 8 networked divers below by sonar. The dive safety officer on the boat sees position and air for those networked divers, and can message a diver to surface.
Get yours today →The connected-safety ecosystem
Three partners, one chain that holds when a dive turns serious.
The training that builds the diver. Rescue skills, awareness, and the judgment to act before the technology ever pings.
See PADI →DAN · Safety netThe people on the other end of the call. When a Garmin distress signal carries GPS and dive status, DAN is built to respond.
See DAN →Descent dive computers, inReach satellite SOS, and the Descent S1 Buoy sonar. The layer that makes networked divers visible and alerts automatic.
You are hereTraining from PADI. The safety net from DAN. The awareness layer from Garmin. Each one is a piece of staying safe in the water, and Garmin is the piece that catches trouble early enough for the other two to matter.