Garmin Descent MK2S Wrist Dive Computer

Physical & Performance

•Display size: 1.2” (30.4 mm) diameter

•Display resolution: 240 x 240 pixels

•GPS: Yes

•Weightsilicone band: 60 g,case only: 41 g

•Display type sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)

•Battery life:

-Smartwatch: Up to 7 days

-Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 21 days

-GPS: Up to 18 hours

-GPS + Music: Up to 6 hours

-Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 32 hours

-Dive mode: Up to 30 hours

Maps & Navigation

•Memory/History: 32 GB

Features

•"Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only): Yes

•Touch and/or button lock: Yes

•Pilates workouts: Yes

•Preloaded ski resort maps: Yes

•GPS coordinates: Yes

•Live Event Sharing: Yes

•Audio prompts: Yes

•Sleep: yes (Advanced)

•Auto CourseView updates: Yes

•Downloadable training plans: Yes

•Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course): Automatic

•Battery saver (customizable low power watch): Yes

•Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR): 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™)

•Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar): Yes

•Plays and controls watch music: Yes

•APNEA mode: Yes

•Pool swim workouts: Yes

•Multi-gas mode: Yes

•Race an Activity: Yes

•Hot keys: Yes

•Gas mixes: Air, Nitrox and Trimix, up to 100% O2; 1 bottom gas and up to 11 deco and/or backup gasses

•Single-gas mode: Yes

•Activity history on watch: Yes

•On-screen workout animations: Yes

•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)

•Auto max HR: Yes

•Critical swim speed: Yes

•Residual Tissue Loading Reset: yes (on the surface with user acknowledgement)

•Daily suggested workouts: Yes

•Training load focus: Yes

•Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display): Yes

•HR alerts: Yes

•Foot pod capable: Yes

•Compatible with Vector™ (power meter): Yes

•Training Effect (anaerobic): Yes

•Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts: yes (high and low)

•Vertical speed: 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)

•Customizable data pages: Yes

•MTB Grit & Flow: Yes

•Race an activity: Yes

•Finish time: Yes

•Elevation profile: Yes

•Configurable lap alerts: Yes

•Incident Detection during select activities: Yes

•PlaysLike distance: Yes

•Virtual Partner: Yes

•VO2 Max (Run): Yes

•Relaxation reminders: Yes

•Physio TrueUp: Yes

•Custom alerts: Yes

•Back to start: Yes

•Available Boating Profiles: Boating

•Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length): yes (with compatible accessory)

•Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC) Yes

•Alerts & alarms: Audible and vibration alarms for ascent rate, PO2, CNS/OTU, NDL, deco, gas switching. Customizable (up to 40) audible and/or vibration per dive mode, based on depth or time

•Physical size: 43 x 43 x 14.15 mmFits wrists with the following circumference:Silicone band: 128-224 mm.Extra long silicone band: 126-360 mm

•Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it): Yes

•Compatible with BaseCamp™: Yes

•Music storage: up to 2,000 songs

•Available gym activity profiles: Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Pilates and Yoga

•PO2: Up to 2.0 with customizable deco PO2 setting

•Automatic altitude adjustment: Yes

•Bezel Material:stainless steel

•Hazards and course targets: Yes

•Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only): Yes

•TruSwing™ compatible: Yes

•UltraTrac mode: Yes

•Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green): Yes

•Calendar: Yes

•Barometric altimeter: Yes

•Weather: Yes

•Auto Lap®: Yes

•Sunrise/sunset times: Yes

•Pacing alerts (pool swim only): Yes

•Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor: yes (with Acclimation)

•Relaxation breathing timer: Yes

•Floors climbed: Yes

•Dive activity maximum operating depth: 100 meters

•Respiration rate (24x7): Yes

•% HR max: Yes

•% HRR: Yes

•Case material: fiber-reinforced polymer

•Available outdoor recreation profiles: Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Surfing, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Jumpmaster, Tactical

•Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only): Yes

•TracBack®: Yes

•Storm alert: Yes

•Water rating: Dive (100 meters)

•Advanced Vector support: Yes

•Handicap scoring: Yes

•Color display: Yes

•Primary benefit (Training Effect labels): Yes

•Wrist-based Heart Rate (constant, every second): Yes

•HR zones: Yes

•Auto rest (pool swim only): Yes

•Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit): Yes

•Connectivity: Bluetooth® Smart, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®

•Find My Phone: Yes

•Stride length (real time): yes (with compatible accessory)

•Sleep score and insights: Yes

•Custom targets: Yes

•Downloadable cartography support: Yes

•Available run profiles: Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running

•Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor): Yes

•Stopwatch: Yes

•Run workouts: Yes

•Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): Yes

•Training Effect: Yes

•GPS speed and distance: Yes

•Round-trip course creator (running/cycling): Yes

•Area calculation: yes (via Connect IQ™)

•Find My Watch: Yes

•Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory): Yes

•Customizable conservatism: yes (low/medium/high or custom using gradient factors)

•Preloaded road and trail maps: Yes

•Advanced workouts: Yes

•Dive planner: yes (basic NDL + multi-gas deco planner)

•Trendline™ Popularity Routing: yes (available as a wearable map theme)

•Strava Live Segments: Yes

•Safety Stop: yes (customizable off/3min/5min)

•VIRB® Remote: Yes

•Custom end-dive timeout: yes (20s to 10 m)

•Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™

•Dual grid coordinates: Yes

•Expedition GPS Activity: Yes

•TrueUp™: Yes

•Timer: Yes

•Trimix support: Yes

•Missed Deco Lockout: yes (can be disabled prior to dive with user acknowledgement)

•Courses: Yes

•Respiration rate (during exercise): yes (with compatible accessory)

•Compatible with Varia™ lights: Yes

•Deep Stops: yes (using custom gradient factors)

•Thermometer: Yes

•Hydration: yes (in Garmin Connect™)

•Alarm clock: Yes

•Group LiveTrack: Yes

•Intensity minutes: Yes

•Interval training: Yes

•Gyroscope: Yes

•Underwater wrist-based heart rate: Yes

•Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories): Yes

•Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile :Yes

•Countdown start (pool swim only): Yes

•Preloaded topographical maps: Yes

•Sun and moon information: yes (via Connect IQ™)

•ClimbPro™ Ascent Planner: Yes

•Available swim profiles:Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swimming/Running

•Power Modes - customizable in-activity battery settings: Yes

•Move IQ™: Yes

•Automatically saves dive entry and exit locations: Yes

•Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor): Yes

•Records heart rate while swimming: yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™)

•Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor: Yes

•Tides: 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)

•GLONASS: Yes

•Smart Notifications: Yes

•Sight 'N Go: Yes

•Garmin Pay™: Yes

•Automatic daylight saving time: Yes

•Yoga workouts: Yes

•Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation: yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)

•Depth sensor: Yes

•Projected waypoint: Yes

•Bread crumb trail in real time: Yes

•Time/date: yes

•Sync dive log to Garmin Dive™ Mobile app: Yes

•Calories burned: Yes

•Customizable activity profiles: Yes

•Auto start/end dive: Yes

•Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app: yes (optional Connect IQ app)

•Garmin Live Segments: Yes

•Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps): Yes

•HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices): Yes

•Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute): Yes

•Controls smartphone music: Yes

•Power meter compatible: Yes

•Total ascent/descent: Yes

•Auto multisport activities: Yes

•Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map): Yes

•No fly time: yes (with 24hr countdown)

•PinPointer: Yes

•Improved recovery time: Yes

•Step counter: Yes

•APNEA hunt mode: Yes

•Trail run auto climb: Yes

•Manual multisport activities: Yes

•Barometric trend indicator with Storm Alert: Yes

•Automatic rep counting: Yes

•LiveTrack: Yes

•HR calories: Yes

•Point-to-point navigation: Yes

•Gauge mode: Yes

•PacePro™ Pacing Strategies: Yes

•Tides: Yes

•Time and distance alerts: Yes

•Garmin Connect™ Challenges app: yes (optional Connect IQ app)

•Yardage to layups/doglegs: Yes

•XERO™ Locations: Yes

•Auto Pause®: Yes

•Backlight: yes (configurable time and intensity; auto-on at depth)

•All-day Stress: Yes

•Running dynamics: yes (with compatible accessory)

•3-axis dive compass: yes (with adjustable heading, quick change to 90R, 90L and reciprocal). Indicates degrees and direction back to set heading

•Full vector map: Yes

•Body Battery™ Energy Monitor: Yes

•Available cycling profiles:Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Biking, Triathlon

•Future elevation plot: Yes

•QuickFit™ watch band compatible: yes (20 mm)

•Accelerometer: Yes

•Recovery time: Yes

•Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only): Yes

•Custom dive data screens: Yes

•Around Me mode: Yes

•Hunt/fish calendar: yes (via Connect IQ™)

•Drill logging (pool swim only): Yes

•Preloaded with 42,000 courses worldwide: Yes

•Course guidance: Yes

•Strap material:silicone

•GPS Time Sync: Yes

•Auto scroll: Yes

•Round timer/odometer: Yes

•Compass: Yes

•Heat and altitude acclimation: Yes

•Digital scorecard: yes

•Lens Material: sapphire crystal

•Cardio workouts: Yes

•Green View with manual pin position: Yes

•Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level): Yes

•Strength workouts: Yes

•Galileo: Yes

•Distance to destination: Yes

•Woman's Health: yes (in Garmin Connect™)

•Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.): Yes

•Manual lap: Yes

•Distance traveled: Yes

•Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): Yes

•GPS-based distance, time and pace: Yes

•Daily Resting Heart Rate: Yes

•Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal): Yes

•Surface diver status widget yes (surface interval, N2/HE loading, CNS, OTU and tissue compartment status)

•Garmin AutoShot™: Yes

•Fitness Age: yes (in app)

•Nitrox support: Yes

•Decompression model: Bühlmann ZHL-16c with gradient factors

•FTP (Functional Threshold Power): yes (with compatible accessory)

•Dive ascent/descent rate indicator: Yes

•Built-in barometer and tide tables: Yes

•Assistance: Yes

•Race predictor: Yes

•Descent Mk2S

•Extra-long adjustment strap

•Charging/data cable

•Documentation