FOR BOTH YOUR WORLDS
Descent G2 is the watch-style dive computer with a bright AMOLED display and helpful tools for your life in and out of the water.
- Bright 1.2″ amoled display makes critical information easy to read
- Keep the adventure going with up to 10 days of battery life in smartwatch mode
- Housing, bezel and buttons made with recycled ocean-bound plastics
- Support for multiple dive modes, ranging from technical to free dives
- Store dive logs on device, and review in the garmin dive™ smartphone app
- Includes advanced training features and 100+ sports apps

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE
BUILT FOR DIVING
The 1.2″ AMOLED display provides easy reading at any depth, with a sapphire lens and leakproof buttons — plus a 10 ATM dive rating.
DIVE MODES
Track all types of diving, including recreational, advanced, technical, freediving and pool apnea.
ECO-FRIENDLY DESIGN
100% of the plastic used in the watch’s housing, bezel and buttons is made with recycled ocean-bound plastics.
SURFACE MULTI-GNSS SUPPORT
Mark surface entry and exit points so you can see exactly where you started and ended your dive.
DIVE READINESS
Get insights into how physically prepared you are for your next dive based on your sleep, stress, recent exercise and dives.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS FEATURES:
Know yourself with 24/7 health monitoring features, including heart rate, advanced sleep monitoring, Pulse Ox1 and more.
DIVE
- Dive Log: Store dive logs on device, and review in the Garmin Dive app.
- Customisable Dive Modes: Add additional screens for each dive mode that features the fields you want to see.
- Two-Way Messaging and SOS: Pair with the inReach® Mini 2 satellite communicator2 and the inReach dive case (each sold separately) to communicate above the water.
- Dive Compass: Easily navigate below the waterline with the built-in 3-axis compass.
- Tide Data: Stay up to date on ocean conditions so you can catch the perfect wave. Just pair the watch with your compatible smartphone.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
- Daily Movements: Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed and more from your wrist3.
- HRV Status: Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health through heart rate variability while you sleep.
- Wrist-Based Heart Rate: Descent G2 dive computer constantly samples your heart rate, so you can stay in the know all day and night3.
- Stress Tracking: Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.
- Health Snapshot: Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider.
- Pulse OX Sensor: Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep1.
- Mindful Breathing: Start a breathwork activity to track your stress and respiration.
- Hydration: Log your daily fluid intake as a reminder to stay hydrated.
- Respiration: See how you’re breathing throughout the day and night.
- Women’s Health Tracking: Track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition education.
ACTIVITY TRACKING
- Built-In Sports Apps: Track activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.
- Surfline® Camera: See conditions — such as tide, wave height, wind and surf rating — for each of the 5 nearest surf spots, when paired with the Garmin Connect™ app on your compatible smartphone.
- Garmin Coach: Prepare for your next race, train for a milestone, or simply improve your fitness with Garmin Coach adaptive or prebuilt training plans.
- Workout Creation: Create step-by-step workouts from more than 1,600 exercises in the Garmin Connect app, and send them directly to your watch.
- Intensity Minutes: Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes.
- VO2 Max: See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.
- Altitude And Heat Acclimation: See how you’re holding up to the current elevation or heat based on your health metrics.
- HIIT Workouts: Track your HIIT workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata or custom workouts.
- Daily Suggested Workouts: View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run or ride.
- Recovery Time: Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.
CONNECTIVITY
- Garmin Connect:See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more — in this free, zero-subscription app.
- Smart Notifications: Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your Apple® or Android™ smartphone.
- Garmin Pay™ Contactless Payments: Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.
- Safety and Tracking: If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, your watch will send a message with your live location4.
- Connect IQ™ Store: Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.
Specifications
General
- Strap material: Silicone
- Lens material: Sapphire crystal
- Bezel material: Fibre-reinforced ocean-bound plastic
- Case material: Fibre-reinforced ocean-bound plastic
- QuickFit™ watch band compatible: Yes (22 m)
- Physical size: 5 x 45.5 x 15.2 mm
- Silicone band: 135-230 mm
- Extra Long Silicone Band: 128-373 mm
- Weight: 61 g
- Leakproof inductive buttons: Yes
- Display Size: 4 mm (1.2″) diameter
- Display Resolution: 390 x 390 pixels
- Colour display: Yes
- Large font option: Yes
- Battery life: Dive Mode: Up to 27 hours
- Smartwatch: Up to 10 days
- Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 12 days
- GPS: Up to 20 hours
- Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 44 hours
- Expedition GPS Activity: Up to 10 days
- Charging method: Garmin proprietary clip charger
- Memory/history: 4 GB
Daily smart features
- Connectivity BLUETOOTH® Smart, ANT+®
- Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps): Yes
- On-device Connect IQ™ Store: Yes
- Smart Notifications: Yes
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only): Yes
- View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only): Yes
- Morning report: Yes
- Calendar: Yes
- Weather forecasts: Yes
- Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile: Yes
- Battery Saver - customisable low power watch: Yes
- Controls smartphone music: Yes
- Plays and controls watch music: Yes
- Find my phone: Yes
- Find my watch: Yes
- Find My Phone during GPS activity: Yes
- Compatible with Garmin Messenger app: Yes
- VIRB® camera remote: Yes
- Smart trainer control: Yes
- Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile: Yes
- Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
- Stocks: 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
- Pool APNEA: 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
- 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
- Sync dive log to Garmin Dive™ Mobile app: Yes
- Custom dive data screens: 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)
- Dive Readiness: Yes