Realistically, any GPS system would have done the same, whether you have to touch a screen or push buttons.

Wayfinding is like one of the most basic of features on these units.

With one touch delete of GPS history, these two would be heros sealed his fate while stumbling through our hierarchy of menus.

Upon returning to civilization and entering their story in the corporate bug tracker, their feature request was denied, as better history retention is in the +Pro model.

Anybody that has dealt with a marine GPS units can handle all of them. These aren’t sophisticated interfaces and the features they offer for the most part is standardized. It’s not like it controls a spaceship or something, it’s just a GPS unit.

Would a random passerby potentially fuck things up? Maybe, but realistically probably not. Would the guy that just jumped from moving boat to moving boat? No, they have obviously seen and used one of these before.

> Upon returning to civilization and entering their story in the corporate bug tracker, their feature request was denied, as better history retention is in the +Pro model.

Garmin, like practically every company out there, is well known to hide features behind premium models. Not sure exactly what point it is you’re trying to make but Garmin isn’t a magical snowflake who doesn’t partake in this practice.

How dare a company advertise their features with an interesting story! Get a grip.

Making the claim that somehow the magical interface of the Garmin saved this man is preposterous.

It’s a GPS unit. It’s not some magical device that pinpointed the person’s exact position overboard and led them right to it. They would have been able to do the exact same thing on literally any other unit out there.

As I said in another comment, Garmin is certainly entitled to post it but people are equally entitled to point out the ridiculous and hamfisted advertising.

Good luck trying to figure out how to do this on garmin’s handheld devices in a hurry!