Viewing Tide Station Information; Animated Tide And Current Indicators; Showing Tides And Current Indicators; Showing Satellite Imagery On The Navigation Chart - Garmin Volvo Penta Glass Cockpit B7 Owner's Manual

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provides an underwater view of the sea floor or lake
bottom.
Suspended targets, such as fish, are indicated by red,
green, and yellow spheres. Red indicates the largest
targets and green indicates the smallest.

Viewing Tide Station Information

Tide and current information is for information purposes
only. It is your responsibility to heed all posted water-
related guidance, to remain aware of your surroundings,
and to use safe judgment in, on, and around the water at
all times. Failure to heed this warning could result in
property damage, serious personal injury, or death.
The
icon on the chart indicates a tide station. You can
view a detailed graph for a tide station to help predict the
tide level at different times or on different days.
NOTE: This feature is available with premium charts, in
some areas.
1 From the Navigation chart or Fishing chart, select a
tide station.
Tide direction and tide level information appear near
.
2 Select the station name.

Animated Tide and Current Indicators

Tide and current information is for information purposes
only. It is your responsibility to heed all posted water-
related guidance, to remain aware of your surroundings,
and to use safe judgment in, on, and around the water at
all times. Failure to heed this warning could result in
property damage, serious personal injury, or death.
NOTE: This feature is available with premium charts, in
some areas.
You can view indicators for animated tide station and
current direction on the Navigation chart or the Fishing
chart. You must also enable animated icons in the chart
settings

(Showing Tides and Current Indicators,

page
13).
An indicator for a tide station appears on the chart as a
vertical bar graph with an arrow. A red arrow pointing
downward indicates a falling tide, and a blue arrow
pointing upward indicates a rising tide. When you move
the cursor over the tide station indicator, the height of the
tide at the station appears above the station indicator.
Current direction indicators appear as arrows on the
chart. The direction of each arrow indicates the direction
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of the current at a specific location on the chart. The color
of the current arrow indicates the range of speed for the
current at that location. When you move the cursor over
the current direction indicator, the specific current speed
at the location appears above the direction indicator.
Color
Current Speed Range
Yellow
0 to 1 knot
Orange
1 to 2 knots
Red
2 or more knots
Showing Tides and Current Indicators
NOTE: This feature is available with premium charts, in
some areas.
You can show static or animated tide and current station
indicators on the Navigation chart or Fishing chart.
1 From the Navigation or Fishing chart, select Menu >
Layers > Chart > Tides & Currents.
2 Select an option:
• To show animated tide station indicators and
animated current direction indicators on the chart,
select Animated.
• To enables the tides and current slider, which sets
the time for which tides and currents are reported
on the map, select Slider.

Showing Satellite Imagery on the Navigation Chart

NOTE: This feature is available with premium charts, in
some areas.
You can overlay high-resolution satellite images on the
land or on both land and sea portions of the Navigation
chart.
NOTE: When enabled, high-resolution satellite images
are present only at lower zoom levels. If you cannot see
high-resolution images in your optional chart region, you
can select
to zoom in. You also can set the detail level
higher by changing the map zoom detail.
1 From the Navigation chart, select Menu > Layers >
Chart > Satellite Photos.
2 Select an option:
• Select Land Only to show standard chart
information on the water, with photos overlaying the
land.
NOTE: This setting must be enabled to view
Standard Mapping
• Select Photo Map to show photos on both the
water and the land at a specified opacity. Use the
slider bar to adjust the photo opacity. The higher
you set the percentage, the more the satellite
photos cover both land and water.

Viewing Aerial Photos of Landmarks

Before you can view aerial photos on the Navigation
chart, you must turn on the Photo Points setting in the
chart setup
(Chart Layers, page
®
charts.
16).
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