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Old 02-27-2015, 02:10 PM   #73
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Originally Posted by Codger2 View Post
Won't the Navionics Platinum, running in a compatible chart plotter give you the same information with one transducer? (ie) Running on a Raymarine E series will give you all the contour lines and even shade them to show a graphic image of the bottom. Running with the chart information (Split screen) this would tell you pretty much all you need to know. I'll admit that side scan is really neat! (I use to have one that I used for peeking under kelp paddies, looking for Yellow Tail)
Not at all. One shows me what the depth reported at some fixed time in the sometimes distant past was. The other shows me the actual current depth.
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