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The Screen Comes Alive

My gaze was transfixed on the dash-mounted Garmin display as I watched a school of bait flutter up off the artificial reef some 50 feet below the boat. The movements on the MFD were much like the ones I saw on ultrasounds when my wife was pregnant. But instead of looking at heartbeats and baby toes moving, we were spotting bait and bottom fish.

We were off Fort Pierce, Florida, with Capt. Eric Davis, who has been using Garmin’s LiveScope transducer technology

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