Garmin GPSMAP 555S Sounder with AU Charts

Overview

• Bright, sharp, colourful graphics on a 5-inch screen
• Simple, intuitive interface, making navigation through the water easy!
• CANet® compatible, so you can share sounder data with another chartplotter on your boat

The GPSMAP 555S Sounder boasts bright, sharp colorful graphics on a 5-inch screen. The high resolution VGA screen, displays preloaded detailed marine charts for Australia. Garmin's simple menus, and straightforward button functionsa are legendary. You can add the optional BlueChart® g2 Vision SD card for even more enhanced features.

This sounder version, GPSMAP 555s, comes with a powerful digital sounder (up to 1 kW) with a dual frequency transducer that clearly paints depth contours, fish targets and structure. It’s also CANet compatible, so you can share sounder data with another chartplotter on your boat. It also includes the BNC connection for an optional external antenna, available from Johnny Appleseed GPS, for use in a boat with metal or timber roofing.

Garmin's new chart plotters are pre-loaded with marine chart detail for all of Australia's and New Zealand's coastline. This equates to over $700 worth of Garmin Bluechart marine mapping, so there is no need to fiddle with data-cards or computers. Chart detail includes underwater contours and soundings, bottom structure, wrecks, shoals, beacons, buoys, lead lights, marina entrances, tidal zones, and tide calculations.

The GPSMAP 555 series features an ultra-bright 127mm VGA display with twice the pixel count of the standard 550 series; built-in, satellite-enhanced worldwide basemap and simplified user operation.

Don't hesitate - Navigate! With just a few buttons and a simple, intuitive interface, the GPSMAP 555S simplifies navigation for experienced and newer mariners.

Add Sonar - this GPSMAP 555s version, includes a powerful (up to 1kW) dual frequency transom mounted transducer that clearly paints depth contours, fish targets and structure whether you’re fishing in freshwater or off the coast. The 555 series are also CANet™ compatible, so you can share sounder data with another chartplotter on your boat.

With the optional BlueChart g2 Vision SD card, you can add a whole new dimension of exceptional features to your chartplotter. 3D mariner’s eye view or fish eye view provides you with a 3-dimensional perspective of map information, both above the waterline and below it. High-resolution satellite images and aerial photographs help you orient yourself in unfamiliar areas. Auto Guidance technology searches through all relevant charts to create a route you can actually follow - one that avoids obstacles, shallow water, buoys and other obstructions.

The GPSMAP 555 series come with a multi-angle mounting system with stainless steel shaft and mounting screw. A cover is provided for the screen on both models, when not in use. You can save 1,500 waypoints (with auto date and time), and you can store 20 color coded track files. These can be saved from a track log up to 5 days in length (10,000 points). It is easy to create permanently stored routes on-screen, from recorded tracks.

The SD card slot is not designed to read any other Garmin Mapsource mapping, including Bluechart for other areas in the Pacific, or City Navigator.