It's designed specifically for deep-water offshore fishing, with usable live sonar imagery reaching down to roughly 1,000 feet, images refreshing at a minimum of 10 frames per second, and a wide 120° x 8° beam pattern for broad water-column coverage in a single view. This makes it suited to vessels regularly fishing 200 to 1,000-foot depths - well beyond where standard-mount Panoptix LiveScope transducers are practical - letting anglers see bait and fish positioned live around and beneath the boat, rather than only historical sonar returns as the boat passes over them. Being a true thru-hull unit, professional installation is required rather than a simple transom-clamp or trolling-motor mount. This is the same underlying Panoptix technology that also ships as a trolling-motor-integrated option on Garmin's Force-series motors, but built here as a dedicated, purpose-mounted offshore unit for boats fishing well beyond the depth and structure range that a shallow-water trolling-motor transducer is designed for.