How to log data from my depthfinder?

Using Arduino Project Guidance
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I want to be able to press a button on my Arduino and start saving NMEA 0183 data from my Lowerance HDS 7 fishfinder to an SD card. The fishfinder has wires for TX +/- and RX +/- and uses RS-422 serial (page 31 of the PDF below). I am a beginner and how would I go about doing this?

NMEA 0183 data - NMEA 0183 - Wikipedia

Lowerance HDS 7 - http://www.lowrance.com/Root/Lowrance-Documents/CA/HDS_INSTALL_IM_EN_988-10043-001_w.pdf

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You can buy an RS422 to TTL adapter and read the fishfinder output directly with the Arduino, via the serial port.