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It is not that difficult to swap, back and forth. But you know, metric is easier. Jeff the Darwinian. At 23:25 20/08/00 -0400, you wrote: >David, > >i got a deal on a bottom timer some while back, cept it was in metric. > >i use it on shallow dives for fun. i find no problem in switching >between imperial and metric for depth. you just multiply by 3.3 > >i dont think i would be as flexible with bar/psi, but i think it could >be done with some practice. > >rgds, > >Al Marvelli > >David B. Widen wrote: > >> I would be willing to bet that there will be days that both >> measurement system will be on the same boat. All my gauges are in feet >> and I'll be all yours are in meters. Do I buy all new gauges to dive >> with you and change my bottle marking or do you when you dive >> here?hmmmm ft or m, ft or m, hmmmmDavid >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: donburke56 [mailto:donburke56@ne*.ne*] >> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 3:15 PM >> To: techdiver@aquanaut.com >> Subject: MOD >> From: Jeff Swann <swanncruz@oc*.ne*.au*>> I live in >> Australia. >> > A metric country for over half my life time. >> > I am agonizing over this, that is to put depths in metres. >> >> > O2, MOD 6m. >> How about the "oxygen - Maximum Operating Depth 6 >> meters"? Where the "6" is a 80 centimeter high figure and >> the rest is about 6 centimeters. I'm sending this HTML so it >> may already look that way for you. ...and of course, a tech >> dive trip is either metric or imperial, with no mixing of >> the systems on the same boat. >> > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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