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I agree, anything Global needs to be just that in my opinion. Americans traveling overseas and diving international should not show up at the site with imperial gauges and expect to get in the water with everybody else diving metric. That just adds one more chance for a cluster f*ck if sh*t hits the fan. I've seen it happen and I personally won't be a part of it. -----Original Message----- From: "Wendell Grogan"<wgrogan@dc*.ne*> To: "techdiver"<techdiver@aquanaut.com> Date: Sun Sep 02 11:07:19 PDT 2001 Subject: Metric vs Imperial >OK, here's something we should be able to discuss without the usual >sexist references to women's underwear and menstrual cycles... > >Should US technical divers switch to metric? > >The main reason I see for keeping Imperial units around is inertia. >Also, in beginning courses, you don't want to scare off potential >customers by making them learn things in metric units. >However, once you get beyond basic OW courses, the formulas and >calculations are simpler and less complicated in metric. Also, it would >make discussions on newsgroups easier and less confusing. > >Equipment changes would be minimal, all the electronic gear can be >switched with a simple push of a button, and the imperial analogue >gauges and things would still have a large resale market when changing >over. > >Wendell >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. ___________________________________________________ GO.com Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.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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