Many professions attempt to make their past time sound more complicated and demanding than reality. Lawyers use latin, physicians handwriting more resembles hieroglyphics, other use acronyms uncontrollably.
"I descended to 120 FSW".........What is wrong with; I went to 120 feet? I mean, are readers REALLY going to do fact checking with a hydrometer to determine the specific gravity of the fluid in which you dive to verify that it is in fact salt water or fresh water? Or how about; "We suited up on the shores of lake so and so and descended to 80 FFW. I would have thought the word "lake" made the middle f in FFW rather redundant.
Us closed circuit rebreather types take such silliness to a whole new dimension:
SCR-semi-closed circuit rebreather
CCR, close circuit rebreather
eCCR, electronic closed circuit rebreather
dCCR diver controlled closed circuit rebreather
mCCR, manual closed circuit rebreather (no doubt controlled by Manuel)
RMVR Respiratory Minute Volume Keyed Rebreather
DSV-Dive surface valve
OC/DSV open circuit dive surface valve
DSV/BOV dive surface bailout valve
Now that I know what fsw/ffw mean - like you said, it would be alot easier for the reader (and probably the writer) to read/write 120 feet, especially if they've already described the diving being in an ocean or a lake.
I think people use acronyms just to make themselves look clever (no offence to you Ace for using fsw in another thread, nor anyone else for that matter). The number of IT geeks i've been around that have mentioned about VOiP, SOAP, IP, DHTML, MSDN, NTF, XML, CSMA/CD
Oy vey <rollseyes>
Last edited by lottie; 07-25-2007 at 11:12 PM.
Lottie
Don't forget the acronym "POS!"
POS is a construction term, I think; it means : not very good.
For example: "Look at those POS split fins!"
rotff!
(There's another one...!)
ASW
"Don't believe everything you think"
So why don't you tell us how you really feel about split fins and stop being so cryptic!
Many years ago a physics teacher was explaining something to a class. When he got to the final step in the process he said something to the effect of; " and there you have it, QED"
Those of us who had limited classical training or possibly hadn't really been paying attention just stared blankly back at him.
"QED" he said, "from the latin, quod erat demonstradum" our response was a continued blank stare. He explained that it really means the rest is pretty obvious just think of it as "quite easily done". Ah! No problem Sir, we've got it!
Next problem is being worked through and the teacher asked one of the class to run through his answer. He starts off, gets a little stuck, fumbles a couple of times and then proudly states his answer with the comment "... and there you have it, POP". The teacher looks a little perplexed and asks "POP?"
The young lad replies;
"from the English Sir, Piece of Piss!"
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You learned about CESA (Controlled Emergency Swimming Ascent) in your O/W class.
After diving for awhile with Insta-Budies, you learn about PESA from them.
Which is the Panicked Emergency Swimming Ascent.
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