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 Posted: Wed Mar 11th, 2009 11:06 am
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 Skipdawg,

Thanks for the links -- quite a coincidence, yesterday I read post by TLEX http://www.oceanic.blogspot.com at WUS re his appreciation of watches from an engineering / depth perspective v. the age old "what do you NEED 1000 meter diver for the shower" discussion.

So on the way to work, I was trying to remember how deep the Marinara Trench is? I remembered the no. 7 ... 7,000 ' .... 7,000 meters ?  7,000 fathoms? 

I've done a lot of boating and offshore sailing, charts were in feet / fathoms... and we used "fathometer" to sound the depth.  So I am curious, where in the watch world did things get mixed up with meters? 

I would love to see a watch that is rated in fathoms... do you know if any watches were dialed in this fathoms?

Thanks for posting the links... quite amazing that fish, creatures, whales, porpoises, turtles regularly go to depths that would crush a human diver, and that it takes a hardened case of stainless steel or titanium for us to tell time where these creatures swim.

Jim