all these acronyms

[DandyDon]

JohnVranesevich once bubbled...
Greetings:

Wow, I can't thank dandydon enough for posting that list. As a new OW, it sure is coming in handy.

As I said prevously: "... they're from a far flung region of this Scuba Board, and many of them I don't know, but - I thought I'd show them. I could not really explain how I got there. "

I think the list is a little dated, maybe, but a good place to start. I'm gonna' load it in my puter and add to it...

thanks, don

 

[diverrick]

GUE? going under easy? or is this a type of duck! you know gu-e-duck. Used to dig for them all the time.

 

[RichLockyer]

bwerb once bubbled...
I heard 80/80 as using an Aluminum 80 in 80 degree water temperature...average tropical tourist diving.

Ahh... I thought it was the NDL for some new nitrox table

 

[vxvr]

SEP - someone else's problem
TLA - three letter acronym

 

[turnerjd]

Some more for DandyDons list..........

ADU - archaeological diving unit (UK)
AI - Air integrated
CCR - closed circuit rebreather
CD - Chart datum
DSAT - Diving science and technology (corporate affiliate of PADI)
ER - extended range (technical course)
FFESSM - Federation francaise d'etude des sport sous-marin
GUE - Global underwater explorers (Georges' underwater eggheads???????)
HDS - Historical diving society (UK)
HT / HW - High tide / high water
Heliox - Helium plus Oxygen mixed in some way.
Nitrox - Nitrogen plus Oxygen mixed in some way.
LT / LW - Low tide/water
MHWS - Mean High Water Springs
MHWN - Mean High Water Neaps
MLWS - Mean Low Water Springs
MLWN - Mean Low water Neaps
OC - open circuit (standard scuba)
PPB - Peak performance bouyancy (PADI speciality)
RGBM - reduced gradient bubble model
RN - Royal Navy
SCR - semi-closed circuit rebreather
SNMP - syndicat national des moniteurs de plongée
WGS 86 - world geographic survey 1986 (datum for the majority of nautical charts)
WWW - warm water wussie
ZH-L8 - algorythm from Uwatec computers based on the Buhlemann formulae

non-diving
IMNVHO - in my (not very) humble opinion
FWIW - for what its worth
OMG - Oh my (religious deity)
WTF - what the f*&@

 

[Oldenboldiver]

Great Old Chestnuts of the World #29

SCUBA= Some Come Up Barely Alive

I nearly choked on the dust that came off that one.

Here's another couple for us Brits.

BSAC = British Soaked in Alcohol Club or Bring Some Additional Cash

Alternatively, at elections it's B*llsh*t, Secrets And Cliques

 

[paolov]

Some more for DandyDons list..........
non-diving
IMNVHO - in my (not very) humble opinion
FWIW - for what its worth
OMG - Oh my (religious deity)
WTF - what the f*&@

can someone add to the non-diving terms as used in this forum?

 

[O2BBubbleFree]

Oops.

 

[dpbishop]

Fundies? It seems to be the DIR equivalent of a fraternity hazing.

 

[miked]

I might have missed this link as I scanned through this thread, but here is an "official" SB acronym list-not sure how complete or up to date it is.

http://www.scubaboard.com/cms/article8.html

Mike