nolatom
Contributor
Preface: I love the Christian Science Monitor, and liked this article too, about turning invasive Lionfish into supper after lots of work cleaning them.;
Recipe for invasive species: lionfish as food and sport
But...the author, who writes well, opens by describing the lionfish diver surfacing with her prey while carrying her "heavy oxygen tank"..
Am I just a terminology snob?? I admit it's tricky--when does a flipper become a fin?? And we swim with swim goggles, yah? And that tank does have *some* oxygen in it, otherwise we'd croak. But it still sets my teeth on edge since we divers like our "in crowd" jargon, as I suspect do all specialized endeavors that have their own language.
Or is it useful? When I hear or read a report, I can discern if the speaker or writer has dive experience based largely on how they describe the gear. Like when there's a report of a dive incident, we can tell if the narrator is a desk cop, or a police diver.
Maybe I'd be unhappier if everyone knew the secret lingo??? And there sure is a lot of it, some of which I don't know:
Scuba Slang and Technical Terms — Road Trips and Resistance
Recipe for invasive species: lionfish as food and sport
But...the author, who writes well, opens by describing the lionfish diver surfacing with her prey while carrying her "heavy oxygen tank"..
Am I just a terminology snob?? I admit it's tricky--when does a flipper become a fin?? And we swim with swim goggles, yah? And that tank does have *some* oxygen in it, otherwise we'd croak. But it still sets my teeth on edge since we divers like our "in crowd" jargon, as I suspect do all specialized endeavors that have their own language.
Or is it useful? When I hear or read a report, I can discern if the speaker or writer has dive experience based largely on how they describe the gear. Like when there's a report of a dive incident, we can tell if the narrator is a desk cop, or a police diver.
Maybe I'd be unhappier if everyone knew the secret lingo??? And there sure is a lot of it, some of which I don't know:
Scuba Slang and Technical Terms — Road Trips and Resistance