Depth rating escalation

[covediver]

Article from Outside magazine explains the trend of dive watch max depth getting deeper. I diagree with the authors assertion that a 100m dive watch is all that is needed for diving, although few people use one anymorr
Why Are Dive Watches Built to Go Deeper than Nuclear Submarines?

 

[TrimixToo]

If you read the manufacturers' recommendations, you will likely find that a watch with a given rating is not actually recommended to be taken to that depth underwater.

"When is 100m not 100m?" When it's a dive watch and not a dive computer!

In this, dive watch depth ratings and Sears shop vacuum horsepower ratings seem quite similar.

 

[hammet]

Just because I can't drive a Ferrari 488 at 200 mph on the Belt Parkway, doesn't mean I wouldn't want to own one.

 

[doctormike]

Gotta say, not really interested in an article where the author leads off with this:

"In the early years of underwater exploration, divers wore bronze helmets, surviving on air that was pumped down to them from the surface through a gurgling hose. With the invention of the aqua-lung, the world’s first scuba system, in the 1940s, divers were free to swim untethered, but also had to keep track of how long they were breathing compressed air to avoid the bends."