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I'm a skipper and I recently spoke with other skippers who do these routes often. All orca attacks happen of 20mt+ deep waters. It's common knowledge that in t
by cosbgn 2y ago
I'm a skipper and I recently spoke with other skippers who do these routes often.
All orca attacks happen of 20mt+ deep waters. It's common knowledge that in the hot orca areas you must be in shallow waters (20mt or less).
As in all orca attacks so far, also this one was on a hot area and on deep waters.
- kuschku 2y agoWhat kind of nautical unit is mt? I don't see it anywhere on the unit table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
- cosbgn 2y agoMeters
- emilfihlman 2y ago[flagged]
- keepamovin 2y agoThe arrogance of someone from another field telling someone else how they should write their units. Just get used to differences. Hahaha! :)
- Gud 2y agoThis is the only time I’ve seen meters abbreviated as “mt”. I have seen “metric tonne” written as mt though.
- hanche 2y agoHa, clearly mt means millitonne. It’s a complicated way to write kilogram. I use it that way sometimes, but only jokingly. I also enjoy confusing people by using Mm for a thousand kilometers. It’s correct, but unexpected
- oliwarner 2y agoIn field-specific literature, that carries. This is a public forum where we pretend to attempt to communicate with each other. Using units that people here are familiar with is key to that end. It's bad enough when people use Fahrenheit.
- emilfihlman 2y agoNot sure why you are so hostile about it, this has nothing to do with arrogance but effective communication on a board with people from all over the place. "mt" is not a recognised abbreviation for meter, nor is it taught as so anywhere. As non-standard it just leads to confusion and questions. I for example first though it's some weird measurement unit used in marine navigation, like nautical mile. So yes, don't use mt, just use m.
- cosbgn 2y agoTo be fair it's right criticism. I should have used indeed "m" as that's the correct unit and Mt is incorrect and confusing!
- kuschku 2y agoI wouldn't call it arrogance, tbh. After all, the whole point of the SI units is that there shouldn't be any field-specific units anymore.
- 317070 2y agoits meters. Depth calculations are usually in meters. I think that might even be true in US coastal waters?
- mattpallissard 2y agoUS coastal waters use fathoms.
- 317070 2y agoAh, I was guessing feet, so I couldn't find anything. Apparently, the US is literally the only country not to use meters for depth: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathom
- kuschku 2y agoI had assumed as much, but wasn't sure. After all, the US uses not only different units (mi vs km, yards vs meters) but also different symbols for the same units (kph vs km/h, sqm vs m², "klicks" vs km). I've even seen americans use "mt" for metric tons.
- tokendem 2y ago[flagged]