You can use the words you want, although in most situations people will understand you better if you say “blood pressure monitor” – unless you’re in the medical field and need to be more specific.
The caving one bothers me because people talk about a sport they don’t do or their friends don’t do with a word only outsiders use. It shows you don’t want any connection to the actual people who do it and who sometimes die in accidents.
I’ve spoken with the cave divers at Wakulla Springs, in Florida. They’ve done a bit of serious research there, mapping it back several miles. The opening of the cave is 120 feet below the surface, and goes deeper still (I’m remembering 300 feet) once one gets inside, with the pressure of the water pushing outward. They compress for 6 hours, can be down there for 6 hours, and then decompress for 6 hours on the longer expeditions. AFAIK no one has died in that one, at least not for a very long time. There are mastodon bones at 90-120 feet, that one used to be able to see from the surface.
You can use the words you want, although in most situations people will understand you better if you say “blood pressure monitor” – unless you’re in the medical field and need to be more specific.
The caving one bothers me because people talk about a sport they don’t do or their friends don’t do with a word only outsiders use. It shows you don’t want any connection to the actual people who do it and who sometimes die in accidents.
I’ve spoken with the cave divers at Wakulla Springs, in Florida. They’ve done a bit of serious research there, mapping it back several miles. The opening of the cave is 120 feet below the surface, and goes deeper still (I’m remembering 300 feet) once one gets inside, with the pressure of the water pushing outward. They compress for 6 hours, can be down there for 6 hours, and then decompress for 6 hours on the longer expeditions. AFAIK no one has died in that one, at least not for a very long time. There are mastodon bones at 90-120 feet, that one used to be able to see from the surface.
http://floridacaves.com/wakullaprofile.JPG
Dude that’s awesome!! Cave diving sounds like it’s come a long way.