On 20 Mar 2001, at 21:56, Reef Fish wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 20:01:51 -0600, Mike <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> >> > On Tuesday, March 20, 2001 6:09 PM, Poe Lim wrote:
>
> >> > > although you could not do a reverse profile of more than 3m (from
> memory).
>
>
> >Inverted is how I have always known it Jean..... in other words
> >doing a shallow dive first then a deeper one.....
> >
> >Mike
>
> There appeared to be TWO different terms.  What Po Lim stated was
> CLEARLY relative to REPETITIVE dives ONLY (as is the way computers
> are often programmed to check) whether the max depth of the present
> dive is greater than the max depth of the preceding dive -- if so,
> it's called "reverse".
>
> The reason the repetitive context is clear is because there is NO
> WAY a dive operator could possibly know what Poe Lim did DURING
> a dive.  :-)

Unless of course they were diving with Poe...