On 29 November 2017 at 01:27, Rick Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > Just out of interest I decided to look through (use the search function) > some diving resources on my computer (admittedly mostly tech related - I'll > see if I can check padi's encyclopedia of recreational diving when I get > home). It appears we're not the only one who can't decide on tank vs > cylinder. > > Deco for divers: consistent use of cylinder (except when referring to water > tanks) > GUE tech 1 manual: mixed use of cylinder and tank throughout, even in the > same paragraph > GUE SOPs: mixed use throughout > Cave Divers Association of Australia training standards: mixed use > throughout, even within same sentence > Hollis DG03 user manual: consistent use of tank
I'll add mine adding more confusion. I used Google Books Ngram viewer to search for the use of these terms trough the years. I can get result up to 2008. I run a simple non-case sensitive query for terms: "scuba tank", "diving tank", "scuba cylinder", "diving cylinder". I was obliged to add the scuba/diving word otherwise my search would have been too generic. here my results: https://goo.gl/3xDe1n Scuba tank wins Here its help page showing how complex can be the search https://books.google.com/ngrams/info -- Davide https://vimeo.com/bocio/videos _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
