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Re: What Watch Features for Celestial Navigation?
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2012 Feb 8, 16:41 -0800
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2012 Feb 8, 16:41 -0800
And a side note on waterproofness: I read a watch spec recently that said it was "waterproof to 330 meters" That's roughly 1000 feet. Talk about overkill -- I believe that even with the latest and greatest specialized diving apparatus, humans are limited to about 400 ft.
From: Alan S <alan202@verizon.net>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 2:48 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: What Watch Features for Celestial Navigation?
Greg:Try, from Amazon.com, the casio "g-shock" atomic watches.I had had one for several years, and the band failed. Sent it back for band replacement, and received an entirely new watch. As I recall, I paid about $50 for the original item. The ones I have had appear to keep excellent time, meaning as follows. Going to Official Time, and clicking on NIST, a dynamic time tic appears. In-so-far as reading the watch, comparing it with the time tic, the watch is dead on, as close as two people can tell, one calling "mark" the other reading time on the watch.Clicking a button brings up Greenwhich time, there is a stop watch capability, which I have not used, I assume that it will read 24 hour time if desired, and it is "waterproof" to 100 meters, as I recall
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