Also, amazngly enough, National Geographic Explorer website gets it right: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120325-james-cameron-mariana-trench-dive-deepest-science-sub-descent/
Nice, rational metric, unfortunately following imperial, but still there in every single instance. I have to wonder if these constant references to depths in miles are due to the fact that the original information was in kilometers. Remek On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:40 AM, <j...@frewston.plus.com> wrote: > Try the BBC report, at: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17503395 > > The text in the report is metric with imperial in parentheses after, but > look at the video – all metric. > > John F-L > > *From:* Remek Kocz <rek...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, March 26, 2012 3:16 AM > *To:* U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> > *Subject:* [USMA:51563] James Cameron making news with the Mariana Trench > dive. > > James Cameron is diving to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, which is > making the current headlines. AP of course bungles it in their usual way, > and then some. Attempting to relate miles to feet to miles doesn't quite > work: > > > http://www.freep.com/article/20120325/ENT/120325017/Cameron-dive-deepest-spot-on-earth?odyssey=nav|head > > > > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4893 - Release Date: 03/25/12 >
