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On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:21:23 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> > The emergency gesture underwater must be one of the most confusing
>> > ever:
>> > It's the "thumbs up" gesture.
>
>> I understand what it is that makes it confusing, but it also kinda
>> makes sense - a "thumbs up" gesture is a way of pointing up, as if to
>> say "I'm going up" or "I need to surface".
>
> Yes, but couldn't they have chosen a gesture which is *not* commonly
> used
> for "everything's fine" in other situations?
Sure, they could have. But they didn't....I could always ask a couple
friends of mine who are divers what the rationale is (if they know).
Jim
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