What's Deepwater?

[drainbamage]

I've often said that I like deepwater acro's, and there's discussion of deepwater zoanthids, leading me to wonder-what the heck is deepwater?
I'm assuming this is a diver established condition? Is there a depth at which you need to start using SCUBA gear as opposed to free-water diving? Is it a depth at which you need to start using decompression techniques when coming up from?

btw, when I'm saying I like deepwater acro's I'm thinking of things like echinata's and similarly shaped acro's (the long semi-thin tubular structure shape) in contrast to things like bottlebrushes and such (Green Slimers, Tort's, Tables, etc.) Am I speaking with any accuracy on this or just lumping a bunch of unrelated acro's into a category they don't belong in?

Thanks all!

 

[Speg]

I would imagine it to be a distance that must you must scuba to. I've also heard that "deepwater zoanthids" come from 30 meters deep.

 

[George Brown]

30 METER that is really a long distance .Kinect Sensor

 

[vnreef]

and water is cold, like deep water fish must have chiller?

 

[Steven Pro]

It is mostly a marketing term.

 

[ksc]

It's whatever you want it to be..... I think the only 2 corals that state a depth are the 20 and 30k lokani. Good luck finding them there....

 

[moto826]

deep water is any thing over your head

 

[ficklefins]

 

[Wy Renegade]

ROFL! nice ^

 

[SDguy]

I thought "deepwater" was another way of saying "smooth skinned" with respect to acros. I had no idea it actually was meant to suggest ocean depth LOL.

 

[drainbamage]

I thought "deepwater" was another way of saying "smooth skinned" with respect to acros. I had no idea it actually was meant to suggest ocean depth LOL.

LOL-I see by the responses that no definition is established at the least. And yea, your thinking of "smooth skinned" is what I mean by categorising the acro's I like under that term, so I'll stick with it for them (Lokani's, Echinata's, Granulosa's)

As for deepwater Zoa's- I guess they either do or don't exist because there's no establishment of what deepwater means, lol. According to what we have it's a Zoa that exists somewhere between over-your-head depth to 30m or more, or has just been to the movie's lately.

I figured it'd actually be something simple like "SCUBA divers call deepwater anything over X feet/meters deep" or "you must use SCUBA gear to reach deepwater." Suppose that'd be too simple though :xd:

 

[clowns101]

Like SD said,with acropora,it has to do with the acropora being smoothed skin,i.e like a ORA Hawkins Echinata or the Aussie Blue Echinata.

Zoas,thats another story,I still need to learn......

 

[inactive]

It actually comes from the term "Depawta," latin... meaning "perfect surface." When people started to use this term overseas, the translation was lost in an instant... it was no time before people started saying "Deepwater" forever changing the tag. Kind of ironic that this world would be a hobby such as this.. where corals actually come from different depths of the ocean. It was a legit marketing definition before, now in the states it is just a marketing scam.. *cough*

 

[Troylee]

It actually comes from the term "Depawta," latin... meaning "perfect surface." When people started to use this term overseas, the translation was lost in an instant... it was no time before people started saying "Deepwater" forever changing the tag. Kind of ironic that this world would be a hobby such as this.. where corals actually come from different depths of the ocean. It was a legit marketing definition before, now in the states it is just a marketing scam.. *cough*

wow!!!!!!!!!! kray dog delivers.... i knew ya had it in ya....lol great info bro...

 

[beaslbob]

When I was learning to swim any water over my shoulders was deep water. :bigsmile:


FWIW I heard there have been reef found ad what would at first seem to first thought

60-80meters on this one:

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my .02

 

[drainbamage]

It actually comes from the term "Depawta," latin... meaning "perfect surface." When people started to use this term overseas, the translation was lost in an instant... it was no time before people started saying "Deepwater" forever changing the tag. Kind of ironic that this world would be a hobby such as this.. where corals actually come from different depths of the ocean.

Wow, source on this?

 

[Paul_N]

It actually comes from the term "Depawta," latin... meaning "perfect surface." When people started to use this term overseas, the translation was lost in an instant... it was no time before people started saying "Deepwater" forever changing the tag. Kind of ironic that this world would be a hobby such as this.. where corals actually come from different depths of the ocean. It was a legit marketing definition before, now in the states it is just a marketing scam.. *cough*

Not really coming up in any Latin dictionary and surface in Latin is superficies ...:sure:

 

[Paul_N]

The new Christmas Island Trigger was collected at 390 feet.

It says in this article that "Whereas conventional scuba is rarely used by scientists below 150 feet, and almost never below 200 feet, the rich and complex coral-reef environment with their associated diverse communities of life extend down to at least 500 feet in places. Most deep-sea submersibles, designed to withstand thousands of feet of pressure, come with a hefty price tag (upwards of $20-30,000 per day, or more), and have consequently been used almost entirely for exploration at depths much greater than 500 feet. Thus, the deep coral reefs between 200 and 500 feet throughout the world’s tropical seas – an area sometimes referred to as the coral-reef “twilight zone” – remains almost completely unexplored."

Christmas in July | DivingInDepth.com

 

[inactive]

lmfaooooo

 

[drainbamage]

lmfaooooo

Err...so were you just making things up with no interest in actually helping the thread? Could you perhaps save that sort of stuff for the lounge or something? I was looking for actual answers.