This hydrometer has an easy to read 2-color scale with a safe zone, improved no wet hands design, extra wide stabilizer base, accurate to +/- 0.001, full range scale from: 1.000 to 1.032 in .002 increments except in the safe zone, there it is in .0001 increments (specific gravity), 0 to 40 PPT in increments of 2 (salinity).