Clothes pegs/pins

[orm]

During my course I heard about the use of clothes pins/pegs that used to be used as non-directional markers.

I'm assuming they were customized in some way... it must have been nigh-on impossible to exit in a 0 viz scenario.

I was at a local spot the other day and saw one on the floor in the car park.

Surely people still don't use them?

 

[sea2summit]

I've got a buddy that uses them regularly. They are handy and really cheap so if you set up a circuit and can't complete it before the line police pass by you out like $0.05 instead of $1.

 

[Dive-aholic]

I have more clothes pins on my rig than arrows and cookies. They have a very specific use for me. I use them at Ts where there is already a line arrow marking my path, but I want my own personal marker to reaffirm this (I write my name on my clothes pins). I will also use them for circuits and traverses. They are not intended to be used in zero visibility situations. They are there for dives where you can see. If there is a chance of exiting in zero visibility and there is no other marker on the line, you need to use a marker than you can easily identify by touch.

 

[orm]

I use them at Ts where there is already a line arrow marking my path, but I want my own personal marker to reaffirm this...

Why not use a cookie?

 

[sea2summit]

Why not use a cookie?

You might not go back that way

 

[Mark Michaud SELAUSAR]

Why not use a cookie?

If you are scootering, or moving quick you can set it on the fly. You can also grab it on the way out without hardly slowing. It is easier than placing a cooking even when you are not. You don't have to stop and hover to set them. In the end it does the same thing as a cookie. I use white plastic clothespins with SPD135 on them.

 

[Dive-aholic]

Why not use a cookie?

A couple of reasons. First, as SPD135 already pointed out, it's much easier to drop a clothes pin on the line than a cookie. I can clip a pin on while scootering without even slowing down. Also, I can buy a bag of 100 clothes pins for $2 at Wal-mart. Or I can buy 100 cookies for $1-1.50 each. I've dropped as many as 15-20 clothes pins on a single dive.

 

[karstdvr]

A couple of reasons. First, as SPD135 already pointed out, it's much easier to drop a clothes pin on the line than a cookie. I can clip a pin on while scootering without even slowing down. Also, I can buy a bag of 100 clothes pins for $2 at Wal-mart. Or I can buy 100 cookies for $1-1.50 each. I've dropped as many as 15-20 clothes pins on a single dive.

I agree. I like clothes pins a lot for reasons mentioned. They are excellent survey station markers-mark them,then toss them.

 

[orm]

Gotcha.

Also handy for hanging your socks up in the sun during your surface interval.