D_O_H:I'm thinking the same thing you were and contemplating putting a ball on my halcyon wing. What I can't picture is how I'm going to get my wing onto a coral head to get the ball stuck in it. Is this happening on shore entries/exits or something? I'm having trouble picturing it.
P.S. I'm not taking issue w/DIR's idea of removing the ball - just trying to understand how it might apply to my type of diving.
First time I was anchoring my dive flag and the surge pushed me sideways into a coral head. Second time I inverted to look up and "see the sunshine" and being about 6 inches off the reef it caught as I was rolling over... I didn't even bump into the reef myself, just the ball got caught between some fingers of brain coral that time.
one of the guys at the LDS couldn't believe it happened so he asked one of the other instructors what he thought ... he answered: "I've done the same thing too..."
Tim
P.S. I spend a lot of my time up close to the coral watching all the "little" stuff, so I'm frequently within a foot of the bottom just watching the show