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For that reason, I believe it is justifiable to shoot anyone on a jetski. (I cheered out loud when readind one of Jimmy Buffett's characters used a stinger missile on one in his first book).

I HATE jetskis and the usually drunken idiots who ride them, but that's another thread altogether.

Agreed!
 
Padipro once bubbled...
It doesn't do you much good if the boaters can't see it, not that they pay much attention to it in the first place.
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You can say that again. The few shore dives I've made off Deerfield or Pompano I always seem to get the idiot kids on jet skis or a rented boat who like to slalom and circle the flag.

Where's the CG when you need them?

Marc
 
You don't actually have to clean, just throw the stuff off the bed onto the floor and dig a little path to the doorway! Your spare room can't be 1/4 as messy as my aunts house--YIKES!!

Ber :bunny:
 
Padipro once bubbled...
I just attack the end of the line to the flag and clip the reel to my weight belt or BC and it a hands free dive flag.
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If you are a Padi Pro as your name implies, you should know better. NEVER attach your dive flag or dive flag line to your person. If a boat should accidentally (or purposely) snag your line or float, you would very likely be pulled to the surface very quickly, which could cause a serious decompression injury.
 
ScubyDoo once bubbled...



If you are a Padi Pro as your name implies, you should know better. NEVER attach your dive flag or dive flag line to your person. If a boat should accidentally (or purposely) snag your line or float, you would very likely be pulled to the surface very quickly, which could cause a serious decompression injury.
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Yes Scuby, I am a PADI Pro, have been for many years and I'm smart enough to know that the tensile strength of the line on the wreck reel and the connection to my dive flag aren't sufficient enough to pull me to the surface if it were snagged by a boat or jet ski. Either the line or the flag would brake well before it would pull a 200 pound man with another 100 pounds of gear through the water to the surface. Besides, what's there for the line to get snagged on? The hull of the boat is smooth and the prop would likely cut the line if it were hooked there. I think whoever told you that was talking about the big yellow flag reels with the yellow nylon rope. :D It's far more dangerious to place one of those on your arm, which you see people doing all the time, so you don't have to hold it your hand then to clip a small wreck reel to a plastic D ring on a BC or weight belt.
 
What's your instructor number ?

Hope you NEVER use your flag and technique during a training dive.


Rope too thin to allow proper grip for "breaking" on assent skills. Never attach anything like that to your person,regardless.

Ron
 
Ron Brandt once bubbled...
Rope too thin to allow proper grip for "breaking" on assent skills.
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I'm confused. How do you use the flag and line on a plastic reel that you're towing behind you as a "break" for "assent" skills? It's not attached to anything that can stop you.
 
I used my duve flag and reel for the first time yesterday - what a pain in the butt! The line was getting tangled in my fins, etc. Boy I hated using it...

But, the law IS the law!
 
Hey Padipro,
Thats funny you should mention that - as that was one of the first things I have heard 2 agencies say - "NEVER tie your dive flag or float to your person in the event a ship snags the line."

Yea, it might break, but then again, someone could get a nasty cut, have a piece of gear yanked off of get snagged up in it, etc.

You ought to know better!

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FLL Diver once bubbled...


I'm confused. How do you use the flag and line on a plastic reel that you're towing behind you as a "break" for "assent" skills? It's not attached to anything that can stop you.
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The flag is ancored to the bottom.Either weighted or attached.

When do the CESA it is a PADI requirement to have the flag line between you and the student with either your free hand or your leg wrapped aroung the line to either slow the assent or stop it if the student stops exhaling.The line should be on quarter to one half inch diameter.

Not to do this is a standards violation.This is a requirement.

One of the other things I learned 20 years ago was how to tow the flag with you. Agree or not it is often unlawful not to .

Ron
 
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