how many spools?

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Good questions... I carry three spools in caves too as that's as many jumps as I am allowed to do. I carry them on my butt plate (D-Ring).

Carry more spools than jumps you'll do. It'd suck to do a lost line search after you deployed that third jump eh? At this point, lots of people recommend carrying a redundant safety, just incase you fubar the first when you need that line.
 
I carry two gap reels as well as the spools. But I seem to run the spools for gaps: it's easier. Maybe I should run the reels first, since I have light as I deploy them.
 
maybe it doesn't exist with your pockets james :wink:
try fitting four spools in one of my pockets sometime

Get your Santi pockets put on already.
 
I carry two gap reels as well as the spools. But I seem to run the spools for gaps: it's easier. Maybe I should run the reels first, since I have light as I deploy them.

Why not carry only spools? It'd probably take up less space.
 
I carry a dedicated safety spool, with150ft of line on it for unanticipated problems. Besides that, I carry one more small spool over the amount I plan on using. I *typically* max out at 3 regular spools (I don't even count my safety in this, as I view it as a one way tool only to be used for fixing something / line search), but if the dive calls for more, I take more.

I don't really have a problem with current spool design, but having staggered holes (so they don't line up across the body of the spool) would be nice. That, combined with small (25ft-ish) capacity and a small diameter would be awesome. It should be just slightly negative in buoyancy, robust (able to have a set of doubles dropped on it) and black, cuz it looks cool :wink:
 
I don't really have a problem with current spool design, but having staggered holes (so they don't line up across the body of the spool) would be nice. That, combined with small (25ft-ish) capacity and a small diameter would be awesome. It should be just slightly negative in buoyancy, robust (able to have a set of doubles dropped on it) and black, cuz it looks cool :wink:
I might email tobin about this. His spools already do it, but I don't care much for the width of them. Extreme Exposure had some really thin delrin spools which I prefer, but without the staggered holes. 50ft is enough for 90% of the jumps most cave divers do, yet 3-4x that seems to be the standard spool size.
 
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