Okay, so maybe one of these....
https://www.amazon.com/DGX-Safety-Sausage-Yellow/dp/B01G426470/
Anybody know of one that is smaller? This is 4 x 44 inches.
This one - CLICK HERE - is only 36".
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Okay, so maybe one of these....
https://www.amazon.com/DGX-Safety-Sausage-Yellow/dp/B01G426470/
Anybody know of one that is smaller? This is 4 x 44 inches.
Because you’ll still see it, at least my “Trojan” you will. Loop the strobe around the anchor rope 20 feet off the wreck and clip your wreck reel 5 feet below it. Even in the unlikely chance that it slides down the anchor rope it will only go as far as the wreck line.I think you are not really using much imagination here...
Why on earth would you risk the strobe falling to the bottom if it came undone and not be able to find your safe route to the surface?
Because you’ll still see it, at least my “Trojan” you will. Loop the strobe around the anchor rope 20 feet off the wreck and clip your wreck reel 5 feet below it. Even in the unlikely chance that it slides down the anchor rope it will only go as far as the wreck line.
Take up the slack before heading off. I genuinely don’t understand what conditions you are talking about where you would need a strobe and not need a wreck reel. If you’re following a fixed guide line why not clip the strobe to that. If it’s no big deal that you don’t make it back to the strobe then fair enough you could play around with ways to deploy it.I don't mean to be rude, but did you even read my initial post?
The whole point was that the anchor line went slack (during the dive), so the part that was 20' up was then laying on the bottom. The strobe, laying on the bottom, could not be seen from any distance.
Even a Trojan that falls down into a crack on the bottom won't be seen from any distance.
Further, I've been on dives where the dive site was relatively shallow and the anchor line stretched out quite a ways into the distance before it got to the point of being 20 feet off the bottom. Too far for a strobe suspended at 20' (from the bottom) to be useful when actually on the dive site.
And, to repeat what I said in another post earlier, yes, I know that running a reel is the answer to a lot of situations. I'm not asking about those situations. I'm asking about situations where a strobe makes sense - as long as it can be at some height above the bottom, and at the actual exit point. Some dive sites I've been on involve following a line down from the surface and then following a line that runs along the bottom for some ways. I would want to mark the end of that line that runs along the bottom. Not some upline that I can't even see the strobe on because it's too far away. Even a Trojan is only visible at a limited distance in turbid water.
AP do a practice DSMB which is like a proper one but only about 10 inches long. The idea is you can pull it back down to try again.Okay, so maybe one of these....
https://www.amazon.com/DGX-Safety-Sausage-Yellow/dp/B01G426470/
Anybody know of one that is smaller? This is 4 x 44 inches.
AP do a practice DSMB which is like a proper one but only about 10 inches long.