tekkydiver
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Not necessarily. They can be used to attach to anchor line when we have to ditch the anchor and chase down a fish.A floatball has the DD flag at the top.
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Not necessarily. They can be used to attach to anchor line when we have to ditch the anchor and chase down a fish.A floatball has the DD flag at the top.
In my eyes, this was one of the biggest errors in this whole thing, the lessons learned is in this bit here, turning off engines while you have divers in the water doing a drift dive is pretty dumb, but the whole scenario was made worse by requesting the fisherman pulled you up.. He noticed this fisherman in the area and (apparently there was enough communication established, since he speaks some Spanish) to request that the fisherman, go over, grab the float and then pull me in so I would not be lost.
yeah tug of war, wonder if he swore at me? "I'm trying to help, you stupid bastard"??Dude, thanks for sharing your story. Part 1, I was angry for you. Part 2, I'm laughing. The poor guy is trying to help you not be adrift in the ocean and you're playing tug of war due to a language barrier.
We also attach floats to our tanks or scooters. I wouldn't need to cut the line in either situation, I could just unclip the reel. For the tank, we attach a float line to the tank and then clip the reel to that. On the scooter, we attach a second rope and clip it to the reel.
Lesson learned? Why did your buddy shut off the engine? We never turn ours off until we are loading the boat on the trailer.