Question re: Safety sausage & spool

[sytech]

I always carry a 6 ft. safety sausage and a 150 ft. spool in a bag clipped to my BC.

I have used it only a few times which was for practicing how to deploy it correctly and how to let the line out without getting tangled.

Was wondering how many people wash the safety sausage and open it to it's full length to dry. I happen to do that after my entire dive trip is complete but not after each dive day.

Just curious.


Sy

 

[Darcey]

Hmmm....I only wash it out after I've been in some muddy/dirty water, salt water or if I know I won't be diving for awhile. I washed mine out after the pumpkin carving contest a few weeks ago and how in the world pumpkin guts got in the pouch I don't know!

 

[Noboundaries]

We're like you. If on a weekend trip, we'll open ours and wash them with the rest of our gear when we get home. If on a weeklong trip, we'll rinse daily with our gear, but leave them closed. At the end of the week when we're doing the final rinse before drying and packing, we open it and rinse it. Then it all gets another bath with the enzyme stuff when we get home.

 

[linger]

No big deal, but, that's a lot of line.

I rinsed off and dried mine out after each dive. getting rid of salt water can't hurt right?
I washed it properly after the dive trip was over.

 

[NudeDiver]

No big deal, but, that's a lot of line.

I was thinking the same thing. I'm wondering how often the OP is going to 150 feet.