Safety sausage questions.

[Fastmarc]

When it has been deployed and you are now ascending, what do you do with the line as you go up? Wind it on the spool as you ascend?

 

[H2Andy]

yup... and you want to keep tension on the line, so the sausage doesn't "lie flat"
on the surface .... i.e. you want to keep it vertical

 

[Dash_Riprock]

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[Mambo Dave]

And the tension on the line, when not buoyant, gives the reeler a good reference point for a rate of ascent and, more usefully, holding points. Instead of staying at a stop for however-many minutes and watching a depth guage incessantly, occasional checks of the depth and just maintaining the grasp on the tight line / spool will help a diver stay at a depth.

 

[Fastmarc]

Good info. Thanks.
Any spool you guys can recomend?

 

[H2Andy]

they're pretty simple devices. you can try Ebay to try and get some used ones
(it's basically a plastic reel, cave line, and a double-ender clip).

scubatoys has this one:

http://scubatoys.com/store/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=FingerSpool

 

[Fastmarc]

Thanks, Andy.