Scuba_Steve:
Yes you certainly can tell, who are the "old experienced guys" on a day like yesterday. 37 degree water, and AdvTech is out there working his butt off with stinkin' wet gloves (If they were even that) He may as well have been bare handed. Not only that, he must have been in the water for 40-45 minutes!
Hardcore to the bone. Call me PATSY!
I think we still have the pulley system to do, don't we?
Steve
Everything is complete and the way it should be. The pulley was still attached to the wreck and it was just the line and jug I had to replace. I suspect that it was the light chain that was added for the winter mooring that chaffed the line through as there is nothing else near it. If it had been snagged by an anchor or anything else, the plastic pulley would have let go. Those lines usually last for years. If you plan on running next winter, maybe do away with your chain and just attach your light floating line to the ring at the top of our chains.
Unfortunatley, unlike The Lake Erie moorings we can't leave the heavy line up with a jug attached as the freighters will snag it and do damage to either themselves or the system.
The chain you had problems with was not a problem. My guess is that with no boat attached to add tension, it just untangled itself. There was only one knot right at the top that I had to undo to get room to get a wrench on the shackle pin. I used a 100# bag to send the chain and Pearl Dive Charters anchor to the surface for Johnathon to catch.
The last thing I did was remove the extra shackle where the buoy chain joined the line. I had given Johnahon two in event that one got dropped or lost. They weren't both needed. There was really no need to remove it, but I had to be there for deco anyway. Time passes faster when your having fun.
The 1/8" mitts were fine for the time I was in the water.
I actually prefer them when working with small shackles, tie wraps etc. over my more bulky dry gloves. They have the advantage that you can get them off easily if you need you fingers for something. More important, they go back on easily as well. If going deeper or staying longer, I would have used the dry ones.
A couple of more weeks and we'll start on the Lake Erie ones.
Ian
We had to pull it up the boat ramp with the truck and it took four of us to roll it out of the way. We're planning a driftwood bonfire with everything we picked up yesterday.
