surface marker buoy? round or torpedo shaped

[ballastbelly]

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its time to buy a new buoy, after 2 years no longer holds air & looks more like a melted marshmellow than a round flag bouy.

i can choose between a torpedo type or another round one. price is similar. i read torpedo will be less pulled around by current & wind. if torpedo have this advantage, why do they still make the round ones? are they really more visible?

 

[Johnoly]

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i can choose between a torpedo type or another round one.

We use both. The solid foam Torpedo floats have less drag, but in stronger currents they tip forward when you hook off on a reef. If you have a flag on it then it's harder to see. To solve that problem, we use 2 torpedo floats with 4 ft of line between them. The 2nd one has the flag incase the front one gets pulled slightly under when hooked off. It's our preferred system to dive with.

With a round ball, you don't have that major front tipping problem since it's round. It could still be pulled under by current but in most cases the flag stays upright to be seen.

If you have 3, 4, or 5 knot currents, use torpedo's. Otherwise just use a ball that's the proper size that you can't pull under.

Don't ask me about kelp intanglements, I'm from the other coast.

 

[MAKO Spearguns]

A streamlined float is much easier to tow. We offer a choice of "soft" (inflatable) and hard towable floats, both have ballast necessary to keep a dive flag upright. If space is not an issue, it is hard to beat the ruggedness of a hard float..

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