The proper way to shoot a surface marker buoy

[Capt Jim Wyatt]

[video=youtube;4zyouIC4XrI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zyouIC4XrI[/video]

Great job Rick.

 

[rhwestfall]

I've been told to not put your finger (thumb in this case) in the spool when it is unwinding, but to cup it in your palm.

 

[fire_diver]

Is this your latest Adv Wreck student again?

 

[Dr. Lecter]

Maybe if you're going for pretty, which it was.


But not if you're going for any kind of buoyancy or buoy visability on the surface. Even shooting from below 200', that little breath is not going to stand up a 4.5' or 6' buoy worth a damn.

 

[Capt Jim Wyatt]

Maybe if you're going for pretty, which it was.


But not if you're going for any kind of buoyancy or buoy visability on the surface. Even shooting from below 200', that little breath is not going to stand up a 4.5' or 6' buoy worth a damn.

It stood about half way out of the water on the surface from about 25 feet. I call it a good shoot, opinions vary.

 

[Dr. Lecter]

It stood about half way out of the water on the surface from about 25 feet. I call it a good shoot, opinions vary.

Bag size used by the student in the video? It looks bigger than a Halcyon "So You Can Pass Fundies" 3' bag, but smaller than a H 4.5' bag. 1/2 way out of the water is what...2' at best?

I'm not knocking pretty deployments as a training exercise, but when I'm coming up from a long, deep dive I want (1) everyone and their mother to be able to see my bag, especially if I'm drifting out in the middle of nowhere; and (2) all the lift I can get to hang under and as a hedge against wing failure, to hold a flooded DPV, whatever. If that means I move a bit up and down while deploying a 6' bag from 200' or more, I really couldn't care less so long as all 6' of the sausage comes out of the water like a Polaris missile on Viagra.

 

[Akimbo]

I've been told to not put your finger (thumb in this case) in the spool when it is unwinding, but to cup it in your palm.

Never been a problem. I could never get my thumb in that little hole without taking a glove off.

 

[tomfcrist]

I've been told to not put your finger (thumb in this case) in the spool when it is unwinding, but to cup it in your palm.

Never been a problem. I could never get my thumb in that little hole without taking a glove off.

That's what she said..

 

[Akimbo]

You use gloves for that?

 

[tomfcrist]

No glove no love....