You tilt slightly head down so the air stays in the bottom of the bc where the leak isn't, relax and do a normal ascent.
Assuming it didn't fail on the descent where you don't already have enough gas in the bladder to sustain your current depth, let alone increasing depth via an uncontrolled descent.
First, my spool is always attached to my bag, and there's nothing to tangle. I don't use a reel with a lift bag because it can foul.
You must carry some pretty big spools to be able to deploy a LB at depth. Most spools are for running jumps and deploying a bag from a decompression stop. I have a lot of spools and a lot of reels. If I'm deploying a LB from depth, I'm using something that will allow some scope in current. A 50 to 125 foot spool is going to be useless from a deep wreck. If you are blue water, then it will work from the max depth of the line, but you'd better hope you aren't in an uncontrolled descent in blue water relying on a 125 foot finger spool. :shocked2:
Second, nothing that's attached to the outside world (filled bags, lines, whatever) ever gets attached to me.
In this situation, it would be prudent. Use whatever method you'd like. Your wing is attached to you. Your drysuit is attached to you. A LB being used for bouyancy should be attached to you. The loss of that bouyancy device would be akin to a puctured drysuit of just plain taking your wing off. You would do or want that, so why would you send your last ditch bouyancy control device to the surface? You may want to rethink that one. Sending a LB to the surface on a line makes it a Surface Marker Bouy, not a bouyancy control backup.
In any case, I can pull out the other bag and spool and deploy it.
I'll buy that. I mentioned that in an above post.
NoMy buddy already cut the line. If I have a bag and a spool out, he's got a cutting tool.
Actually yes. I always bring two of each.
Always a good plan. I keep a cutting tool close to my chest area for this reason. (tangled line, spool with a shooting bag on the other end, etc...)
You're welcome to do this, but I prefer to have the bag on the surface and just roll up the spool as necessary. It's much easier to move up a foot by rolling up a foot of line than by riding a floppy half-inflated bag.
Don't forget, you have no bouyancy control in this exercise. You are negative and possibly descending during the process. Reeling up an extra 15 lbs is a lot harder than most people think using a 4 inch diameter spool not designed to create leverage.
In fact, this whole scenario is a little contrived, since you would need to have a bunch of dumb things in sequence to get to the point that you're going to "ride the lift-bag pony".
Not really.
1. diving wet with double AL80's
2. wing fails at the elbow (cross threaded from last mx)
3. deploy LB with reel/spool and it fouls (now lost)
4. you'd better have that backup lift device
What would really happen is that I would reach over and grab my buddy, who would adjust his buoyancy to stop our descent. I would point at my BC, extend my middle finger to indicate that it failed, and we would do a normal ascent to the surface.
Good luck with that. Maybe in recreational depths with a hard bottom, there is no issue with this. Go dive a deep wall and see how that works. Your descending to depth and realize you can't stop your descent due to wing failure. Your buddy won't catch you, and you aren't going to catch him. Read the articles on uncontrolled descent. There are incidents with technical divers plumeting to 250 fsw and crashing into the wreck or bottom. No buddy is going to catch them.
In any event, this can be avoided by not doing dumb things.
It doesn't take a dumb thing for this to happen. I've had things fail, as have others around me, that had nothing to do with stupidity.
I won't dive in any configuration that can become negatively buoyant, without redundant buoyancy. That means that steel doubles = wing and drysuit. And my buddy who would happily grab me and haul my butt back to the surface if necessary.
Are you telling me AL80 doubles and a 3mm is neutral? Absolutely, you need redundant bouyancy. That is what we are talking about here. Either a drysuit, or a LB. Sometimes it's hard to see the forest through the trees.
Actually, I've done it and works just fine. Mountain climbers haul their entire body weight up thousands of feet. We're only talking about 20 pounds.
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). But, since doubles were brought into the fray, and some of the posters are doing light tech, spools are out for deep deployment and reels are the tool of the day. 
