Vehicle Recovery Problem

[vincentb]

I am not sure how one would do it, but if you could get your agency to require that a truck with a dedicated recovery winch show up, there is a product called "Plasma Rope" that would fit your bill. That, or carry Plasma Rope with your recovery dive gear to hook to the main tow-truck cable.

If it pulls very large 4x4's up hills and out of deep mud, it should easily pull the poor-excuses for 'full-sized cars' they try to sell us today.

In addition, it should be much safer for the recovery divers' equipment (and hands) in that it won't have the frayed pieces of wire next to your drysuit and/or equipment while you are swimming / walking / crawling / diving.

This kind of rope floats, light weight, excellent for water rescue.