Yup...don’t drop your stuff...it’s bad form. Lol
Winding up reel / spool on deco ascents
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Yup...don’t drop your stuff...it’s bad form. Lol
I re-spooled 30m on the boat once. If I had 50, I think I would have balled it up and thrown it away.
NOW you tell me, I could have saved so much time!
Something else to consider: Its pretty important to have the reel or spool deployed in a way that it can be jettisoned easily. One of the reasons is, for example, a boat going over the bag and dragging you up (I believe it was @boulderjohn that had an incident with some yahoo pulling his float out of the water and trying to abscond with it while he was on the other end?)
In that case, a double ender and 20 feet of line below you whizzing up fast is IMO very likely to ruin your day.
In that case, a double ender and 20 feet of line below you whizzing up fast is IMO very likely to ruin your day.
Same thing happened to a friend of mine when some yahoo on a jetski pulled this stunt in the St. Lawrence river.
The method you describe is a great way to recover a dropped spool.
*something happens* ‘d’oh!’ ... did anyone else notice? Yup, crap.
Wait! Time to show them a neat trick! Pull out your double ender that was supposed to lock the spool, or worst case, the spare you have.
Grab the flailing line and put the double ender on it above where you grabbed. Start polling up on the line (causing the double ender to go down in the loop of slack.
Grab the spool, and start to wind it up in shame.
Grab the double ender and lock it, or move up in the water column as required.
No fuss on the boat and you get to show off a trick.
The double ender keeps the slack from birdnesting and getting caught up as easily in something or someone.
_R
*something happens* ‘d’oh!’ ... did anyone else notice? Yup, crap.
Wait! Time to show them a neat trick! Pull out your double ender that was supposed to lock the spool, or worst case, the spare you have.
Grab the flailing line and put the double ender on it above where you grabbed. Start polling up on the line (causing the double ender to go down in the loop of slack.
Grab the spool, and start to wind it up in shame.
Grab the double ender and lock it, or move up in the water column as required.
No fuss on the boat and you get to show off a trick.
The double ender keeps the slack from birdnesting and getting caught up as easily in something or someone.
_R
lermontov
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can just imagine a group of divers all moving at different points in the water column with loops dangling down on each other
That is what Team diving is all about: screwing up together.
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