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I do not use jersey uplines because of its bulk. When diving current
we always liveboat, so it doesn't matter where we eventually surface.
During hanging decompression dives we inflate a liftbag or a pop
float and drift beneath it. The bag can be attached to a reel, but
more often, I attach a 20 foot line to my bag prior to the dive, so
it's all set to go. I tie a loop in the end of the line, and I can
clip my bug bag, spear or whatever to the end of the line, and avoid
messing with it while I drift.
Perhaps on a charter boat, the captain would like the divers to use
uplines attached to the bottom, so he doesn't have to chase multiple
liftbags. Seems to me a reel could still be used to deploy the line,
but you'd be leaving lots of line lying around afterwards! We only
dive with a few people in the water at a time. Everyone left aboard
the boat has only one responsibility: to support the divers when they
surface.
_____Andy Cohen
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Subject: Up reels
Author: biped@ix*.ne*.co* (L. Allen Beard ) at ~INTERNET
Date: 96/02/05 8:57
Has anyone ever used a line reel with lift bag for an up line rather
than a 'jersey' up reel when wreck diving? Up reels are bulky and it
seems that using a line reel would be more streamlined.
If a line reel is used as an up reel then what size line would be
needed?
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