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>
>You Stated:
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>" Finding the anchorline was not tantamount to survival.  
>So, if on occassion you don't find it, just deploy the line & ascend.
>If plan involves going that far from anchor line that you will get 
lost 
>due to inability to navigate by brail, then instead of spending time 
on 
>laying & retrieving a 'way back line', ascend on upline from where you 

>are.  Why spend the time to return."
>
>I agree. But I think the concern here was why carry two reels??? If 
you plan
>on a penetration, or a way back line, carry two reels. And ascending 
in the
>open ocean up in the NA  without an upline attached to the wreck is 
just
>plain stupid. Of course it is done, but that does not mean it should 
be
>reccomended as a safe way of diving.  I don't know of any boat up here 
that
>is going to come and get you (unless you were the only diver in the 
water at
>the time) if you are floating free in the water. Any boat the is going 
to cut
>its anchor line, abandone the remaining divers in the water to 
retrieve the
>idiot floating free because he chose to not use an upline, is a boat 
that I
>would only dive on if it was a wreck!!
>
>
>Safe Diving,
>
>Raimo.
>
Raimo,

I think you got the two posters confused!

I advocate 'attached hanging' & suggested manoeuvers that avoided the 
use of two reels - streamlining being an issue.  THis system works in 
our case where diving is from anchored boats, such a that for macho N. 
Atl divers.

In your relatively abrasive tone you responded to the poster from the 
UK, who was describing what they did there when they dive off live 
boats, cutting him down.  That did very little for your credibility.

I have no idea what your experience etc is, though I have read some of 
your exchanges with George Irvine.  From that I gather that you may be 
an instructor.  Too bad you don't read the material carefully.  And 
that is giving you the benefit of doubt.

Esat Atikkan

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