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In a message dated 96-02-11 21:01:14 EST,
dwilkins@fi*.co*.co*.uk* (David Wilkins) writes:

>As above, plus why hang on for grim death to a fixed rope in a two knot 
>current when you could have a nice relaxed, unstressful (=safer) deco 
>drifting with the tide with either a communal or separate deco buoys, and 
>with the boat drifting along with you. If you have a long hang, how do you 
>read a book/magazine or whatever streaming like a flag in the tide?
>
>

We dive very differently apparantly. Here, all divers do not eneter the water
at the same time. The time from the first diver entering the water untill the
last could easily be 45 minutes. Some divers will be in the water 20 minutes,
others 2 hours. Then a surface interval follwed by a repeat of the first
dive. Dive sites vary from 45 minutes to 6 hours offshore, with wrecks like
the Doria being as much as 16 hours out from point of departure. Sorry, no
drifting during deco. Upline a must. Yes, it would be nice to float during
deco, but it is not possible here.

We attach a line to the anchor line, then clip it to a d-ring on your harness
for deco. Current, no porblem.

Raimo.

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