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At 04:30 AM 14/02/1996 -0800, gmiiii@in*.co* wrote: > > Up and down lines. Are your wrecks intact enough > to tell which is port and starboard, bow and stern, > or are they amorphous? Some are intact & easy. Others are junkyards. A line is sometimes handy on the debris fields especially out around the edges where the stuff is spread out beyond visibility. >What line do you guys put on the reel to prevent >cutting on the metal? -G 3mm polypropylene. it arches up clear of the bottom when you run it horizontal, so it doesn't get snagged. It doesn't stretch much either. Tied off round pipe, rubble or boulders or using a big suicide clip to keep it off sharp edges. The wrecks are 3km or more offshore. The boats anchor into the wrecks. Teams dive independently but all drop within about 10min. We come up the anchor line and cross over to hang off shot lines. Last team up throws the anchor off the wreck and we drift with the boat for deco. For lift-bag deco one option is tying off to the bottom which works great if there's not much current. In a fierce current a better option is to not tie into the bottom, and drift instead. The boat'll be drifting along anyway when the last team leaves the wreck. The boat's never misplaced a diver yet. Well, not for too long, anyway. George, I mailed the code of practice yesterday. And Esat. I still can't understand your inference that anyone who runs a wreck line is, per se, a stroke. Making a dive harder than necessary is seriously damaged thinking. More so when you need to be productive on the dive. Bring it back to the list so we can finish figuring it out. rgrds billyW
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