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These things are easily available in the uk, from sausage type shapes to the more supportive pear shaped varieties with a lift capacity of 50kg (100+lbs). We generally deploy these from the wreck to surface if we cannot get back to the shot line.We use tape in a bag rather than a reel and line, we find that tape never gets tangled and it can be deployed totally remote from the diver meaning no possibility of being entangled and lifted by the buoy. It gives warning to the surface boat that you are remote from the marker buoy and allows the boat to follow you during the deco. You are probably familiar with the trapeze type disconnect deco station for the rest of the team.Basically everybody drifts on deco and gets picked up by the boat on surfacing This allows us to dive in our short tidal windows and deco safely in the now running tide. contact numbers are Bowstone products, use my name and ask for Simon. fax 061-443 1508 If you want further info or are unclear of anything then contact me. In message <9603168296.AA829699308@cc*.ss*.nm*.go*>, Andrew Cohen <Andrew_Cohen@cc*.ss*.nm*.go*> writes > I am looking for a surface marker buoy that can be deployed by a diver > at depth, like a liftbag, will stand up on the surface like a safety > sausage, and will stay inflated. I want to use it in conjunction with > an upline. > > Billy Deans showed me a surface marker that looked like a heavy duty > safety sausage. It had a flapper valve at the base that allowed a > diver to inflate it at depth with a puff from a regulator, and then > remained inflated after it'd deployed on an upline. It was bright red > and more easily spotted from a chase boat than a liftbag. > > Does anyone know where these things are sold? Billy mentioned that his > was of European manufacture. (I'd ask him, but the guy is as hard to > catch as smoke). > > Andy Cohen > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. -- john thornton
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