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Date:          Tue, 16 Apr 96 13:46:13 EST
From:          "Andrew Cohen" <Andrew_Cohen@cc*.ss*.nm*.go*>
To:            techdiver@terra.net
Subject:       inflatable surface marker buoy 

     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

Andy:
I saw a "saftey Sausage" as you described made by carter lift bags. 
However  I was unable to find any to buy, so I made them myself.
They are "KISS" simple. Aprox 5 foot tall and 7 inches wide, open at 
the bottom with a nylon strap and brass clip at the bottom. 
They have no dump valves, and you fill them just as you would a 
simple lift bag. They are made of the same material as Carter Lift 
Bags and are the same color. 
They are very visible! And a real good idea to have. 
i am not manufacturing them but i do have a few left.

Tom Surowiec 
SEEKER Dive Charters
New Jersey

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