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John Crea wrote:

> Did you consider hanging a stobe at the anchor line?  I know that
> often this is not a real assist, but if the achor line was really
> as close as you said, it should have been visible from some point
> on the wreck.

Putting a strobe on the line is normal practice for me. Our viz is
so poor and the wrecks large enough that very often we find it
difficult to locate the shot/anchor line even when it is on the
wreck. We also use them at hatches and bulkheads when looking round
the wreck.

[ And now Gordon or Stuart is going to remind me that I didn't do
this when they were visiting - and look what happened then :-) ]

> The best choice, obviously, is to run that reel from the anchor line
> to the wreck, and then put your stobe on the reel where it is fastened
> onto the wreck.

Would the reel line hold if the anchor started to drag? This would
probably be better used with a shot line and SMB, with someone on
the boat standing off a little.

If you're diving off something small, like a RHIB, you can just take
the anchor to the wreck. If you can't see the wreck then one stays on
the anchor line and the other does a sweep search on a reel. When you
hit the wreck (often literally :-)) you just tie of the reel and
follow it back to the anchor. Then bring the anchor to the wreck.

This can use up about 10mins or so of bottom time and a bit of air,
but once you're on the bottom at anything over 100 feet you don't
want to abort the dive unless you really have to.

Alan
awright@gs*.bt*.co*.uk*

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