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On Mon, 4 Jul 1994, Alan Wright wrote: > 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 :-) ] Well, you do what I did and you calmly get out your delayed surface marker bouy (in my case, a 90lb lift bag), clip in onto your reel, one third fill it with air (depth >30m) and let it go! Then you just leisurely wind yourself up the line and at about 20m when the vis clears up a bit, you look about and see their bubbles & fin over to them! I always carry a reel & DSMB on wreck dives. Luckily, most of the diving that I do is in reasobably still water. Another thing that I've noticed is that in general (my observations) dive boats in the US like to anchor, whereas, in the UK we drop a shot line & have the dive boat free to roam, (possibly, attached to the shot line, but with the ability to ditch the shot line & leave a large bouy on it at a seconds notice) picking up divers who may drift off the wreck on DSMBs. Gordon
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