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On Tue, 11 May 1999, A.J. Murphy wrote: > Do any of you folks carry a "Jersey" emergency ascent reel? Yes, till now at least. Its a small spool of about the same proportions as the ones you've seen wound with sisal, this one is only about a foot long and 4" in diameter, wound with 1/8" braided nylon. All last season I kept it strapped to my right-hand cylinder using sections of truck tire inner tube. It was easy enough to deploy (yes, I have had to do it both in training and "for real"). But there were a few times when I got back on board the boat after an uneventful dive that I noticed the spool had worked itself toward the rear of the cylinder, which would have made it impossible for me to reach. Over the winter just passed there was a discussion about this, you should be able to find it in the archives. Lots of good points were made. I'm convinced that one needs to carry a reel or spool dedicated to the purpose. Using a large enough wreck reel wound with heavy line is fine, but you can't be using that for navigation as well - Murphy could have you need to make an ascent after you've laid out enough line that you wouldn't be able to reach the surface. I like my spool as there are no moving parts, nothing to jam. I just need to find a decent way to carry it. I'm tempted to try leaving it on the cylinder, but change the rubber band arrangement in some way that keeps it up against the wings. The next most reasonable alternative is on the crotch strap below the cylinders. I'll try both in the quarry before getting out on a boat. -- Art Greenberg artg@ec*.ne* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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