Have you ever tried it?  It's not nearly as hard as you make it sound.
Like I said, in an emergency you tie it off, read the post again Joel.
If for some reason you can't find the hook it's not that big of a deal.
If you're panicked then tie and cut.  If you're stressed then tie it off
and cut, I think these all fall under an emergency situation which I
addressed in the initial post.  Really depends on the situation.  I
usually do a few training bags a year and I don't tie them off.  If
you're going to tie it off each time you shoot a bag then maybe you
should be carrying Hemp....

Art.


		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Joel Silverstein
[mailto:joelsilverstein@wo*.at*.ne*]
		Sent:	Wednesday, May 12, 1999 10:54 AM
		To:	Paltz, Art; ajmurphy@sn*.ne*; Mailing Tech
Diver List (E-mail)
		Subject:	RE: Jersey ascent line ???

		At 09:25 AM 5/12/1999 -0400, Paltz, Art wrote:
		>Contact Trader John.  He's got small SS ones with 250'
of nylon line.
		>Problem with nylon line is that it doesn't rot away
like sisal (SP?).
		>With 250' of nylon you can loop it around a bar or
friendly piece of
		>wreckage.  You can then hold the spool and go up.
Basically you use
		>twice as much line but you can recover it and not
litter the wreck.
		>Naturally in a real emergency you'd apologies to the
environment and
		>just shoot the bag and tie it off and not worry about
it.
		>

		Geeeez ------ 

		Art -- if one is going to use this convolution at least
try not to strangle
		yourself with it -- please .... you shoot the bag -- you
tie off the line
		-- you cut the reel from the line -- you clip that big
hunk of junk back on
		and you go up the line --- you do your stops -- you get
to the surface you
		pray the boat saw your little lift bag -- if now you
whip out your little
		safety sausage and wave that a bit then you fire off
your dive alert --- if
		you still have no attention you take out your safety
flares and blow them
		off --- ........

		now do you reallly want to be worrying about the line
being recovered .....

		Do it right or dont do it at all.

		regards 
		jds 


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