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Kevin, One reason could be shipping lanes and the fact the boat is anchored into the wreck. Many times when doing surface you can almost read the name of the tanker going by. I'm not very good at judging distance but it seems they are real close (1/4 - 1/2 mile maybe?). They easily see the boat on radar and give a berth but a bag they won't see and even if they did, wouldn't be too much they could do about it. If you're connected to the wreck at least you're usually within 700 feet of the boat. What about if you're the first person in and the last person won't be up from deco for another hour or two? You can drift quite a way in 2 hours. Not all boats here have a chase boat, only the bigger ones. Not meant as a flame, just a reply. Art. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Connell [mailto:kevin@nw*.co*] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 10:10 AM To: techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Re: Jersey ascent line ??? Although I've never dove on the east coast, I don't understand why the conditions there are any different then the conditions here in the northwest. Low vis, high current, cold water. We don't get the swells inland, but I don't see why that matters. No one here uses an "upline". Liftbag and drifting deco is the norm, some keep the hook on the wreck were it can unsnagged from the surface and deco on the anchor line. At 08:54 AM 5/12/1999 -0400, you wrote: >On Wed, 12 May 1999, William Allen wrote: > >> I really believe for most Jersey divers an up line is a good safety feature >> that you'll never need with proper skills. They remind me a little of >> training wheels at some point they can come off. > >This completely ignores the very real possiblity of the tie-in failing. >The accepted local practice requires an upline in this case; no NY/NJ boat >captain is going to move back in with divers in the water unless he can >see them on the surface, and drifting ascents are just not the norm here. > >-- >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'. > ----------------------------------------------- Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*> NW Labor Systems, Inc http://www.nwls.com And I suppose you want a user interface with that..... ----------------------------------------------- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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