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Kevin, my suggestion for these dives is to both have a chase boat, like an inflatable, to limit the number of people in the water at one time, to be sure they are in teams, and to keep the bottom times and decompressions reasonable, to have the plans and profiles including expected deco recorded, to have the main boat detachable from the wreck line with a float and a pelican rig, and to send down safety divers to check on the teams as they acend to be sure there are no problems, pull the unneded gear, and so forth. If it were me, I would run one team at a time, but then I don't deco my buns off . With two boats I would run two teams back to back by the expected bottom time. You know, for the more serious dives, you guys may want to consider working together. If there is one example the WKPP sets, it is getting the impossible done through teamwork. Scaleworks@ao*.co* wrote: > > Thanks George, > > It will be very interesting to see their techniques in action, might give > rise to some further consideration of how deep wreck deco is done in a > howling current up here. When your only options if you lose the anchor line > on the way up, are to surface and get bent or embolize, drift under a bag > with no surface support and hope the CG finds you, or be lucky enough to be > seen from the boat, and it is equiped with a chase boat, kinda makes you want > to stay in your bunk. I know similiar decos have been done on the Lusitania, > however these are shore based operations. Any suggestions on how this could > be accomplished offshore for multi day diving? > > In a message dated 99-08-10 10:51:08 EDT, kirvine@sa*.ne* writes: > > << > Kevin, I'll ask JJ, but I am sure he will be doing it like we always do. > This is warm , clear water as well. The current, much like here in > Florida, is in the first 0-150 feet of water. This allows pulling a > freediving float with cave line and using that as the deco marker. Once > they are decompressing, the boat is drifting with them, just like we do > it here. The float does not sink when stopped. > > I think they will be examining the areas where the liner has damage from > the outside in, rather than diving through the whole ship. This will > make penetrations quick and to the point. With my scooters they can > travel the whole ship in less than ten minutes. > >> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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