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"<<*** Shot line diving is not a new technique , Steve Bielenda can tell
you 
storys about how they wreck  dove like this in the fiftys .  This is where  
the dive boat stays "free" and " live" and  the divers jump off and swim down 
to the wreck with only a guide line  and no rope to pull your self down. Its 
a challanging type of diving you must have good boyancy control and swimming 
ability or you can hurt your ears on the way down .>> "

I'd never heard it called this but this is a common technique off North 
Florida and Georgia.  The commercial spearfishermen all dive this way.  It 
beats throwing the anchor out and pulling it back in.  We just throw a marker 
over and follow the line down to the ledge or wreck.  If you allow the 
current to get you off the line in bad vis you probably won't see the 
structure you're trying to dive.  Nothing worse than a 130 foot sand dive. 

regards

George
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