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This is basically how we do it. We use lightweight gear to hook the wreck, We don't have the visibility (max is about 30feet) to drift into the wrecks. Hooking is mandatory with current, or we use a torpedo anchor in no current areas. Also, we use free boats (one per team) and the disconnect the gear at the end of the dive and drift. One of the keys in heavy current or long (over 1 hour) decos is to use safety divers. We use strictly scooters (some with video) and 104s. not everyone has rb's. 104's are a bit much on board, but hold adequate gas for the bigger stuff. We'd be taking either one or two extra stages for the bigger stuff we do if we went with AL80, so we opt for the steels. Plus the water temp makes steels worthwhile. We are currently trying to develop some documentation of DIR boat diving, and once we get everything together, we will publish it on scret.org. At 05:47 AM 3/6/2001 -0500, Trey wrote: >Kev, these guys bounce to a wreck and spend two minutes and call it 30, and >then deco for a week. That is the one or two they actually hit. The rest are >sand drift dives in the Gulf Stream that take all day. > >When we do it we get my brother's or fathers boat or charter other persons >who have fast boats with excellent fishing sounders that will mark anything, >and sometimes we run a second boat as well. We mark them with the Cuban hand >reel and grouper ball with the freediving float and then scooter from up >current down to the line and then along the line below the current to the >wreck, and when we are done, we cut the grouper ball off and reel up the >float line and deco out on the drift. I have a stockpile of 40 pound iron >"balls" for this. They hit every time with the Cuban reel and the tuna line >... For longer projects, we charter a boat for the time it takes to get it >done, like the Bahamian stuff that Carmichael was doing. That was all >massive depth and no bullshit or misses - ever. > >For the regular weenie wrecks we mark them with a hook and line and scooter >in, secure the line, dive, then pull the hook and drift with the float. > >Scooters and rebreathers for the crazy stuff. Double 80's for the weenie >wrecks. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Kevin Connell [mailto:kevin@co*.ne*] >Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 8:59 PM >To: dwiden@ho*.co*; vbtech@ci*.co*; captjt@mi*.co* >Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com >Subject: RE: Deep wreck in FL > > >You guys sure get your panties in a wad easy. > >The point is this: You can kill yourself doing anything. Using the >argument "people die on rebreathers" is not a reason not to dive one in >general. What's next? Don't use a proper scooter because they might >actually allow you to get something done on a dive and you only can find >one wreck a year so you might get bored? > >At 08:00 PM 3/5/2001 -0500, David B. Widen wrote: > >Kevin > > > >So what is the purpose of your post. If you have nothing reasonable (good >or > >bad) to say about an activity then do not waste the bandwidth. > > > >David > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: listowner@ci*.co* [mailto:listowner@ci*.co*]On > >Behalf Of Kevin Connell > >Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 3:08 PM > >To: trey@ne*.co*; vbtech@ci*.co*; captjt@mi*.co* > >Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com > >Subject: RE: Deep wreck in FL > > > > > >JT, Do you drive a car? Ride in an airplane? I'm not even sure you can > >walk, because legs have been known to kill people. > >-- >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'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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