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A New Jersey reel is a spool of usually sisal which is biodegradable. When wreck diving, if your boat breaks free of the wreck and you have no anchor line to hold onto, you can do a floating decompression, or run a line from the wreck to the surface via lift bag. Then do your required decompression on your own upline. They work well for some people, and others may find them too cumbersome. -----Original Message----- From: Jonas & Lotta Pavletic [mailto:jonas.lotta@ho*.se*] Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 3:09 PM To: techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Re: Deco line question Just to clear my confusion: Can someone please explain how the "Jersey reel" system works (or not works ;) This is something I haven't heard of before... Thanx /Dragan -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Tom & Dee Scott [mailto:cherokee@ne*.ne*] Skickat: den 28 april 2002 16:21 Till: trey@ne*.co*; techdiver@aquanaut.com Ämne: RE: Deco line question Thanks George! I appreciate your honesty. I'm not advocating such things, just sorting out in my head why things I was previously taught may no longer apply to safe diving. Tom ] At 07:39 AM 4/28/02, George Irvine wrote: >If there is no current, staying hooked to the wreck is fine, but >unnecessary. If you have a wreck buoyed , like JJ did on the Britannic or >Deans used to do in the Keys , where there is an upline from the wreck that >stops below the surface with an underwater ball or bag, then the options are >to tie to that with no current or to break from it with lift bag or float if >there is current. > >The "Jersey" reel bullshit is for the Star Wars Bar Scene crowd where there >is no plan, there is no cooperation between divers, where there are no >buddies, where everyone does "their own thing", and is a typical solution >that we get from the bottom of the diving barrel ( the NE). Not to mention >the fact of carrying such a ridiculous piece of crap and running up lines on >everything you dive like a dog pissing on bushes, multiplied by the number >of solo diving tough guys on the boat, etc. is nonsense. > >The real simple way of figuring out if something is bullshit or not in >diving is to ask where it started. If anyone can show me anything EVER >developed in NE diving that is anything but ridiculous, I will give them a >scooter. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Tom Scott [mailto:cherokee@ne*.ne*] >Sent: Friday, April 27, 3612 10:21 AM >To: techdiver@aquanaut.com >Subject: Deco line question > > >Thought I'd try this question here for a horse's mouth answer: Since using a >deco line hooked to the bottom (rather than shooting a bag and drifting) is >considered acceptable by DIR standards (at least it is described in the DIR >Fundamentals book), why has the old "Jersey reel" system fallen so much out >of favor? > > > >The only thing I can think of is that the between the doubles mounting >system could be considered an entanglement hazard. Are there more reasons? > > > >Thanks much, > > > >Tom Scott > > > > >-- >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'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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