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What's your opinion on using lines in and on wrecks?  Any new tricks 
out there?

My ideas are:

1. To penetrate wreck sites:
I use a line in-and-out when penetrating more than one room or two, or 
in a single room (or area) when that area that is large and confused. 

Except: In certain situations I will penetrate multiple rooms without a 
line.  This necessitates learning the geography dive-by-dive.  Started 
doing this on the San Diego wreck off Long Island in the early 80's, 
because of its size and complexity.  Today, these situations are 
usually on deep sites when bottom time is too limited to lay a line 
properly.  

2.  I will use a "cross-wreck" line tied near the anchor if I want to 
make sure I end up back on the anchor line.  Example, when oxygen is 
hung, doing gas switches on mix schedule or in bad surface conditions. 

3.  Pertaining to 2, above.  I routinely carry gas to do schedule even 
if I can't get back to the hook. I use an up-line tied at bottom to 
wreck and run a lift bag to surface. Will also use up-line technique to 
make exploration out over the site, knowing I won't come back to 
anchor.  I find its a good idea to tell the mate or Captain when this 
is being done. Final way I use the up-line is as a kite. Just let go of 
the wreck and hang down off the bag as it floats in current. This is 
especially useful off of North Carolina in monster currents, because 
you can't fight the current during decom. QuestionS: Has anybody come 
up with an easy way to deal with swamped bags when using an up-line?  I 
keep extra small bag on a reel.  Any other ideas on dealing with 
monster currents during decom?

Tom Carroll

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