Tautaz(Offline)

Hi all,

I was talking with a friend of mine how to deal a blocked line on dive gear and realize that I'm not sure about the "DIR" way to do it...

In France we use reel, snoopyloop x 3 and line cutter.

Put a snoopyloops on the line the way we see, knot the line with the snoopyloops of the reel pull 1m of line and go thought the other snoopyloop.

make a knot, put a snoopyloop on the way we except the exit is(lost diver in low viz)

Cut the main, but in parrellel there is the rescue line tied on the main line.

Is DIR way use a spool, tie the spool loops over the main line, put an arrow, unroll 1m make a knot on the main line tight the line and cut?

thank you


David

Joe Hesketh(Offline)

You’re talking about having to cut yourself out of the mainline and then repair it right?

Don’t know whether GUE have a specific procedure (it wasn’t in my Cave 1), however Fred Devos taught me the following procedure (as best I can remember it) the year before that so I’d imagine it’s pretty close.

Signal your team, let them try and untangle you. If it’s so bad that they can’t, get them on the exit side of the line and let them know you’re going to cut it. Take a line arrow and attach it on the exit side of you pointing out. Holding on to the arrow, cut the line making sure you have a good length of line from the arrow to the cut. The other end will spring back a long way so watch where it goes and don’t let go of that arrow! Then tie a large loop in the mainline you’re holding onto (nothing fancy, just double it over and tie a couple of double overhand knots). Take out your safety spool and loop it through and back on itself using the loop you’ve just created. Then go off looking for the other end of the mainline. Tie another loop in the end of that (clip the spool to yourself while you do that) and pull the whole lot taught with the spool. Then tie that off and cut out your spool.

As ever, prevention is better than cure (i.e. signal and wait for your team to deal with the tangle rather than thrashing around making it worse and having to cut the line)

HTH
Joe

Tautaz(Offline)

It's all logical when in team diving

In France a la Française way of diving aka solo, it's the way used.

Thanks.


David