Boots and Bands

[Graham Smith]

slightly off topic but how do you find rib diving with twins?
Is it easy enough to jump back on?
Do you use stages as well?
Sorry for all the questions but I sometimes get the opportunity to dive on a rib and always thought it'd be too difficult.
Cheers
Paul

I would say 80% of our members dive twins from the Club RIB and very successfully too!

Yes there is a knack, and so long as there is somebody on top able to help pull the kit in its fine, if not as comfortable as a HB. We also dive with stages, again, not a problem and these are the first to get handed back in to the boat, then weights, goody bag, bell, helm, Makers plate etc (not necessarily in that order)

I have found that a Jon line helps when getting back in in a choppy sea as you can clip the jon line off to a D ring and then hook it to the RIB, gives you a bit morespace and flexibility until youre ready to heave yourself in.

Oh, and I'm not the most popular with heavy Eurocylinders and a 4.5kg V weight...

[Leg Of Salmon]

I suppose its the difference between a commercial set-up and a general club rhib.

This is for a 6.5m or an 8m club rhib. It's not as bad as it sounds. We have had 4 twinsets, an Inspo and 3 stages plus extra clobber on the 6.5 before.

[SoggyFox]

This is for a 6.5m or an 8m club rhib. It's not as bad as it sounds. We have had 4 twinsets, an Inspo and 3 stages plus extra clobber on the 6.5 before.

ahhhh as i said if your going out with that sort of diving in mind, we normally run the rhib with 8 or so on board so adding twinsets makes it very busy.

[dynarob]

RIB diving with twinsets isn't a problem, I do most of my diving off a RIB and I always use either 10's or 12's and as often as not a stage. In some ways it is easier and less stress on the body than a divelift, ie dekit in the water and then enter the RIB in the normal way rather than having to take the whole weight of your kit whilst standing up and then moving through the boat.

As for not enough room - there are 8 of us who regularly go out on a 7m Ribcraft, all with 12l twinsets and we manage easily 4 on each side with 3 sets each side at our feet and another 2 sets up front. I won't get into the logistics of the return journey with rather large quantities of Scallops as that is usually a bit interesting.

The only thing to think carefully about is single piece harnesses, while I am waiting to be picked up I take my dive computer off my right wrist and clip it to the reel - this makes it easier to get my arm through the harness. I am in the process of making up a second backplate with a pinch clip on one strap.

[SoggyFox]

, ie dekit in the water and then enter the RIB in the normal way rather than having to take the whole weight of your kit whilst standing up and then moving through the boat.
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how do you then get the twinset into the rhib?

[David Pye]

Somebody lifts it up and puts it in, while you fin in.

If there isn't someone helpful enough, they hold it in place while you get in and then you haul it up yourself.

I dive the KISS CCR off RHIBs with a stage or so and don't have any real problems :-)

David

[dynarob]

how do you then get the twinset into the rhib?

Same as a single rig, someone pulls from above and the diver pushes from below - it's no effort whatsoever really (or maybe our boatman is a bit well ard). Being boatman and pulling large bags of Scallops in singlehanded without damaging the tubes is a bit of an art though!

Actually I think the hardest part of the process is loading the boat if you don't have a pontoon ie getting your set off the beach, through the water and then launching it into the RIB on your own.

[ardhill]

Chris,

I dived with bootless twins for a while and they work just fine tied to the bottle racks.

[ardhill]

Actually I think the hardest part of the process is loading the boat if you don't have a pontoon ie getting your set off the beach, through the water and then launching it into the RIB on your own.

It's common practice here to load and unload the RIB when it's on it's trailer in the car park. We lift the kit into the RIB, then jump in and arrange it all before it is lanched. The same in reverse when unloading. Though you normally expect all hands at the unloding stage with 1 or 2 people in the RIB and the rest outside on the ground taking the kit of them and setting it down for collection afterwards.