flags and clips

[triplefin]

What size/type of clip do you all find the most useful to attatch to your DSMB in order to clip it to a wreck etc making it easier to inflate?

Having read a lot of posts on here recently about flags and have decided to invest in one. Have read about fixing it to your cylinder with bungee how easy is this to then remove - I dont have very long arms!

[TerryH]

Originally Posted by triplefin

What size/type of clip do you all find the most useful to attatch to your DSMB in order to clip it to a wreck etc making it easier to inflate?

Having read a lot of posts on here recently about flags and have decided to invest in one. Have read about fixing it to your cylinder with bungee how easy is this to then remove - I dont have very long arms!

Anything as long as it's not a snaplock.
Diver onboard this w/end with nothing but piston clips and just one
suicide clip on torch. As he went down it snapped over the shot and
he got caught.

If ever there was a scenario about not having suicide clips this proved it
perfectly. Make sure you have piston clips.

TerryH

[Gareth Burrows]

you can pull the flag from the bottom of your twins easy enough, but its well worth practicing regularly as when you need to do it you will not want to muck about.

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by triplefin

What size/type of clip do you all find the most useful to attatch to your DSMB in order to clip it to a wreck etc making it easier to inflate?

I have a meter of half inch tape with a piston clip on each end. It does all the tying down jobs. It ties down a DSMB reel easily because they is normally something you can loop something that long round and it once tied a buddy down while we mended his weight belt clip.

[triplefin]

thanks guys

Just realised that i have a suicide clip for my torch, had forgotten all bout the warnings that i heard when I first started diving. Find it difficult to release those piston clips with gloves on underwater but I must obviously persevere.

cheers

[Steve Summers]

Originally Posted by triplefin

Have read about fixing it to your cylinder with bungee how easy is this to then remove - I dont have very long arms!

as Garf said pull it from the bottom and you won't need long arms also make sure the bobble on the wrist lanyard is below your last bungee and wrapped in the flag itself as they can get trapped also use bungee elastic as opposed to inner tube pieces as they are tight and can be a little harder to remove your flag.

Safe diving,
Steve.

[biker bob]

I use surgical tubing to attach a flag to my cylinder

[Little Pete]

I've never really found the need to tie down my DSMB when launching as it doesn't need too much air so as long as you're launching reasonably deep (if tying to the wreck I guess you are) there shouldn't be much of a problem.

Having said that, Nigel's method of the half meter tape with a clip each end sounds pretty damn useful. Could even be used for loads of things on the boat if need be

[Gareth Burrows]

I once tied a buddy to a wreck using the exact same method when they lost control of their bouyancy. I had to clip them off so I could swim up and drag her legs back down, as there was so much gas in her suit her fins had popped off and she couldn't get her legs down below her body

fun, fun fun.

Actually, it would have been a damn sight easier to just clip my reel to her and use her as an smb. Wonder why that never occurred at the time.

[Little Pete]

It would work best with one of the big OMS wings. Bright red and approximately the same size as a Humber RIB