Drop Bottle

[gobfish1]

Originally Posted by Scubee

its one of the reasons if i (or the club) book a whole boat, the full fee is divided by 10 - to make room for all the shit... i mean kit... ...

we make 12 pay and two get kitted up in there bunks ,,

[Janos]

Originally Posted by stevechesh

i'd even forget the skipper clipping it onto your line anyway.

1. He/she would have a right royal pain to come along side, stick the boat in neutral, walk out of the cabin, grab the hook, lift your line, hook it the cylinder on, drop the cylinder down, and all whilst competeing with wind and tide, and trying not to drag you up

To be fair, skippers are fairly used to picking up DSMBs when the reel has jammed and the diver has let go of the reel. Surely it's something similar.

Janos

[Scubee]

Originally Posted by Janos

To be fair, skippers are fairly used to picking up DSMBs when the reel has jammed and the diver has let go of the reel. Surely it's something similar.

Janos

And if you have sent your yellow blob up, i would have thought you would be expecting somethign, so would have the reel prepared so that you weren't dragged up.

[stevechesh]

well the ones i've spoken to have pretty much said that they'd only drop the bottle in, and not try and clip it etc.

I'd like to see a skipper try it (not for real obviously), just to see how long and how much faff there is involved. I still think it's easier to just chuck a tank over the side with a buoy attachedas close tothe SMB as possible....

[Garf]

Originally Posted by Scubee

I have decided that when i go on a boat, I need to be prepared just in case it goes a bit pear shaped. Not that i plan on it going wrong, but anythign can happen.

I plan on taking a drop bottle with me, which i will explain when to deploy it etc to the skipper.

What is the best way to rig it? I think it will be a 7l ali, and probably on about 6m of rope. I need it to be a non-permanent rig (so that if I need to, I can use a 10l or 12l).

My question, basically, is how do you rig yours? (pics might be helpful ) And what do you have in it?

based on the deco profiles we compared you can wait at 6 metres whilst i finish my deco, get back on the boat, have a cup of tea, maybe a quick kip, then strap on the backup tank and come down and join you for the rest of your deco

[Janos]

Originally Posted by Garf

based on the deco profiles we compared you can wait at 6 metres whilst i finish my deco, get back on the boat, have a cup of tea, maybe a quick kip, then strap on the backup tank and come down and join you for the rest of your deco

And in ten years time we'll see whether you did enough or not

Janos

[Garf]

Originally Posted by Janos

And in ten years time we'll see whether you did enough or not

Janos

you have a fair point sir.

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by stevechesh

well the ones i've spoken to have pretty much said that they'd only drop the bottle in, and not try and clip it etc.

I'd like to see a skipper try it (not for real obviously), just to see how long and how much faff there is involved. I still think it's easier to just chuck a tank over the side with a buoy attachedas close tothe SMB as possible....

I have done it twice in practice and once in anger and its worked no problem so far.

Just chucking in the tank is daft because it coud be 3m away and you cant see it. They must clip it on the line or use a loop over the smb

ATB

Mark

[Janos]

Originally Posted by stevechesh

well the ones i've spoken to have pretty much said that they'd only drop the bottle in, and not try and clip it etc.

I'd like to see a skipper try it (not for real obviously), just to see how long and how much faff there is involved. I still think it's easier to just chuck a tank over the side with a buoy attachedas close tothe SMB as possible....

Maybe. I am undecided. In poor viz you might not see it, but when I used a drop bottle for real it was fine and I could see it. I worry with sliding down the line that it might get stuck. I think the best thing to do is to tell the skipper to try and get the buoys tangled up.

Janos

PS - If anyone wants a sofnalime tub, I have one in the shed, I'll have a second in a mo, and please take them off my hands as they're a pain to recycle.

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by gobfish1

so what sort of dive, s would need a drop tank then ,,
what are we talking about 30m dive 20 mins deco or much more ,,

More

I take a drop tank whan I am planning more than an hours deco OC. On CCR I take it when I have over 90mins deco. There are gas management bailout options that dictate this.


ATB

Mark