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ffdiver5597
03-18-2011, 11:36 AM
I'm about half way through the book and I'm just absolutely blown away by Sheck's dives as a kid. I have a new found respect for the rules from reading where they come from.

As I was reading the first few chapters It boggled my mind the choices he made, it all seems like common sense now but back then they didn't have a clue and it was amazing just to see that he was able to get out of those situations.
FW
03-18-2011, 11:44 AM
Yea, he must not have read Cousteau's books. I knew to use a line from his first book. Actually, my first "line" was 9mm climbing rope :-)
ffdiver5597
03-18-2011, 11:52 AM
doing the majority of my normal dives tethered to the surface, my first time in a cave the gold line looked very flimsy.
FW
03-18-2011, 11:54 AM
doing the majority of my normal dives tethered to the surface, my first time in a cave the gold line looked very flimsy.
If you thought goldline looked flimsey, you can imagine my shock when I saw Sheck using #18 "kite string" :-D
Bobby
03-18-2011, 08:18 PM
If you thought goldline looked flimsey, you can imagine my shock when I saw Sheck using #18 "kite string" :-D

Come on FW, we still use #18 today. Well okay not wound kite string! :D

Bobby
AMW
03-19-2011, 05:19 AM
I normally use 4mm polypropylene, good wear characteristics and floats above the silt.

Although in this junction (not my line) the red line is parachute cord :?

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/AMWard/IMG_0400.jpg

Andrew
FW
03-19-2011, 06:16 AM
I normally use 4mm polypropylene, good wear characteristics and floats above the silt.

Although in this junction (not my line) the red line is parachute cord :?

Andrew
OMG! The CDG is using line arrows!!! When did that start? When I first joined many years ago, they refused to use them :-)
Slüdge
03-19-2011, 11:08 AM
Those are "Wilson arrows," sir. Learn your nomenclature!
ffdiver5597
03-19-2011, 11:12 AM
Ok I'm lost is that a T or a 4 way intersection?
AMW
03-19-2011, 12:24 PM
The CDG is using line arrows!!!

Well I do I could never get on with clothes pegs :clapper


Ok I'm lost is that a T or a 4 way intersection?

T junction one line goes to a belay the sump is the Source Bleue Montperreux

Andrew
Brian Kakuk
03-19-2011, 05:03 PM
Yea, he must not have read Cousteau's books. I knew to use a line from his first book. Actually, my first "line" was 9mm climbing rope :-)

Actually Cousteau nearly died in blue holes here in the Bahamas when his crew was swimming through SB-4 with magnesium flares and NO guidelines. If it werent for cave diver George Benjamin (inventor of the "Benji valve"..aka crossover manifold), Cousteau and his crew would still be in SB-4 holding their flares with empty tanks. George went in and guided them out on his line, era 1970.
FW
03-19-2011, 07:03 PM
Actually Cousteau nearly died in blue holes here in the Bahamas when his crew was swimming through SB-4 with magnesium flares and NO guidelines. If it werent for cave diver George Benjamin (inventor of the "Benji valve"..aka crossover manifold), Cousteau and his crew would still be in SB-4 holding their flares with empty tanks. George went in and guided them out on his line, era 1970.
Well, he KNEW better!