Tips for Running Line

[LCF]

Oh, that is a good one! I started out using my breath to adjust my buoyancy to put in a tie, and found my SAC rate was MUCH higher when running line than when I wasn't. A friend told me to adjust my wing or suit instead, and my gas usage came down considerably.

No tips for cold water practice, except that if you can manage a reel and make nice ties with your gloves on, doing it in warmer water will be a snap! Oh, and try to make sure your gloves aren't too long in the fingers. Extra glove material makes it darned near impossible to handle line well (says a surgeon, who knows . . .)

[Tegg]

Look behind you.

[FW]

Any tips for those people diving in 45 degree quarries looking to start practicing running line? Blue drygloves with liners in them make it a tad difficult.

And now for a serious answer.

Find a shallow quarry. No need to suffer laying line in 45 degrees, when shallow quarries warm up in the summer. There was one that I used in VA, that was mostly deep/cold, but it had a shallow section about 15' deep. It gave better practice, since bouyancy s more critical in shallow water. It got stirred up easily, which added to the realism.

[SuPrBuGmAn]

keep the line tight

Unless you are in tight tunnel and need the line to be able to move to prevent line traps, or avoid snags.

[RN]

Look for the smallest tie off points possible. One thing I see a lot with new or inexperienced divers is tie offs that required them to swim around in circles to lay the line. A tie off point the size of a fist or smaller is all you need.

[Diverlee]

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That was good, I am still laughing.

[chilldive]

Best advice... make your buddy run the line!

[stairman]

Practice with the old Dive-rite reels.

[LCF]

One of the unexpected challenges of Florida was FINDING small tie-off points! I remember running line into the Ginnie Ballroom, and looking around at these big, flat rocks, and wondering how ANYBODY in Florida runs line. Mexico is full of perfect tie-off points -- little stalagmites, or other excrescences. Florida is full of big, blunt rocks. It takes creativity to run line there!

[CGriffing]

Creativity comes from experience.