Tips for Running Line

[RN]

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!

Most of those big, blunt rocks have small nubs on them. You just have to look. I'm with Carl; experience helps.

[sea2summit]

Cold water you really need a tight tolerence reel. I really like the Halcyon primary for this reason, thick gloves you can still hit the side for tension and get a nice smooth feed opposed to the DR that has the ridges for stiffness that catch on thicker gloves when you can't feel them. Another thing is to practice with a spool first then go to a reel after your comfortable.

[TONY CHANEY]

Well to chime in on this one I find that while diving the same quarry as Garth it is much easier to use my OMS reel than the spool. With the reel I can hold the handle and use my fingures to apply tension to the drum. With the spools I am required to hold and pay out line with tension on the spool only. Using neo gloves it is rather hard to hold and decrease tension at the same time. The other factor is that after a while in the quarry, you can't even feel your finger tips. We run lines in the quarry in order to maintain our skills. the only thing that we don't have is flow. I think that if you can run lines in the quarry then you can run them almost anywhere.

[limeyx]

get your buoyancy first before you start futzing with the reel

Invaluable advice IMO

[Jay]

Sometimes the buddy behind the reel-runner has a better view of what is going on. If you will be running a long jump it helps to discuss it before hand and to let the reel-runner know you may be 'tugging' on their line to move or improve placements. Sort of a reverse of the buddy in front of the diver removing a line.

[Garth]

Thanks for the advice. I practice buoyancy on every dive and plan to til I stop diving. And i hope that day is long, long away. I've tried the spools but i don't have a great primary reel for running line. I have a Manta reel for shooting bags, a spool which I like and a dive rite reel which is not the greatest of all things for sure. I suppose I will wait until my cave class to buy a reel at the instructors recommendation although I like what the salvo/halycon version of things.

This is good. Thanks.

[JE]

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[Greenwood_60]

Try this one.

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[LiteHedded]

Invaluable advice IMO

my wise and awesome cavern instructor gave me that bit of advice

[OneBrightGator]

It doesn't relate specifically with running a reel, but a Jasper loop and hairball are invaluable IMO.