Madison Blue Question

[JP]

I remeber doing a training dive in there and my primary light had failed at the surface so I got my big pelican out to be my primary, well i was running the reel and it was high flow and the pelican was hard to hold and it was a cluster f***

My instructor is ahead of me and getting impatient, I hit that gold line and tie off and try and catch my instructor. I finally catch up to him and he had went down the wrong lead to the godzilla room he turns around and gives me the reel sign. I start looking around and my heart sinks. He writes me a note that says,"where is our reel" My heart sinks I am looking around for the gold line but it aint there no mo!

Then it was a trust me dive, I'd be lying if I didnt think to myself what if this guy dies?

I had tied off on that horshoe line and then didnt keep my eye on it as i chassed after my CI

[normblitch]

Why, Yes, as a matter of fact, I actually did......

A PADI AOW card from Wes Skiles, an NSS Cavern Card from Mary Ellen (Eckhoff) Exley, and a YMCA Cave card from Sheck Exley

Norm
ran with a bad crowd

(certified OT-er here)

It was/is called the Horseshoe Line...

Back in the 'day, MANY of us used it as a Trainer Dive...still a good one (assuming someone has pulled the line out of the silt in a few places...) for that period between Cavern & Intro...nice place to practice high flow as well.

Norm

Did you get a card with that cert? I actually did quite a bit of my training at Madison Blue with Harry Averill and Lloyd Bailey and I believe both of them called it the Sucker Line--Oh well, who knows how many different things it has been called.

Jerry