Gold line

[diveconjeff]

While you may not need a 400 foot primary in No FL for the entrance, there certainly are dives away from the gold line where a 400 footer would be advisable.

[Six Feet Under]

If conditions are bad enough, if you have to tie off at the steps in OG you get close. I don't know what the actual distance is, but it's well over 200ft. P3 used to be pretty far back as well but they moved the line VERY close to the open water zone.

That happened to us in my Intro class and I remember the reel seeming rather empty by the time we got to the sign and tied into the gold line.

[Sludge]

That happened to us in my Intro class and I remember the reel seeming rather empty by the time we got to the sign and tied into the gold line.

I remember running the primary reel to the Peanut Tunnel in Apprentice class (when the gold line began in the actual Peanut Tunnel). I ran out of line about six feet from where the gold line began. My instructor handed me a jump reel to go those last six feet.

[Kafkaland]

Mexico has many mainline far from ow.
Naharon comes to mind

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And in one case this has contributed to a double fatality, at Mayan Blue. The divers were diving the B/E tunnels, and inadvertently jumped over to the A tunnel, and reached the exit end of that line. But the line terminus is so far in the tunnel that they couldn't see daylight and they thought they had reached the other end of the line and turned around, and perished deep inside A tunnel.

[Brent]

And in one case this has contributed to a double fatality, at Mayan Blue. The divers were diving the B/E tunnels, and inadvertently jumped over to the A tunnel, and reached the exit end of that line. But the line terminus is so far in the tunnel that they couldn't see daylight and they thought they had reached the other end of the line and turned around, and perished deep inside A tunnel.

I was down there when that accident happened. As you mentioned, the gold line was about 25 feet back from it's present location which put it just out of the daylight zone. No disrespect meant, but that accident should not have happened. Once you jump onto the A line ( either by accident or deliberate ) you encounter a LOT of markers all pointing towards the exit and yet when the divers reached the end of the line and made the decision to turn around, they appearently ignored all the dorf markers and continued on into the cave until they both ran out of air.