Stoopid line question...

[inkdiver]

Last weekend, at Ginnie, I think on the Bone Line, I noticed a repair. When I looked closely the ends of the line were not frayed. It almost looked like they were melted, but not melted. I had never thought of this before. What method is used to keep the ends of cut line from fraying underwater? By this I mean if the line is cut and repaired underwater, not singed above water.

[Line Squirrel]

WAG - Probably melted before hand and a slip knot was used that tightens up on itself as tension is applied. (tension, in this case, applied by the two ends of the now repaird gold line pulling away from eachother). Again, just a WAG.

[MORGAN]

Or somebody swum down there with a Broco torch and melted 'em.

Mike

[Line Squirrel]

I just knew that U/W welding class would pay off someday

[inkdiver]

WAG - Probably melted before hand and a slip knot was used that tightens up on itself as tension is applied. (tension, in this case, applied by the two ends of the now repaird gold line pulling away from eachother). Again, just a WAG.

I thought the same thing, however, both of the ends (both knots) seemed to be sealed in some way. If someone was going to burn the ends of two pieces at the surface and then go down and tie them together, why not just run a continuous line? Hmmm

[MORGAN]

I just knew that U/W welding class would pay off someday

Do you have the PADI Underwater Welder Diver specialty c-card too?

Mike

[Line Squirrel]

I thought the same thing, however, both of the ends (both knots) seemed to be sealed in some way. If someone was going to burn the ends of two pieces at the surface and then go down and tie them together, why not just run a continuous line? Hmmm

Ok, I'm not following your question and I will apologize in advance but...

A repair is a repair, several feet of gold line at most.

why not just run a continuous line? Hmmm

This is where you lost me!?!

I am knot a not guy (that was intentional) I am under the belief that if you don't know how to tie a knot, tie a lot

Some of the knots I see by people like the line committee for Peacock are ingeanius...I need to learn how. I'm sure there are more than enough divers to show us (me) how. Just a matter of asking.

[icestac]

Why not just take your 50W HID and hold it up against the line? If it can cut an escape hatch through the cave in an emergency, it could surely melt the tips of the line.

Kidding aside, they could have something that generates a lot of heat.

~Jeff

[Serota]

I used this when teaching the Padi "underwater knot tying class":

http://www.tollesburysc.co.uk/Knots/Knots_gallery.htm

Actually, a good reference for knot typing,

[Line Squirrel]

There once was a diver who knew not
How to fix a line with the right knot
He dove in one day
The line he found frayed
But swam past without so much as a plot

The team behind him was pissed
They thought how could this have been missed
To swim past a line
That has limited time
Is something that needs to be fixed

A double limerick