I have not seen these is shops yet but it looks good.
YouTube - Diving - Straits of Mackinac - Cedarville Shipwreck
YouTube - Diving - Straits of Mackinac - Cedarville Shipwreck
New wreck reel
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You mean this?
You won't. It's an experimental reel that SSI and PADI are using in their new Wreck Penetration Simulation certification course.
You won't. It's an experimental reel that SSI and PADI are using in their new Wreck Penetration Simulation certification course.
Wow. I'm glad the maker did a video and wrote all that good information about the wreck, but there are so many less than optimal or in my opinion unsafe things shown there that I think it's really important that it be said those are not good safety practices. Penetrating a real (as opposed to a prepared, sanitized) wreck at 100 feet in a single tank, with apparently no training in avoiding silting, and with a line system which is cumbersome and set up to encourage entanglement, is not a good idea.
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At 3 minutes in, he ties off. And he ties a knot??
By 4 minutes in, s/he's got it hopelessly tangled, and rather than wrap it up, it's dragging along, ready to snag the wreck and/or his gear.
I tangle my reel more often than not, always on the way back to the line...it seems like if I look away for a second or two that's all it takes for a loop to get caught on the outside of the reel, and after that you're done for.
I always wonder why they can't make a spring loaded reel that automatically retracts on the way back to the line.
By 4 minutes in, s/he's got it hopelessly tangled, and rather than wrap it up, it's dragging along, ready to snag the wreck and/or his gear.
I tangle my reel more often than not, always on the way back to the line...it seems like if I look away for a second or two that's all it takes for a loop to get caught on the outside of the reel, and after that you're done for.
I always wonder why they can't make a spring loaded reel that automatically retracts on the way back to the line.
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Nice. I'm going to swing by LI Scuba and check it out.
Seems like it's got everything missing from standard reels, including a "line out" indicator.
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