Advanced penetration of the Spiegel Grove Wreck

[Edward3c]

I’ve dived the SG. At he time I had around 1,300 dives. Would I consider going inside without at least a twinset and fully trained up buddies? No. A single 80 and a pony is nowhere near enough gas.

 

[norwhal]

so after reading the feed back where are you at with this plan ?

I probably wouldn't go back and retrieve the line, I'd cut it and leave it there.

I lost three friends on that wreck some years back. They were better trained and had more experience than you. They made a similar mistake with their line planning.

Where and how did they screw up?

Snoopy is on the main deck aft of crews' mess and directly in front of the barber shop / and ship's store.

The barber shop? Do they give a seniors discount?

 

[lostsheep]

I probably wouldn't go back and retrieve the line, I'd cut it and leave it there.

Are you trolling or can you not read?

DO NOT deliberately leave a line in there.

 

[norwhal]

Are you trolling or can you not read?

DO NOT deliberately leave a line in there.

I read just fine. Opinions are like A-holes everybody has one.

I would never care if someone installed a permanent line provided it was installed correctly.

 

[tridacna]

I probably wouldn't go back and retrieve the line, I'd cut it and leave it there.



Where and how?

Bodies of New Jersey Divers Are Retrieved From Wreck Near Florida Keys (Published 2007)

 

[norwhal]

Thanks for posting the link to the article.

They did a penetration without a reel.

 

[lostsheep]

I read just fine. Opinions are like A-holes everybody has one.

Your abandoned line could entangle a subsequent diver.

or is that just like my opinion? Who’s the ******* if that happens?

 

[lermontov]

I probably wouldn't go back and retrieve the line, I'd cut it and leave it there.

I would strongly advise not to take 2 others with you through a no light overhead penetration dive. You may feel confidant about it but im suspecting that others are not- dealing with a stressed diver in a silty corridor is getting to the upper end of serious .

 

[tursiops]

Quoting Jim Wyatt doesn't help your case. He is an accomplished cave diver and cave instructor; you have no tech credentials. What he means by a line that is "installed correctly" is rather different that what you might do during a swim-through.

The problem with your dive plan -- which I thought you'd already admitted -- was the installation of the line in the first place, for a one-way swim.
You seem to like well-used aphorisms, so: you can polish a turd as much as you want. but when you are done, all you have is a shiny turd.

 

[norwhal]

The problem with your dive plan -- which I thought you'd already admitted -- was the installation of the line in the first place, for a one-way swim.

Yes exactly. If I didn't mind returning through the same passageway there would be nothing to it.