I find it kind of hard to believe that there is all this incredulity around Dan's statements about hot drops. There are, quite simply, parts of the world where it is really not best practice to hook into the wreck (at least, all the time). A captain that knows what he/she is doing can do a pretty good job of dropping a team on a wreck the vast majority of the time. Pulling down a line 150 feet, 200 feet, or more, with a raging current that would rip one's mask off, does not make sense. Forget someone's bubbles not making it up three feet - they aren't making it up three inches before they are history.
To another point - yes if you want to hit the wreck FOR SURE - it's nice to have a downline. But if the current is as strong as it often gets in WPB and other places, especially if the wreck is deep - it may well not be worth it. Someone talking about using finger muscles has absolutely no idea of the amount of effort it takes to get down a line in strong current. Period.
All just MHO of course. And I can't believe there are over 400 posts and I just added one LOL.
