Question Reef hook: bolt snap or carabiner?

[rsfinn57]

thank you

 

[dberry]

I usual don’t have time to recoil it. I just clip the BSS on the RH end back to my left chest D-ring and stuff the loose rope in between my belly and BCD belly strap to avoid entanglement. I recoil it back during the 3 minute safety stop.

There is a quicker way of recoiling the rope as shown by Alec Peirce in this video:

The process shown at ca. 4:40 in the video is exactly the way we were shown how to stow the reef hooks the boat gave us in the Maldives. It takes a few seconds of "weaving" to make a very compact unit, unwinds quickly when needed, and with a bit of practice can be done without looking after you unhook while enjoying the rest of the dive. The video shows them using a carabiner, but bolt snap on 3/16" or 1/4" nylon or poly rope was plenty strong enough and very easy to deploy. I think many of the coiled wire-rope and other suggestions are overly complicated solutions.