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Gee thanks, Akimbo. Now I'm going to have to buy my wife that sewing machine. In all seriousness, this is a great tip. Thanks for sharing it.
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Now I'm going to have to buy my wife that sewing machine.
Reels aren’t made to roll of that fast.
I do something similar, but use paracord rather than webbing. Cheaper, and easier to attach to the bag and to the boltsnap.No. All reels are a PITA to spool up neatly to limit the risk of binding when deployed. That's why I leave my reels on deck for most dives that don't require stops deeper than 20'/6M. I just swim up to my first stop, unwind the 1" webbing wrapped around the bag with a swirling action at the wrist, let the webbing hang below, inflate the bag, and let the webbing slide through my loose graps on the the webbing.
No. All reels are a PITA to spool up neatly to limit the risk of binding when deployed. That's why I leave my reels on deck for most dives that don't require stops deeper than 20'/6M. I just swim up to my first stop, unwind the 1" webbing wrapped around the bag with a swirling action at the wrist, let the webbing hang below, inflate the bag, and let the webbing slide through my loose graps on the the webbing.
Why did he get banned?I used to do something similar but used cave line rather than webbing. Now-banned user DumpsterDiver turned me on to it. I quit doing it because there are a couple of drawbacks.
The main one is that you need a place for the webbing/line to go. If you're in a situation where you are in, say, 28' of water, but you need/want to send up the bag (because of boat traffic or whatever), well, you've got the line going everywhere because the snap at the end hit bottom and isn't pulling the line down. You have to do something with it because you can't unwrap the bag to inflate it without taking the line/webbing off it first.
With the line I had problems with it pulling off of the bag at some random point during the dive, so I'd look back and there'd be a bunch of line following me around that I then had to untangle and re-wrap. Maybe that's less of a problem with the webbing, maybe I just had poor technique. I tried rubber bands and things to try to keep it all together and never figured it out.
Why did he get banned?