Visual Jumps

Do you do visual jumps?

  • Often

    Votes: 4 5.3%
  • Sometimes

    Votes: 19 25.3%
  • Used to

    Votes: 2 2.7%
  • Never

    Votes: 50 66.7%

  • Total voters
    75

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Because they jam, and don't fit in pockets, more expensive, more parts to break, etc.

+1.



I've come to hate jump/gap reels and only use spools for those, even if it's a long jump and a PITA to wind back up. I carry one spool on hip d-ring, or on stage strap if carrying extra tanks. I've never had a spool come loose, but if I'm concerned about that on a particular dive there are ways to address that issue.
 
Bear Grylls would just drink his own pee. Problem solved.

:tongue2:

As you do not do visuals, how would you have approached that 5' jump?
 
Nope. No visual jumps, even in familiar territory. That's what spools are for.
 
+1.

I've come to hate jump/gap reels and only use spools for those, even if it's a long jump and a PITA to wind back up. I carry one spool on hip d-ring, or on stage strap if carrying extra tanks. I've never had a spool come loose, but if I'm concerned about that on a particular dive there are ways to address that issue.

You handle the problem as I would.
 
As I'm not familiar with the dive, is it roughly the same circuit as the godzilla circuit?

Assuming that it is, I'd pre-jump it and wait for buddy to be on mainline and reel my line in. I'm sure some where there's fault there, no doubt it'll be picked apart.
 
[video=youtube;H6V7wcXn2e8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6V7wcXn2e8[/video]

I think some of you may find this interesting.
 
That's not how I attach bolt snaps to my spool... I put line through one of the holes and then attach bolt snap to the loop that sticks through the hole.
 
That's not how I attach bolt snaps to my spool... I put line through one of the holes and then attach bolt snap to the loop that sticks through the hole.

Like this?

[video=youtube;nDMCeFyGKms]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMCeFyGKms[/video]
 
Yep like that. I've tried doing what is in those videos (on course it was discussed) and find it less likely to detach that way :idk: Haven't lost one yet.
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/swift/
http://cavediveflorida.com/Rum_House.htm

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