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Hi Frank,
The diagram is from Phil's paper.
I had to print it & scan it so it's not too clear.
If you follow the light line down you see it attached to the skinny
drum section of the reel. Running through the centre of the drum
is a strong rope wich also runs through a lifting hook on the sub wich
is obscure in the diagram. The load line clamp latches around the drum
reel. It doesn't matter whether the drum of the reel breaks or not.
The reel doesn't float it just remains attached on the short rope / cable
wich is running through the subs lifting eye & reel drum.
The thinking behind using floating line for the emergency release
buoy
is that if you have 300 ft of line & you are stuck at 150 ft the extra
150 ft
would play out & with wind directions & current directions the
line could end up
going all over the place in time.
I believe someone had to pay for the full paper originally so I don't know
about
getting all of the paper up on the Psub site.
Alan
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