Dive Bouy's/Markers

[Derrick]

My AOW instructor made a dive buoy by using a car inner tube and tied a plastic milk crate to it. For our deep dive, he put a 80cf tank in the crate while we surface swam. Once we got to the deep part of the mine, he tied the tank to the line, lowered the it to 15' where we breathed off of it during our safety stop. It worked great and very inexpensive.<br><br>I have one of the yellow inflatable ones. They work great, but can be a pain to swim around with during windy days with surface chop. What I have been doing lately is leaving the dive flag either tied to something under water or anchored to the bottom with extra weights during the beginning part of the dive and retrieving it at the end of the dive. The nice thing about using weights is if you can't find the dive flag line while under water, you can just pull the weights up rather than having to swim back down to retrieve it.<br><br>Derrick<br><br>