Rules of Tow Boards and scuba in minnesota

[DetectorGuy]

We have used tow sleds a few times and they are a ton of fun. We did not use a dive flag and one time we had problems keeping people from cutting right behind us. It was in the fall and there was not much boat traffic. We were using a bright red inflatable pulling the diver at 2.5 MPH. I really could not blame the other boater as we were not flying the flag. We ended up stopping for the day. Another time Art was towing me with his boat and Shooter jumped off the tow boat and waited at depth for me to come "flying by him". He got it on video. I was fairly surprised to see him just waiting there. We used GPS on the tow boat to monitor search pattern and speed (2.5 MPH seems optimum). We attached a wrist mount Tusa computer to the sled to make it easier to watch depth changes. (changes in depth seem to happen in a heartbeat if you are not paying attention).