Deco Line Usage and Recreational Diving

Decompression lines and Jon Lines have always been used exclusively in decompression, technical diving.  They are a staple of the diver's equipment and make decompression a lot easier when in a crowd or a current.    Life is so much simpler when relaxing on the end of a Deco-Line, rather than fighting to hang on, fighting the current and banging into other divers.

Decompression lines are not limited to technical diving though.  Any diver who has ever tried to hang on to the metal bars that hang under the tourist dive boats knows how frustrating it can be to bump into everyone, get jerked up and down in the waves and be trampled by other divers.  By hooking a Deco-Line on the chain, the diver can back off and watch the show.  Even in a current, the diver stays near the boat and has no worries of losing the Divemaster or tour guide.

Safety stops can also be painful in some areas.  In many parts of the world, fire coral has a tendency to grow on the buoy lines of wrecks and dive sites.  Hanging on these lines burns the hands and knocks off pieces of the fire coral that then drift back into the diver's face and neck.  

Deco-Lines also become a life line in zero visibility conditions.  If lakes and quaries, the wrong move by a diver can send billowing clouds of silt into the current and quickly black out visibility.  Divers who need to ascend or perform a safety stop in these conditions can link themselves together with the Deco-Line to keep from becoming separated.  So next time you head out on that recreational drift or group dive, remember your Deco-Line.  You'll be glad that you did!