My primary SMB (Orange) has the spool attached always and is in my left pocket and only has about 100' of line on it.
Right now my Yellow SMB in my right pocket has no spool but I carry an extra spool in my right pocket with 150' of line.
The reason I do that comes from my cave training really. In cave you always have 2 backup reels/spools of at least 150' for emergency's.
That carries over a bit for me into open water where I like to have the safety reels as well.
The primary SMB I consider self contained so that's why spool/smb are attached.
The other spool then doubles as a safety spool or a spool to use on orange SMB. I don't want to be carrying more spools/reels then I have to.
Not that it applies here but when I cave dive the SMB's stay home. They are of no use in the cave
Finally Jay is correct the Yellow SMB is not standard in North America. It was mid 2008 that I read about it and it made a lot of sense to me. If you plan to go that route though it is important to breif the captian and let other divers know. Since it's non-standard here at this point most people would not give a Yellow SMB another thought. To further that there are a lot of people that use a Yellow DiveRite 50lbs life bag as their standard and only SMB (I use to be one of them and will sell it to you cheap :P).
Serge.
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Originally Posted by Rob Smith
Thanks, something I would not have thought about. Ok I plan to carry a primary reel (rear D-ring) so should each SMB have a dedicated reel of it's own or just a primary and then a finger reel?
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