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Tech/Engineering - Sports / Fitness / Recreation / scuba diving | | French term or phrase: Bout d’amarrage | From a holiday brochure offering diving holidays
It is an item in a list of "types of dive" (one of the other types that I have been able to identify for example is "drift dive") No other context I am afraid.
Anyone got the exact phrase please?
Ta! |
| | | Anchor line (diving) | Explanation:
(By way of introduction I'm a qualified diver. All my training was done in French, but all my diving post-qualifications has been done in places where the lingua franca is English).
For me this is not so much a type of diving as a way of getting in and out of the water ie you would get in the water from the dive boat and descend using the anchor line. You would use the anchor line for safety stops and re-ascending. This is as opposed to a shore dive, or a drift dive where the boat will pick you up at a different place from where you started. So I suppose it's just being listed as a type of diving to differentiate as opposed to drift or shore-entry diving.
"I had done enough anchor line diving to last me a while, and by that I mean conditions that require following down the anchor line so that you don't end up somewhere in No Man’s Land."
www.scubadiverinfo.com/mt/starting/archives/.../las_islas_c...
"It was a very conservative anchor line dive, and I was thankful that we made it."
http://diver.net/elaine/uploads//html/images/061606/061606.h...
For info when talking about 'bout' in a nautical context the T at the end is always pronounced ! |
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2 hrs confidence:   Anchor line (diving)
Explanation:
(By way of introduction I'm a qualified diver. All my training was done in French, but all my diving post-qualifications has been done in places where the lingua franca is English).
For me this is not so much a type of diving as a way of getting in and out of the water ie you would get in the water from the dive boat and descend using the anchor line. You would use the anchor line for safety stops and re-ascending. This is as opposed to a shore dive, or a drift dive where the boat will pick you up at a different place from where you started. So I suppose it's just being listed as a type of diving to differentiate as opposed to drift or shore-entry diving.
"I had done enough anchor line diving to last me a while, and by that I mean conditions that require following down the anchor line so that you don't end up somewhere in No Man’s Land."
www.scubadiverinfo.com/mt/starting/archives/.../las_islas_c...
"It was a very conservative anchor line dive, and I was thankful that we made it."
http://diver.net/elaine/uploads//html/images/061606/061606.h...
For info when talking about 'bout' in a nautical context the T at the end is always pronounced !
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