something like vectran would do the trick. you get it in chandleries but it is a bit expensive.
it has a stretch of something like 1% under 1/3 of it's breaking load - which for 24mm line is 14,000kg - so you'd have to load it over 4.5 tonnes of bottom weight for it to stretch appreciably. Which is one hell of a FIM line. As far as i know vectran doesn't 'creep' like most polymer materials under continuous load either. I'd guess someone on the dbforum could help out here?
As for drift... well, it can't be rocket science to use a sonar/emitter on the bottom plate and just see what angle the bottom plate is from the platform directly above, then it's gcse maths.
dunno, seems cooler than banning people from diving a metre deeper. besides, someday we'll all be old and wrinkly and we'll weep at the though of how much time we wasted with measuring tapes.
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it has a stretch of something like 1% under 1/3 of it's breaking load - which for 24mm line is 14,000kg - so you'd have to load it over 4.5 tonnes of bottom weight for it to stretch appreciably. Which is one hell of a FIM line. As far as i know vectran doesn't 'creep' like most polymer materials under continuous load either. I'd guess someone on the dbforum could help out here?
As for drift... well, it can't be rocket science to use a sonar/emitter on the bottom plate and just see what angle the bottom plate is from the platform directly above, then it's gcse maths.
dunno, seems cooler than banning people from diving a metre deeper. besides, someday we'll all be old and wrinkly and we'll weep at the though of how much time we wasted with measuring tapes.
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