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This is a great starter kit for your cavern or intro to cave course.
Dry Cavers were using directional markers long before there were any cave divers. The early cave divers in Florida saw the benefit of these markers, and Lewis Holzendorf came up with the idea of folding a triangle of tape around the line to form an arrow. These tape arrows were called Dorf markers, in Lewis' honor.
There were a couple of problems with tape arrows, however: they slid along the line and were difficult to feel during a silt-out. Cave Diving Pioneer Sheck Exley asked fellow diver Forrest Wilson to lead a discussion group at an NSS workshop to come up with an idea for a better arrow. Several ideas were tossed around. Eventually, Forrest came up with the current design and hand-made several hundred. Forrest's arrows were sold through the Branford Dive Center in North Florida. They soon became very popular, and Steve Hudson of PMI Cave Rope Company asked Forrest's permission to mass-produce arrows for Dive Rite.
Today, cave and wreck penetration divers from all around the world use line arrows to mark the direction of the closest exit. Markers attach easily to the line and are made of corrosion-proof, pliable plastic material.
It includes three Dive Rite line arrows, three line cookies, and three REMs with surgical tubing to hold the line markers and a bolt snap to store the Dive Rite line marker kit easily.
Dive Rite Line Marker Kits are available in White, Yellow, and Orange.
| Product Category | Accessories |
| SKU | DIR-AC2016-XX |
| Condition | New |
| Brand | Dive Rite |