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Sometimes ropes are used as guides to mark a route, for example in cave diving. There are occasionally stories of people inadvertently following them the wrong way.
What about a rope with a directional pattern of dots on it? One dot, gap, two dots, big gap, repeat. This wouldn't be expensive to implement
and would ensure that the rope told you which way to go.
Might be widely known to exist and I'm just not aware, but a quick search didn't turn anything up. Will delete if I'm just being dense!
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[xenzag, Nov 04 2025]
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I once proposed calibrating electrical cables (link)..... this would also work for divers/climbers who could easily determine if numbers were ascending or descending. (link) |
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Braille SCUBA. It should have been a Jacque Cousteau era thing.
<side story> I was diving in a foreign country and got to dive, (inside!) of shipwrecks just because the dude showing me the site saw how well I kept up with him. No ticket, no 'permission'... just keep up or don't. We were climbing into port holes and folding lines and tanks to slither through. It was So cool. The sea life inside those ships was different from the life forms on the surface of the ships and my sense of wonder was in overdrive.
I go there sometimes as my happy-place when I need to chill. |
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