DIVER RECOVERY IS a meticulously investigated subject but Andy Ash-Vie of Harken admitted it's called for improvisation along the way. "A chap phoned me up last year wanting to buy one of our winches. When I asked what he wanted it for: he said - pulling divers up into a diving bell. The next question was the obvious one- Do you have room to swing the handle fully?" On reflection the answer was, it seems, 'No' - although a partial movement was just about achievable. Mr Ash-Vie suspected a winch was less than ideal, but there was obviously a pressing need and evidently more to this request than first met the eye.
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