Custom Divers offer an ideal stocking filler with the launch their latest baby – The Pocket Reel

“Our Ratchet Reel has proved to be very popular over the years”, stated Alex Vassallo, Custom Divers CEO. “Now we are proud to announce we’ve augmented our Reel Collection with the launch of a new Pocket Reel. Like it’s cousins, this reel benefits from being designed to offer the diver both ratchet and free run functions. This reel came about because divers demanded it. One of the nice things about the Dive Shows is that many divers come and talk to us about our products and tell us what they need. It does help to keep us on our toes! Although there are other small reels on the market, one thing that we were regularly asked for was a petite reel. Divers told us they needed a 50 metre line reel that could be used when cold water diving that encompassed many tasks. For example, as a jump reel, when deploying a D-SMB or simply stashing as a backup.

As the name suggests this is quite a dinky reel, thus allowing diver to not only hold the reel in one hand, but also lets them select the Free Running Mode, simply by depressing the spring actioned pawl with their finger. One the main reasons the Ratchet has been so popular with divers is that they can adjust the spool run to their need or taste, whilst still enjoying snag free line deployment. It was only natural therefore that the Pocket Reel should benefits from these features. When it comes to line, as with all our reels, the Pocket comes with a 98kg breaking strain 2mm line in a choice of white, neon yellow or pink line.

The Pocket Reel is an ideal ‘divers first reel’. We all know that a decent reel is a key component of elementary diving equipment. Hence when we designed the Pocket Reel we bore this in mind, for we made it a Marmite Reel. As the divers experience grows, the reels flexibility and capability continues to support their diving needs, so they never grow out of it”.