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In the daily activities of sailors, steeplejacks, builders, firefighters, mine rescuers and rock climbers, it is often necessary to use the so-called pendant with musings. In the Navy, a pendant is a vertically hanging plant cable, fixed to something by the upper part, and musings are thickenings on it, woven into it in the form of knots, at regular intervals. With the help of such cables, the sailors sit in the boats standing at the side of the ship. But the made pendant with musings is not always at hand when you urgently need to go down the cable overboard or climb a sheer wall if there is neither a ladder nor a ladder.

Imagine, for example, such a situation. A man fell into the water from the deck of a ship in the port. On the deck there is a free coil of plant cable. If you drop a line to a fallen one, it is unlikely that he will be able to climb aboard: the cable may be synthetic, and in the port there is usually a layer of oil on the surface of the water. The hands of a person who has fallen overboard will slide along a cable that does not have musings. In such a situation, it helps "fire escape".

Simple node is an integral element of many useful knots. The "fire escape" consists of a series of simple knots that are knitted one after the other very quickly (20 knots can be tied in half a minute). It is magnificent in its simplicity and effectiveness, but it requires skill and clarity in execution.

The knitting of this knot begins with the formation of a certain number of pebbles wound one after another. Take the running end of the cable in your left hand, stepping back from its edge 15-20 centimeters. Make the first stick with a diameter of no more than 10 centimeters so that the root end of the cable is at the bottom. Then make exactly the same pebble and press the thumb of your left hand to the tips of the others. In the same way, make 5-7 pebbles, evenly stacked one on top of the other. So that they do not move out and are not tangled, put them on the fingers (except the thumb) of the left hand extended upwards. You will get a kind of rope "glass". Carefully remove it from your fingers so that it does not crumble or flatten. Now the running end that you held in your left hand, pass inside this "cup" and bring it out on the other side. Place the "glass" on your left palm and clasp it on all sides with five fingers. With the bent fingertips of the right hand, hold the upper hose of the "cup" and slowly, without jerking, pull the running end of the cable sticking out of the "cup" up. As this running end is pulled out, simple knots will be tied on it. Their number will correspond to the number of pebbles made, and the distance between them will correspond to the length of their circumference.

In the described way, the knots can be quickly tied, fasten one end of the rope to the battery, to the leg of the bed (table), throw the other end out the window and, if necessary, go down the rope (for example, in case of fire).

Such a situation is also possible. You need to pull out a car stuck in the mud. There is a long rope and people ready to help. To make it more convenient for them to pull, tie a "fire escape" on the ground so that the knots go through about every meter.

Author: Skryagin L.N.

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