Because rescue vessels nearly always tow boats in distress with wire hawsers, you should give some thought ahead of time to the kind of knots suitable for attaching your own towline to the steel hawser.
Ngokuba isikhitshana esihlangulaye soloko sitsala izikhitshana ezisengxakini ngentambe yocingo, kufuneka ucinye kwangethuba uhlobo lweqhina elitungele ukubephelela intambe yokutsala kwimibhobhe yestili.