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I went home and scanned the "documentary" video I mentioned in my last =
post to verify some information since I haven't seen it in a while. =
First the name of the film is "The Cave Divers" and not "Cave Fossils", =
although it is about fossils found in the "butchery cave."  Second and =
most important, one of the sponsers was Rolex of Canada, not Rolex of =
USA. I assume they are not one of the same??  Stoneman is apparently =
Canadian.

Cliff Sumbler wrote:
>His film style hasn't changed.  I'm referring to John Stoneman's =
"Arabia"
> of the same series.  The pretence of the "documentary" is to allegedly
>locate the wheel house of this Very Popular wreck in Fathom Five
>Underwater Park off Tobermory Ontario Canada.  A wood barque, sitting
> upright on flat bottom 120'. In reality the wheel house was =
accidentaly pulled
>off the wreck by a careless anchorage of a dive boat in the late '70's =
and
> lies some 50' North East of the wreck, at the limits of vis on a good =
day.
>As the story goes he chartered a local dive boat from his old friend =
..., for
>a week to search for the wheel house. (some friend, wouldn't tell him =
where
>the wheel house was). Anyway after searching for a week, doing 3+ dives =
per
>day, in the cold deep waters they discover the wheel house. But now for =
the
>"excitment added obligation" the team that discovers the wheel house =
gets
>blown off the wreck and must make an ascent from 100 ft without an =
anchor line,
>but just as they leave the bottom with only seconds of air remaining, =
they
> discover an unknown wreck, and only have time for about 15 seconds of =
film
>of this new wreck. =20

>The wreck is obviously the James C. King, a schooner that ran aground =
on an
>island about 4 miles South West of the Arabia. And is laying on a rock =
slope
>leading easily up to the suface and dry land. But due to various time =
constrants
>the team can't return to investiage this "new" wreck.(with his expense =
account??)
>Again back to reality, the week and all those diver were used to clean =
all the silt
>off the wreck prior to the on dive of filming.

Is this the one where Stoneman pops the faceplate out of his mask during =
his "decompression" and goes on to narrate how this is a severely =
life-threatening ordeal? We were all on the edge of our seats!!!=20

Doug Chapman

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