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One of my original dive buddies, Bernie, is back from Canada after five
years away. He came over today , with my other original dive instructor, who
now
is using his MBA instead of teaching diving. I can not wait to get Bernie
diving
with us again - he is awesome.
Anyway, I was on a dive with these two guys where the shit hit the fan ,
and
Bernie just now told Vaughn and me the real story. We were diving the Lowrance
in Ft Lauderdale, and there was this huge fat slob on the boat that claimed he
had been trained by Hal Watts at Goober Sink, and the captain asked us to dive
with him. I said it is not my ocean, he can dive, but not with me. He jumped in
with us anyway.
As soon as we got to the wreck, this guy sticks his pressure guage in my
face - I pointed to the surface and kept on swimming ( I did not really look at
it, didn't care). We swam on down the wreck through a corridor and into a cargo
hold, and then up some stairs, and Bernie was suddenly gone, and so was the big
guy. We went looking, and then went back to where we had hooked in. We waited
until we had only enough gas to deco, and went up, leaving the line hooked, and
had to hold on in the current for forty-five minutes. Bernie never showed up,
and I was really worried,but Vaughn said he was likely "ok".
We surfaced to see Bernie and the slob on the boat. Bernie said the guy ran
out of gas so he took him up. I was pissed at the slob and told him so ,
suggesting that Bernie should have left him.
Well, Bernie now agrees with me on this, and told me the real story. The
guy swam up to him in a panic, grabbed the reg out of his mouth (Bernie breaths
the long hose even then). The slob was huffing and puffing, and had Bernie in a
death grip. Bernie pulled his slate, and wrote that they had plenty of gas, not
to worry. The guy was nuts , however, and Bernie had to pull his KNIFE on the
guy, and hold him off of him with the point stuck in him. He inflated up, and
then the slob wanted to do some huge deco. Bernie said that every time an
amberjack swam by, the slob started panting again. Finally, the slob ran Bernie
out of gas.
Guess who this was? The same guy who nearly killed Joe Citelli at Little
River. This is another fine example of "technical" dive training in action -
big
tekkie , did not know the basics of diving, and still does not.
George M. Irvine III
DIR WKPP
1400 SE 11 ST Ft Lauderdale, FL 33316
954-493-6655 FAX 6698
Email gmiiii@in*.co*
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