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>    Are there any more smart solutions to firmly attach your tools to your
>     body ?
>     Looking forward to the next response.

Yes, use a canvas or ballistic nylon tool bag. Put your tools and lift 
bags in it and connect it to you with a quick release nylon snap. Should 
you get caught in a bind, no problem, drop the bag. This way you don't 
have countless shit hanging all off of you which will eventually get 
caught on something and trap you like a rat. Don't use the bag as your 
buoyancy weight, send the tool bag up with your prize piece of wreck junk.

And as far as pillaging is concerned, if there is no law against it, 
don't worry about it. All this hang-wringing about preserving a wreck is 
a bunch of BS and has nothing to do with anything in the real world. The 
exception to this might be fresh-water wrecks which don't rot away. In 
saltwater, however, it is basically a race between you and mother nature. 
This is why they finally opened up the monitor wreck. It was becoming 
obvious that the wreck was rapidly turning into a pile of rust and rotted 
wood and pretty soon NOAA would be standing guard over a rust-stained 
patch of sand. Then they tried to remove the wheel and fucked that 
project all up. Should have sent some wreckers down there to do the job 
right, they would have sent the wheel up, driveshaft and everything.

Personally I don't see the history of the world pivoting on a bent piece 
of brass. The only value this stuff has to anyone is to the diver who 
brought it up. I have, hanging from my fence in the backyard, a 15' 
section of copper steam pipe I pulled up from the Eureka. I suppose I 
could take it to the junk yard and make $50 for the scrap value, but no. 
My wife sure does not understand it, but I do. I *like* my 15' piece of 
bent, stained, coral encrusted pipe.

As far as stealing information from archeologists 500 years in the 
future, well fuck them. Why should we make their job any easier? Make 
those goverment-cheese eating leaches EARN their damn paychecks.


   Jim
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