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Today, after our dive, the Boston Bomb Squad was kind enough to
lend us their bomb-disarming robot, "Leonard", to take the lids off of
our MLS lights. We lined all of the MLS's up on the dock, and took
cover behind the fire truck while "Leonard" went to work.
Since this is a routine thing at the dive boat dock after a wreck
dive, the Bomb Squad has programmed "Leonard" to use the special tool
provided by Dive Rite to remove the lid of the MLS. With the deluxe
package, Dive Rite provides a welders mask and gloves, and a set of
catcher's pads, usually suficient for a short dive.
Well, Leonard was doing fine on the first two, successfully
removing the lid without sparking it and was able to disarm them, but
the third one was his last: as the lid turned ( we were watching from
the monitor behind the fire truck), the light exploded "like a bomb"
and blew the head clean off of the hapless robot.
We ran around from behind the truck, and there was "Leonard", his
left "arm" holding the bottom of the canister, like a partial egg
shell, and his right arm holding the stubb of the tool. His head was
nowhere to be found, and all that was there was a smoking mess of
wires.
We spend several houirs combing Boston harbor for the head, but to
no avail. The Bomb Squad said they were "very upset" about the loss of
the head , and were considering taking action against the maker of the
MLS, for whom they named the robot.
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