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Subject: Re: Bent at Whitefish
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 97 22:10:45 -0400
From: Jim Cobb <cobber@mi*.co*>
To: <CaptnDale@ao*.co*>, "George Irvine" <gmirvine@sa*.ne*>
cc: "Tech Diver" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Man, if this post doesn't say it all. You are all a bunch of loonies up 
there.

   Jim

On 9/19/97 2:08 PM CaptnDale@ao*.co* wrote:

>3.  You got part of it right about the flare.  Two years ago I was tied up to
>a bleach-bottle mooring (one of three) on a wreck in 130 feet of water.  The
>other two moorings were empty and I had divers down.  I was displaying day
>shapes, an alpha flag, a diver down flag and trailing a line with a float
>with another diver down flag.  Another boat came up on me at full speed and
>hailed me to "get off of my [the other boat's] mooring!"  This other boat
>then proceeded to maneuver right over the wreck, with the bubbles of my
>divers comming up around his hull.  I told him I had divers down and tried to
>tell him to give my dvers clearance since I could not just pull out and leave
>them.  He continued to rant and raveand to hold his position above the
>divers.  I fired a flare, not at him, but over and to one side.  If I had
>fired at him I certainly would not have missed.  He was only 25 feet away.
> Now tell me - what would you have done?




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