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Jim H. You should have kept your head down on this one. Yes I did once hit a rock in a location that was within two miles of a lighthouse. It was north of Milwaukee in an area that I was unfamiliar with and the reef extends out quite a distance farther than it shows on the NOAA charts. I have since heard from several other skippers who regularly cruise this area that they, too, have hit the rocks there. All in all, I should have stayed further out. It definately was not one of my better days. No one, however, was injured and I continued to take my passengers on to make their dive and got them back safely. Yes again, Jim, I do circle around wrecks to make sure I keep a suitable distance from any divers may be in the water and to approach the mooring into the wind. That is the seamanlike thing to do. Your method, I have seen, is to come in at full throttle, running over divers in the water, and then try to bully another dive boat to give up their mooring to you when when there is an open mooring just 25 yards away. What is it? are you unable to swim the 25yds? What a sorry excuse for a human being. You congradulate yourself for doing what anyone would do - give first aid to an injured diver and get him to a hospital - and then you deliberately put divers at risk by operating your boat directly overhead. In a message dated 97-09-20 15:45:20 EDT, JimH720113@ao*.co* writes: << we have a "capndale" here on the great lakes,,,guy runs aground next to a lighthouse,,, duh.what am i missin here???? rides around in circles trying to wind the permanent lines on the wrecks into his prop....i guess that's how he ties on to the wrecks...me, i use a corner bit... bent divers,,,,i have had one...stayed on station till ALL,, my divers were up...this guy was a FULL ERUPTION..skin was bubblin while laying on floor of boat... did what i had to do...treated him...waited on ALL divers...called c.g. had him in milw. chamber 53 mins. after being pulled into the boat. btw...chamber dr. said"one of the best handled accidents i've seen in years" btw2 this guy is still divin >200' no effects. >> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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