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I don't know Andy Driver or Bob Raimo, and to this point in time I haven't
learned the names of anyone else involved (captain, mates, students, other
divers) in Andy's supposedly taking students to the Choapa (aka Junior).  I
do know enough about the Choapa and those who dive her successfully to say
without hesitation that the Choapa is one of the very scariest, baddest
wrecks in this region.  Wrapped in monofilament from party boats, draped in
lost netting from commercial draggers, lying in the silt in the Mud Hole,
washed by the dark waters emptying out of the Hudson, and lying in the
shipping lanes leading into and out of New York Harbor, the best divers in
this region sometimes dive the Choapa as a final, inexpensive (roughly
within 15 miles of Manasquan Inlet), scare-the-shit-out-of-yourself tune-up
before an expensive trip to the Doria.  The Choapa is a bad ass, three
knife, disorienting wreck.  I'd have to agree that it most certainly is not
the place to take a student whose skills one is trying to assess.  On the
other hand, it does make for one hell of a great tale to add to the many
Choapa stories I've already heard.      

Bill Schmoldt

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