HAHAHAHA, George, yer killing me! What I want to know is how much did the 
fishing boat charge you for Mr. Tuna Door? Did they charge by the pound? 
Did they pick up Tom too, but throw him back because he was too gamey? 
When you haul a hangbar full, do you net 'em or gaff 'em?

 Jim

On 7/20/98 6:30 PM Katherine V. Irvine wrote:

>Jim, you don't see me arguing with Mount on that one. I have not had to
>"rescue" a diver since I learned Rule Number One. 
>
>Actually, we did have to "rescue" Mount himself one day when he brought
>every stroke in town out for a dive with us. This was a cluster of epic
>proportions where the line got diconenected from the wreck and the
>divers went everywhere in a swirling current. Tom and Bill Mee were
>drifting away from the boat, and we were missing one diver, an enourmous
>fat slob. I was out of the water and back on the boat with the crew, and
>saw Mount in the distance. Knowing we were short one fat slob, and
>seeing Tom waving his freediving fins at me, I instructed the divemaster
>to go overboard and cancel the deco weenies' hang. They refused to come
>up, so I turned their gas off ( it was surface supplied ). They went to
>back gas and hung on the bar. I yanked the bar up and four more fat
>slobs and a selection of horrifying strokes broke the surface with their
>little weenie dive computers screaming and beeping. Aftet cussing these
>idiots out, we got Mount and Bill Mee, and they were ok, but the fishing
>fleet was trolling all over them. One of the boats had actually landed
>the missing slob, but the captain told me he had to slide him in the
>tuna door like a beached whale . That was when Mount made these strokes
>start using tables.
>
>
> 
>Jim Cobb wrote:
>> 
>> Tom, not IANTD trained, I trust?
>> 
>>  Jim
>> 
>> Sender: Tom Mount  Date: 7/18/98 5:07 PM
>> 
>> >George I have rescued more divers in my career than you ever will.
>> 
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