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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