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On the pickup day, which by the way on Mims boat we have picked George up from his lift bag as well on a few occasions in days gone by, due to accent lines breaking free or divers thinking everyone else was up freeing the line etc. Procedurally today on most of the tech boats this is not likely to happen anymore. It can happen on some of the recreational boats that occasionally do tech charters but are not up on some of the evolved procedures.. Anyway The dive group had all ascended and Bill and I pulled the anchor unknown to us there was a squall topside so the moment we pulled the anchor we got pulled from 230 to 140 feet instantly thus decide to let go of the line , fired our lift bag and did our deco, Upon surfacing we spotted the boat NW of us and waved the fins so they would see us as the fin extended higher than the lift bag. . The current was drifting NE so Bill and I swam a easy pace to keep ourselves due south of the boat. About 45 minutes later we were picked up. Bill and I were curious about why the Captain did not just let the anchor drift on a float ball while the other divers were decoing and come pick us up. It is standard operating procedure in pompano to have the boat free for situations like this while divers may deco on the drifting ascent line, but not in Miami at that time. The other missing diver just drifted with the current and was picked up well east of the area Bill and I had remained in. in fact the pickup point was in 600 feet of water. Yes he was exhausted as he was not in the physical condition bill and I were, even though he was a power lifter. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*> To: kirvine@sa*.ne* <kirvine@sa*.ne*> Cc: Tom Mount <TOM.MOUNT@wo*.at*.ne*>; cavers <cavers@ca*.co*>; techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Date: Monday, July 20, 1998 8:58 PM Subject: Re: Fw: cylinders-BC's etc >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. >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Learn About Trimix At http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html > > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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