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George, those weren't bondage wings that's for sure! heheheh- Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/ > From: trey@ne*.co* (Trey) > Reply-To: trey@ne*.co* > Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:01:30 -0500 > To: Cobber <cobber@ci*.co*> > Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: North Meets South > > Jim , thanks for what you said and what you did not say. Now we will > come up there and have some fun with you guys. You can just answer one > question for me , Jim, do I "do it right" or what. Just a "yes" or a > "no" will do. > > By the way, all of you who have been sending the "fuck yous" and such to > Cobb, he is a very big boy. He is Mr Cobb from now on. You can take your > chances with me, but I would skip getting in Cobb's face. He looks like > Dick Butkus. > > > Cobber wrote: >> >> A bunch of us Virginia Beach tech divers headed south on a trip >> master-minded by Capt. JT Barker. JT got the boats and hotel rooms all >> lined up and Rick Atkins provided the logistical support with his "diveshop >> on wheels" providing 02 and He fills to both us and FL divers. >> Me, JT, Rick, Ike, Dave, Bill and Brad did a overnight non-stop road trip to >> Boynton Beach and departed on the Deeper with our doubles, stages and 7 >> scooters. Capt. Leo Sands was at the helm with the Little Deeper following >> in support. We did a dive on the Sky Cliff and we all got introduced to Fl >> style diving. Allen Pelstring was there to go diving with us, thanks Alan >> for your support and I enjoyed talking with you, see you when you come up. >> >> This involves being dropped upstream from the wreck and then head to the >> bottom with your scooter wide open and your ass is on fire and hope the >> current did not whip you past the wreck. Ike and I were a bit too >> enthusiastic on our decent and wound up on the sand at 200', but we headed >> downstream and the Sky Cliff loomed out at us. FL wrecks are pretty sterile >> as most are artificial reefs but at least they are more or less in one piece >> and are fun to explore. >> >> After we were done we unhooked an upline and did a drifting deco. As we did >> not pull the anchor off the bottom we wound up deploying the jon lines >> anyway. I was done with my deco first and it was weird feeling to come to >> the surface and see no boat in sight. Soon the Little Deeper found us and we >> got out. >> >> The next dive was a wild drift dive along the "Hole in the wall". The >> current was doing maybe 2 knots or so and we whistled along at 140' next to >> this ridge. There were dozens of lobsters in every nook and cranney, morays, >> sharks and other cool stuff. Dan Volker was with us and let me tell you guys >> he really can out-swim a scooter. He's also a really nice guy and we enjoyed >> diving with him. >> >> For this dive one person shot his bag and the rest of us attempted to keep >> our buoyancy during our deco, floating with the one person. Well it did not >> take more than this dive for us to realize that this pretty much sucks. So >> on the Budvar and subsequent dives we used our own bags. >> Next we tried Jim Abernathy's boats and did the "Lucerne" (I think) a very >> large bulk freighter again at 200'. This time we were with The Man himself, >> George, and got to dive with him and Dan on this big wreck. I will attest >> that George dives his cave rig on the wrecks just like he says. Heck we were >> all in drysuits using steel tanks and aluminum stages. >> >> It was good to meet George in person for the first time, he really does not >> have horns on his head, a forked tail or hobnailed boots. George is a nice >> guy and we all went out to a pub to have some chow after the dive. >> >> So it is possible to tech dive properly in South Florida. The Dive Shop II >> gassed us up and did not hassle us at all for topping our mixes. They really >> provided great service and I recommend them and Capt. Sands if you want to >> do some serious diving in Boynton Beach. >> >> Thanks again to all the hard work and planning of JT and Rick, thanks to the >> hospitality of Alan, Dan & George and the rest of the FL gang. We look >> forward to diving with the FL gang up in the Great White North East, where >> the water is murky and the pizza is hot. >> >> Jim >> >> -- >> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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