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JT, we dove when it was our turn. We dive as teams
as a matter of practice, unlike the New England tough
guys. Pina and I swam together , JJ followed us with
Kane's scooter. Pina found a skull, which we left
alone - we do not strip the wreck , we leave stuff for
others to see.
I use a compass ( I am fairly sure the NE wreck
divers could be taught to use these with a few years
of schooling ), and it has N,S,E, and even West on it,
and a little needle which tends to point to the North,
and having not only been on boats for my entire life
my father was one of the guys who started Hatteras
Yacht Company which I used to deliver boats for as a
teenager up and down the east coast ), and having
worked in boat factories building boats, run and
raced all kind of boats all over, been in the Navy
during the Viet Nam War, and living boats as my family
still owns yards all over this country,I have
discovered that boats and ships have a Bow , a Stern,
a Port side and a Starboard side, and that includes
the skeleton of ships sunk during WWII like the
Mexicana that you took us on.
When I can't find an anchor line, can't find my
entry point, can't get back to the surface to find the
dive boat, can't find my way around a boat or a ship,
I'll suck your dick. The problem is that water up
there is filthy, and what you guys call 40 feet of vis
is more like 12 feet, so the inability to navigate is
a gig problem for the NE crowd. I am used to no clue
navigation in caves and have yet to get lost. Ships
are easy, but nothing is easy if you do it the NE way.
That still is not a problem, as the bow stern etc.
don't change unless one is diving air.
I can not believe that the NE crowd, like
Christina, not only do not get the bottle marking
thing, they do not use compasses, none of them know
what the word "buddy" means, and the NE crowd comes
rigged for a clusterfuck , which is what they are used
to dealing with in NE.
JJ, Pina and I dive together for a reason - it
is called Rule Number One. I'll will admit that when
I am 60 miles off shore , I will do it my way or not
at all, and at 48 I have come back from everything and
things that you do not want to know about in your
worst nightmares. When I start listening to NE wreck
divers, other than for amusement like a Jerky Boys
tape, hand me the gun with all six chambers full - a
better bet.
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