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Yes diving up north is never as easy as it is talking about it on the net. > 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. There are no skulls left, I got the last one 2 months ago, it had a hatchet stuck in it. <G> Lucky Pina found that one , I knew she puked up everything she ate in the last month, but I didn't think she lost her head too. > 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, Yeah, I saw that,I still break out laughing when I think about it. ;-) >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. That's how I nav. it , its pretty easy when you know those 4 points. > 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. Don't like deep air, was it really only 12ft vis? > 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. They were coming to have JJ show them, that private email you sent turn them away. One of those guys you cc have never even heard of you and did not know what you were talking about and doesn't want to come now. You happy now? > 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. I'd rather see you do it with one bullet, for up to 6 tries, that way I can watch you sweat more. :-) >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. "You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to get in the water" Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more Web Site http://www.capt-jt.com/ Email captjt@mi*.co* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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