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"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...
"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...
They were looking for hammerheads off Gordon and the current took them.
Picked them up after they'd been drifting on the surface for an hour and a half just as they were entering the shipping lanes.
Think SMBs are mandatory now.
That happened to me in 2003 out at The Brothers. I had a 2m SMB, buddy had and air-horn but the boat was looking in the wrong direction. Got spotted by a French dive boat in the end just as we were heading off to Saudi somewhere.
Mind you, not as bad as the couple iof hours left on the surface in an effing storm in Cuba. Crew went indoors for a wee drinky and when they came out the rain was too bad to see anything. One of those "I am going to die moments" that are not anywhere near as character-building as they say
Is it a good workout going on a holiday like that?
I hope not!
Apart from lugging 25kg of diving gear around the deck and up ladders I expect to be diving, eating and sleeping for 6 days.
With the odd beer thrown in, obv...
"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...
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