Damn! He is stabbing the diver!

[oneighty]

It is wintertime in 1958. We are recovering practice mines from the ocean's bottom. The water and air are very cold.

The Navy EOD divers are poorly equipped. Wet suits had not yet become available. Our rubber drysuits were old and rotten they tore easily and leaked water in making the suit useless.. Many of us wear wollen long johns normally used in hard hat diving. The long johns helped, but not much.

Our diving platform is a nine man rubber raft which we paddle from our ship to the bouy marking the location where the mine might be as determined by the minesweepers side scan sonar.

We are required by Navy regulations to wear a carbon dioxide inflateable life jacket. Should we drown and are not wearing the life jacket we will be severly reprimanded.

From the minesweeper we see the diver come up from the bottom he is struggling and in trouble. We watch in horror as the diver tender in the rubber raft with his diving knife starts stabbing our fellow diver. He stabs repeatedly driving the knife down into the hapless diver.

It turns out the diver's Carbon Dioxide inflatable jife jacket accidently inflated and is choking him to death. The tender is deflating the life jacke with his knife!

Hee Hee!

[brainshrub]

1. Do you have a link to the rest of the story?

I'm hooked. What happened?

[oneighty]

2. Sorry ISP cut me off or something.

There is the finish. It really was funny.

Hee! Hee!

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[Submariner]

3. I used to retrieve practice torpedoes

in the late '60s. The wetsuits were that bulky neoprene (that let the cold water in the gaps) and they hadn't invented or supplied us with pressure and depth gauges.

I can't believe I'm still alive after diving for years with a J-valve and we didn't decide to return to the surface until we got dizzy (narced), which was the signal that maybe it's time to end the dive. Safety stop....never heard of it. A little bent....just shake it off the Chief would say.

Today I use a dive computer and am amazed at the limits I pushed years ago and survived.

[oneighty]

4. Decompression stops are for sissys.

We did not have depth gages watches (Unless we bought them ourselves) The sixty minute tables were fairly knew and nobody understood em any way especially the Master Divers.

We just do "follow the slowest bubbles" if you could see them.

I got bent one time. Ouch that smarts.

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[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. following the bubbles works just fine

never got bent... yet.

[oneighty]

6. Do you recall the expression:

"Get bent?" Perhaps you are too young.

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[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. Sure, still use it

Love it.