Pretty Cool / Diving Book

[phatdaddy]

ferm. i think hammers right on about the hang time. i always feel better after a dive if i stop halfway for 3 or 4 minutes, then 3/4 for 5 minutes and then a 10 ft for as long as i can with air left. most of our diving up here is at least 70 ft and when lobstering usually 95 to 110. gotta remember navy tables are based 20 to 23 year old divers in top physical shape.

hammer have you read the "Shadow Divers"?

[phatdaddy]

ferm. i think hammers right on about the hang time. i always feel better after a dive if i stop halfway for 3 or 4 minutes, then 3/4 for 5 minutes and then a 10 ft for as long as i can with air left. most of our diving up here is at least 70 ft and when lobstering usually 95 to 110. gotta remember navy tables are based 20 to 23 year old divers in top physical shape.

hammer have you read the "Shadow Divers"?

[msbhammer]

Yo Phats. Yes I did read Shadow DIvers. I know John and Richie. Never dove with them, but met them. They dove on the Surface Interval out of Delaware that I dove off of and they did some diving off of Cape May last summer. The book was great, but not exactly true in some parts. It caused some problems up here in the
diving community. But they really had no control over what the writer wrote. The U-852 was not sunk by its own torpedo that many have thought. New naval records recently found, show that the sub was sunk by a U.S. Destroyer and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. As far as the amount of diving deaths, thats true. As do alot of divers have, including myself, you get the "China Fever" in attempting to go a little deeper, stay down a little longer in trying to get that artifact. Thats the Title of my new book, "China Fever". I get some real wood when I recover an old artifact that has been sitting on the bottom of the ocean inside a wreck for over 150 years. ;D

[msbhammer]

Yo Phats. Yes I did read Shadow DIvers. I know John and Richie. Never dove with them, but met them. They dove on the Surface Interval out of Delaware that I dove off of and they did some diving off of Cape May last summer. The book was great, but not exactly true in some parts. It caused some problems up here in the
diving community. But they really had no control over what the writer wrote. The U-852 was not sunk by its own torpedo that many have thought. New naval records recently found, show that the sub was sunk by a U.S. Destroyer and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. As far as the amount of diving deaths, thats true. As do alot of divers have, including myself, you get the "China Fever" in attempting to go a little deeper, stay down a little longer in trying to get that artifact. Thats the Title of my new book, "China Fever". I get some real wood when I recover an old artifact that has been sitting on the bottom of the ocean inside a wreck for over 150 years. ;D

[msbhammer]

Here's a few pictures of my "China Fever obsession"
Chinaware recovered from the China Wreck that went down in 1889 between Cape May and Lewes.



Broken china shards from the Severn that sunk off the Lewes beach after a Nor-east struck in 1774.



Two portholes from two seperate wrecks. One on the left is from a steel cargo ship nicknamed the flour wreck.
Its cargo was flour. Sunk in 1918. The smaller porthole is also from 1918 that came off the Nina, that was a torpedo supply ship/tug boat. All hands went down on the Nina.

[msbhammer]

Here's a few pictures of my "China Fever obsession"
Chinaware recovered from the China Wreck that went down in 1889 between Cape May and Lewes.



Broken china shards from the Severn that sunk off the Lewes beach after a Nor-east struck in 1774.



Two portholes from two seperate wrecks. One on the left is from a steel cargo ship nicknamed the flour wreck.
Its cargo was flour. Sunk in 1918. The smaller porthole is also from 1918 that came off the Nina, that was a torpedo supply ship/tug boat. All hands went down on the Nina.

[msbhammer]

Willy is gonna have to tie me up in the cuddy and beat me good with Chum's new V20 pole in order for me not to get wet this summer. *;D

[msbhammer]

Willy is gonna have to tie me up in the cuddy and beat me good with Chum's new V20 pole in order for me not to get wet this summer. *;D

[phatdaddy]

most of the stuff around here is much more recent than that. we do have a freighter that was sunk during wwII by german sub called the Empire Mica. mmost of the portholes are gone and it is picked over . it is in 115 ' of water. you are right though you always say i'm gonna hang on the top of the wreck, next thing you know, your knees are in the mud...

[phatdaddy]

most of the stuff around here is much more recent than that. we do have a freighter that was sunk during wwII by german sub called the Empire Mica. mmost of the portholes are gone and it is picked over . it is in 115 ' of water. you are right though you always say i'm gonna hang on the top of the wreck, next thing you know, your knees are in the mud...