Close calls with alligators
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ScubaSteve
Wow.....what a DB
Yep, we'd have some margaritas and a good time too!!
Margaritas with Jennifer :shelli: or dive and lose a pound of flesh from my :mooner: to a gator....I know which one I am going to pick. Bottoms UP (and I do not mean :mooner:'s UP
)
SCUBAJENNIFER
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You have chosen wisely!
:shelli:
:shelli:
ScubaSteve
Wow.....what a DB
trogloxene
Guest
Night diving and alligators - no thank you.
I read in Sheck Exley's "Caverns Measureless to Man" that alligators do not go very deep (can't equalize
) and once you are below 15 - 20 ffw you should be OK. Any truth to this?
Sean
I read in Sheck Exley's "Caverns Measureless to Man" that alligators do not go very deep (can't equalize
) and once you are below 15 - 20 ffw you should be OK. Any truth to this?Sean
SCUBAJENNIFER
Contributor
Night diving and alligators - no thank you.
I read in Sheck Exley's "Caverns Measureless to Man" that alligators do not go very deep (can't equalize
Sean
Yeah, but you gotta come up sometime. :11doh:
trogloxene
Guest
Damn! There's always a catch. I will come up after you tell me the coast is clear
Sean
I was in the cooper two weeks ago in the day. Lots of gators on the banks, and one close up. The captain watched a big gator notice my smb when it surfaced. The gator was headed out to check it out. He got to the smb just before the three of us surfaced. Our bubbles made it pause, and when we surfaced he was there looking at us. Our voices scared him right off though. It was a rush.
Of course, later in the day, I bumped my side against something big and gatorlong and hard.. That tree trunk scared the crap out of me. But the 26 whole teeth and all the other stuff we brought up made it all worth it. Live a little! Then drink like hell afterwards.....
Of course, later in the day, I bumped my side against something big and gatorlong and hard.. That tree trunk scared the crap out of me. But the 26 whole teeth and all the other stuff we brought up made it all worth it. Live a little! Then drink like hell afterwards.....
sporket
Contributor
I was in the cooper two weeks ago in the day. Lots of gators on the banks, and one close up. The captain watched a big gator notice my smb when it surfaced. The gator was headed out to check it out. He got to the smb just before the three of us surfaced. Our bubbles made it pause, and when we surfaced he was there looking at us. Our voices scared him right off though. It was a rush.
Of course, later in the day, I bumped my side against something big and gatorlong and hard.. That tree trunk scared the crap out of me. But the 26 whole teeth and all the other stuff we brought up made it all worth it. Live a little! Then drink like hell afterwards.....
I'm with you on all of the above totally. Until a buddy just downstream stabs a gator, and another is swimming towards me within 10", all during mating season on a night dive. Then, I think I'll just drink and talk about diving.
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