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Yep, we'd have some margaritas and a good time too!!
Margaritas with Jennifer or dive and lose a pound of flesh from my to a gator....I know which one I am going to pick. Bottoms UP (and I do not mean 's UP )
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All day, Every day, underwater = HEAVEN Diving My Way - my non-professional website Blog about nothing - a place for me to force my opinion onto the reader. "It is better to remain silent and appear dumb, than to speak and remove all doubt." -- Winston Churchill --
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?
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?
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.....
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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.
or dive and lose a pound of flesh from my 
to a gator....I know which one I am going to pick. Bottoms UP (and I do not mean 
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) and once you are below 15 - 20 ffw you should be OK. Any truth to this?
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