Scuba vs Alligators

[pantheraba]

Yeah, that whole we PSD dive where others won't extends to me when and if there are gators involved. Thank god I dive in NY!

Yeah; that whole "we PSD dive where others won't" extends to me when, and if, there are gators involved. Thank god I dive in NY!

OK...I finally got it...I had to read it multiple times to understand what it meant...punctuation is your friend.

 

[ffdiver]

Sorry about that. I'm just a dumb firefighter.

 

[pantheraba]

Sorry about that. I'm just a dumb firefighter.

Hahahah...no problem, bro...my son is a FF, too...love you guys.

 

[mdax]

dumb nothing, after 12 years engineering for banking companies i envy firefighters salaries, lifestyle, retirement and day to day work duties...

 

[ffdiver]

I understand being envious of the short work week, and retirement. But I get jealous myself of other's salaries. Thats not why you get into the work we do.

 

[Gary D.]

Getting into a public safety career is not about short work weeks, security and money. It’s what’s in your heart that brings you in this direction. Don’t plan on getting rich on this end of the spectrum but if you don’t do your job right and from the heart you could be a very poor sad soul.

 

[ffdiver]

I agree completely with you gary.

I got into public safety after my father passed away and I had no clue what to do, after that point, I never wanted to be in that situation ever again. And hopefully I would be able to help out other families while I was at it.

The short work weeks keep the stress level of this job way down for me. My schedule gives me alot of time to spend with my family and doing other things I love, which after a long shift of bad calls or just one bad call during a long shift, Is really needed to keep ya sane.

 

[200 Bar]

We routinely dive in lakes and ponds with gators in them...We use flashbangs to clear the high grass of gators and WATER MOCCASINS ..The moccasins we have encountered have been VERY aggressive...We dont hug them...We use a shotgun to kill them...The gators give us a few hundred yards then start coming bag, either another bang or shotgun pellets to scurry them off..Every once in a while we have run across an aggressive gator (Mating season ??) and had to call our resident trapper..(He works with us at the Sheriffs Office)He comes with a tape recorder of gator sounds, (I swear Im not kidding) and that works..

 

[Desert_Pirate]

I dealt with the gators on the cooper river just fine, they didnt bother us, had one track my bubbles across the surface, but that was about it.... Water Moccasins, however scare the hell out of me! We have had a few divers, and water skiers bitten by Rattle snakes up here at blacktail resevoir, The fall off the cliffs and swim across the water. I have not seen it but I hear its pretty common

 

[Gary D.]

I dealt with the gators on the cooper river just fine, they didnt bother us, had one track my bubbles across the surface, but that was about it.... Water Moccasins, however scare the hell out of me! We have had a few divers, and water skiers bitten by Rattle snakes up here at blacktail resevoir, The fall off the cliffs and swim across the water. I have not seen it but I hear its pretty common

DP, you need to come up here and dive. We have those man eating Perch. You just never know when one of those monstrous 6 inchers is going to attack. Almost lost my bait one day boy was that a close one.

And then there are the attack Crayfish.