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re: Diver pinned under water by an alligator figured he had choice: His arm or his life
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:41 pm to Nate Forrest
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:41 pm to Nate Forrest
There are probably several surgeries and a six months of recovery. His family has set up a page on GoFundMe to raise money to pay his medical bills.
So now it’s automatic that everyone asks that their medical bills get paid for them?
So now it’s automatic that everyone asks that their medical bills get paid for them?
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Posted on 4/23/24 at 7:02 pm to Nate Forrest
Posted on 4/23/24 at 7:27 pm to Nate Forrest
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His family has set up a page on GoFundMe to raise money to pay his medical bills.
Cool story bro, but pay for your own damn medical insurance; especially if you’re going to do stupid shite.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 7:30 pm to Nate Forrest
I guess screwdrivers are not good weapons against alligators.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 7:37 pm to SCLibertarian
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Dude looks like Chris Sale.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 7:38 pm to POTUS2024
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Georgitus
lilttle penicillin will clear that up
Posted on 4/23/24 at 7:43 pm to HogPharmer
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HogPharmer
This is exactly the content I look for when I visit this site.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 7:44 pm to tigeraddict
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Screwdriver to the gators eyes........
Or a Three Stooges peace sign double eye poke.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 7:48 pm to Chadaristic
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Dude looks like Chris Sale.
He's a Brave now:
Posted on 4/23/24 at 8:50 pm to GruntbyAssociation
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Or a three stooges finer poke to the eyes
Of all the reptiles in North America, alligators are known to have the least sense of humor.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 8:37 am to auggie
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There is a guy that posts here that goes by the handle " RiverDiver" and I'm pretty sure he's from S.C.. I'm sure it's not him, but the guy could start a heluva thread if it is.
Yep. Have a lot of dives logged in that river.
Truly blackwater diving. Technically you don’t swim along the bottom as in normal scuba diving, you weight yourself heavy and crawl around on the bottom. Visibility in a lot of the areas with a good light can range from arms length to a couple of inches.
The screwdriver he has isn’t really used to pry fossils from the bottom, you spike it into the bottom to try and hold position when the current is rolling.
Tons of gators in that river, and big ones. Troy Landry would want a bigger gun on some of them. We have a short gator season here that you have to get a permit through a lottery, my son and his buddies had one night to go out. They hooked an 8 footer because they were running out of time, they shot him in the head with a 9mm boatside. Thought he was dead, before they tried pulling him in he came back to life, tried eating the transom of the boat. Took four more shots to finish him off.
They took it to the processor, couple other guys were there with 12-13 footers they’d killed the same night.
Tons of stories from diving there.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 8:42 am to riverdiver
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Visibility in a lot of the areas with a good light can range from arms length to a couple of inches.
I'll stick to the springs in Florida
But I have gone out to some shipwrecks off Jax/St Aug before and we have Great Whites around fairly often. Visibility and the current just isn't very good in the Atlantic. I try not to think about it
Posted on 4/24/24 at 8:47 am to riverdiver
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Truly blackwater diving. Technically you don’t swim along the bottom as in normal scuba diving, you weight yourself heavy and crawl around on the bottom. Visibility in a lot of the areas with a good light can range from arms length to a couple of inches.
I made my living as a mussel diver back in the 90s.
It's similar. You weight yourself down and crawl along the bottom.
We would use a compressor and airline though and pull your boat behind you.
On most rivers, it would be blackwater, can barely see your hand on your mask.
On The Tennessee River though, you could usually see pretty well and it's cool diving.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 8:52 am to Nate Forrest
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gator shook the diver and dragged him 50 feet (15 meters) down
He must've been in the shipping lane because there's really nowhere else on that river it's 50 ft deep around that area.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 8:55 am to riverdiver
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riverdiver
That's nightmare fuel is what that is.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 9:51 am to Nate Forrest
I’ll ask: why not have a good dive knife in those waters?
Posted on 4/24/24 at 9:57 am to Nate Forrest
Damn gators need to be thinned down considerably.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 10:02 am to Nate Forrest
frick alligators. frick Crocodiles. And frick whatever cousins they have too.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 10:08 am to Honest Tune
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I’ll ask: why not have a good dive knife in those waters?
Most divers will carry a knife or dive tool as a standard part of their equipment. Don’t know if this guy had one. Maybe he couldn’t reach it. Maybe the screwdriver is what he had handy or already in his hand.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 12:53 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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He must've been in the shipping lane because there's really nowhere else on that river it's 50 ft deep around that area.
There’s some deeper holes upriver
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