After watching “DRENCHED” on Youtube I decided it was time to log this bit of life that is mine.<\/p>\n
Somewhere around 1957 a Navy guy landed in Pleasant Lake with a big kit. And somehow he ended talking to Dad at the Hardware.\u00a0 It turns out he was a UDT type guy from the Navy hitchhiking back to Michigan after his discharge.\u00a0 Dad invited him to come to the evening family dinner and he agreed to do so.\u00a0 Well, we had a great chat and finally he volunteered he had used the scuba gear and had the full outfit in his kit.\u00a0 I had watched Loyd Bridges on Sea Hunt so I was really intrigued.\u00a0 In the end, Dad had invited him to stay and teach Andy & I to scuba dive for the next week.\u00a0 I immediately love the below water scene and embraced it fully.<\/p>\n
That same summer I used all my savings and some from Dad to buy a scuba tank, fins, a small amount of weights and the regulator.\u00a0 I started diving but had a problem – no one would fill my tank.\u00a0 Angola had a place called Botts Welding,\u00a0 that was right on top of where the current Walmart is now, but when I called they asked my age and I told him so he said only if Dad authorized it would he fill the tank.\u00a0 Dad called him and he said OK.\u00a0 Simple as that I was a Diver. No PADI, no certifications, no nothing.\u00a0 Over the years a dive club formed in Angola and I was a loose associate.\u00a0 They were all much older than me but I know the physics a lot more than they did so I was sort of adopted into the group.<\/p>\n
Most of my diving was in Pit Lake at the time and the club loved this. The waters were not deep so it was a perfect training ground and we taught a lot of local divers in this lake.\u00a0 It is the Boy Scout camp now and is totally off limits to the public , local or otherwise.\u00a0 One day this guy with the last name V… brought a guy who was sort of marginal and not a good swimmer.\u00a0 So we strapped on the gear and went down a few feet and came back up.\u00a0 He seemed ok so we presented an lot of technical data relating to diving and he repeated it back.\u00a0 We proceeded to dive the bottom across the lake from the beach and he was OK until we reached about 3\/4 across the lake (about a 1\/4 mile wide and 20′ at that spot).\u00a0 He panicked and dashed for the surface fast.\u00a0 We did not dare to follow so fast (you only can rise as fast as your smallest bubbles) but we did follow.\u00a0 He was in full panic when we got to the surface so I started to Red Cross Lifeguard carry him to the beach.\u00a0 The other guy V took over about half way back and we got him to the beach.\u00a0 It was a bad deal and we never dove that lake again as a group.\u00a0 Too bad since it was the perfect training and clear lake in the area.<\/p>\n
The club did a lot of diving in Crooked Lake but the silt was so bad vis was only 5′ and not really good for anything except basic scuba breathing underwater.\u00a0 Pleasant Lake did have an event called a “Submarine Rodeo” that we dove a lot in after years.. The Lions Club sponsored this event and all the divers in the tristate area would come to participate.\u00a0 There was a “weight carry”, a find the submarine, fastest swim and other shallow water diving events like compass course, etc.\u00a0 I almost won the weight carry and came in second one year.\u00a0 I was also on TV, Channel 15, one year with a celebrity who wore my gear to go about 3′ under water and had a real interview on scuba diving.<\/p>\n
There is lots more and if I ever get there again I will come back and add as an addendum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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