“three men — a commercial diver, an amateur historian and an attorney”
Sounds like the makings of a joke.
;’)
a commercial diver, an amateur historian and an attorney walked into a bar and the bartender asked “why the long face Lurch?”
They walk into a bar...
Well, we may already have a joke — a poor one — in that the writer’s twisted sentence composition has the 3 men described as a Holy Grail:
Considered by some to be a Holy Grail of Puget Sound archaeology, three men — a commercial diver, an amateur historian and an attorney....
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He needs to take a basic composition course.