Seems Mr Watson, with his ever-changing accounts of what happened, should begin each of his Sea Stories with, “Now this is no $**t.” Maybe he’ll get some old Navy guys on his jury who understand the telling of a Sea Story.
That being said, “Now this is no $**t”...
As an old Navy Diver, we had a diving job on old conventional sub back in ‘66 replacing a sound transducer. It’s location was between the pressure hull and the deck amid lots of piping etc. Cramped space dictated SCUBA tanks wouldn’t allow access so we used a Jack Brown mask (surface supplied air hose hook to a full face mask).
The hose to one of the masks parted leaving the diver with no air. The dive partner’s quick action saved the day as they shared air from his mask as they crawled out of the confines and surfaced. The incident gave deeper meaning to the term Diving Buddy.
That was back when diving was dangerous business. Were you the one who lost his air?
Talk about two divers who kept thier cool in a very dangerous situation!