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Been there in a way...extracted from a sub an upon surfacing I observed a visual version on your “alone”....versus your mental oh crap event.

Albeit I was only a short dive back to safety it was still thought provoking.

That said folks...never go into harms way for material items. Keepsakes aren’t worth ones life ....

Prayers for his wife an others lost.

We fished a little 32 footer, a modified Greek sponge boat hull built in 1928. The skipper was a technical wizard and became like a big brother to me. He modified an air force surplus Loran unit to work from a surplus 600V dynamotor and we were one of the first small boats in this area to have Loran. Everyone else in the shrimp and snapper fleets was using dead reckoning and RDF at the time.

If I had been with anyone other than Ted Yocius I'd probably still be out there.

Ted and his mother got out of Lithuania when he was just a kid, he could remember both Nazi and Soviet oppression. He was one tough nut, one of the strongest men I've ever known, and brilliant mentally to boot.

Ted and I had the kind of relationship where we would both be thinking along the same lines in just about any situation, a once in a lifetime friendship.Ted shared my love of photography and nature, he had a tropical seashell he discovered named in his honor.

Ted died a couple of years ago, it was the same as losing a brother.