Bjorn Vang Jensen wrote:
> Mike Wallace wrote:
>
>> Every recovery dive is high risk, regarless of depth of water. Your
>> body might come up again, not always, for a couple hours to a day
>> then it's going back down.

I don't buy high risk for all of them, but I'm more than in agreement that
they're the most unpleasant dives one can make.  I've lost a few accident
victims on dry land and done a few rescues in the water.  So far, I've not
had to do a recovery.  I'm in no hurry and appreciate the fact that there
are people who do this occasionally, if not often.

> The Bayonet Man's job, which I understood to be passed down from
> father to son, was to scour the port area in a dug-out, armed with a
> World War 1-vintage, 3-foot long bayonet, mounted on a 6-8 foot long
> bamboo pole, with which he would puncture any dead, bloated body that
> floated to the surface, so it would sink back to the bottom!
>
> I didn't complain about my job for months afterwards :-)

I heard that.  I'd have had problems eating for a while as well.

Lee