In a message dated 2/1/2004 9:11:28 AM Central Standard Time,
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>
> > Well, the good news is that club member Allan Oppert is doing fine
> despite
> > being almost swallowed whole by a big shark on the weekend.  He says
> he
> > was at 20m on a 37m deep dive site and he saw it coming for him from
> > below, open it's jaws and then it swallowed both his bio-fins, his
> > speargun and started thrashing him around.  Then it spat him out and
> he
> > ascended. His mates cut the anchor rope and raced over, grabbed him
> and
> > hauled him out.  As he was being lifted from the water the shark came
> from
> > under the boat and passed by.  He has no doubts his mates pulled him
> from
> > the jaws of death. His fins are unmarked. Isn't that amazing?
> >
>

He would have spit me out because of the HUGH brown cloud that would be
developing.

A hell of a story.

Ray