The Puffers

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You've not really lived until you've been held by the legs with your head underwater, hacking away at a rope with a blunt knife,

DID that off Stillwater Cove Monterey on a dive excursion only it was a nylon commercial fish net remnant. Better my prop than a passing migratory grey whale. Fortunately I was young (stupid but well insulated at 200Lbs.) and in a rented Aussie neoprene outfit with goggles. (rule one: never own your own dive $uit) I still have the dive knife w/fish line 'cutter notch' a most useful must-have tool on the inner right ankle. The best part was watching the ongoing Monterey Concourse d' Elegance Auto show through binoculars afterward and a good kelp-forest dive. Hindsight: the cheap solution: shaft rope cutter...that water's cold (32 F. @ 100ft.) BBY!