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This page will display the wild and crazy stories sent to me over the web. If you have a funny, crazy, scary, helpful, but not dull story to tell send it to me and I'll publish the best I receive. The subject doesn't have to be about fishing , it could be about hunting, skin diving, driving to the grocery store, practically anything. If it's good send it and we will all have some fun. So keep in touch and visit often.

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I was given a sampling of comic art by David Davis and found it to be quite exquisite. His webpage Travels With Grandpaw describes his grandfather's stories in comic art form. If you have ever enjoyed your own grandfather's stories, or maybe even your dad's, drop on by David's site. Sit back, and relax with a few stories and remember how much simpler life used to be.

Here is a story from my best friend Jack, he is the same Jack in the HogWild article. He had just come back from a relaxing vacation in Mexico and here is what he sent me.

Well, I'm back from Mexico. Had a great time. Did a lot of diving. It was very relaxing except for about three minutes of stark terror when I had to save somebody's life. Did you know there really is a big drain plug at the bottom of the ocean? I was diving with Lynda's brother's friend Tonya. She was not a real experienced diver. We went down about 50 ft and were supposed to head over the wall to about 80 feet. When we started going down there was a current running towards the wall and from there it turned into a downward current running straight down into the Cozumel channel which is 3000 ft deep.

I started to adjust my boyancy to compensate but Tonya wasn't doing anything. She was just getting sucked down and was kind of frozen. I grabbed her and started to put air in her vest. Then all of a sudden we were engulfed in a storm of bubbles. Sombody below us had some sort of blowout. This freaked Tonya out even more and she just had a death grip on my arm. Then Tonya's regulator started to free flow and she couldnt see anything but bubbles in front of her mask. All this time the current is trying to suck us down to the bottom of the ocean and I am trying to watch our depth while controlling both my own vest and Tonya's and working on getting us out of the bubble storm and keping Tonya alive. I dragged us out of the current and got us started going up. All this time, Tonya's regulator is still free flowing and when I give her the "are you ok?" sign I get no response. By now we are going up too fast and I have to reverse the proceess and start dumping air from both vests to slow us down. We fnally surfaced and Tonya was nearly in tears. I looked at my computer and our total dive time was 5 minutes, we had hit 93 feet and Tonya had used a third of all the air in her tank. The boat came over and we got in. There was already another diver in the boat. His wife had been swept away and he didn't know where she was. Fortunately she surfaced a few minutes later. She was the one who had the blowout and she wasn't getting any air from her regulator. She had to do a free assent from over 80 feet. All in all it was a pretty wild dive. The rest of the week, however, was completely relaxing. Life saver Jack

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