This may be a bit off topic, but when I used to live in Roanoke VA, a local sail boater managed to sail into a high tension line with his aluminum mast. He was knocked overboard into the lake which was around 200 feet deep and the color of Coca Cola. A friend on the local dive recovery team spend days looking for this guy, but he went straight to the bottom. Smith Mt. Lake is a fairly recent man made lake and the assumption was that the body was lodged in the pine trees on the bottom. A few weeks later, a woman and her son were fishing in a row boat, and our friend returned,torpedo like, to the surface at a fairly high rate of speed, went airborne and landed in their boat. The sound made by the gasses expanding by 7 atmospheres was apparently quite something to behold. cu *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Oct 04 2000 - 11:57:39 PDT
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