Trials, Tribulations and some very good Diving

[Capt Terry]

Originally Posted by cdavisdb

BahamaStreaker,
You raise some very good points, with which I have more than a little sympathy. I think, though, that you are pointing the finger away from Bahamians, when the blame lies with all of us, you included. There is absolutely no question that the unrestricted spearing of most any clear water within range of US recreational and semi-commercial divers is a major problem.

Connor-
Bob Reiland, who has been mentioned on CSC, made multiple trips over the years from PB, Fla to the Bahamas in his 1965 21' “Unoho”. (See Unoho under Moesly Seacraft site, 21' Proud Owners.) Carl offered to sell Bob the Miami boat show model instead of the one ordered, because SeaCraft had orders to deliver boats to the U.S. government for use in Viet Nam (to those of us who are old enough to remember that time).
Bushwacker took “Restless Lady” on several of the Reiland trips and I was on 2-3 on friend’s boats. I remember one particular Reiland story where Bob was grousing he had a not-well-known location where he dived and found dinner a number of times until after one trip when he had a Bahamian native with him. On his subsequent visits to that site the fish were pretty depleted. He said he would never make that mistake again!