06-12-2007, 11:42 PM
Here is a sea story from my active duty days.
It was the night before were were to leave on a 6mo deployment and some guys were fishing from the fantail of our destroyer. Well one of them caught a huge fish (sea bass I believe). So we all decided to give it a shot. Well in the Cooper River of SC. there are lots of cat fish. One of the guys didn't like to handle them so someone else volunteered to help him and remove all hooks from catfish. Needless to say that someone ended up getting impaled with a catfish fin. I thought he was messing around till I saw the fish stuck to his hand. I told him to wait till I ran and got some side cutters. When I returned with the side cutters he would not let me cut off the fin as it was stuck well through his finger. Well I ran to wake up the corpsman (it was late at night). The corpsman was suprised with his late wake up but told me to get that sailor to sickbay.
Longer story short, the corpsman did exactly what I was going to do but I guess it mattered to that kid that a corpsman was the one wielding the pliers. [crazy]
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It was the night before were were to leave on a 6mo deployment and some guys were fishing from the fantail of our destroyer. Well one of them caught a huge fish (sea bass I believe). So we all decided to give it a shot. Well in the Cooper River of SC. there are lots of cat fish. One of the guys didn't like to handle them so someone else volunteered to help him and remove all hooks from catfish. Needless to say that someone ended up getting impaled with a catfish fin. I thought he was messing around till I saw the fish stuck to his hand. I told him to wait till I ran and got some side cutters. When I returned with the side cutters he would not let me cut off the fin as it was stuck well through his finger. Well I ran to wake up the corpsman (it was late at night). The corpsman was suprised with his late wake up but told me to get that sailor to sickbay.
Longer story short, the corpsman did exactly what I was going to do but I guess it mattered to that kid that a corpsman was the one wielding the pliers. [crazy]
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