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Back in 1970 and 1971 I worked for Jay Ray McDermott in the Gulf of Mexico. I worked on a jet barge (Jet 2) burying pipelines. There were a good many divers on the barge. Many of the divers were pretty interesting folks. Some would talk about a diver named Tex, most called him "Witchdoctor". They said that at the age of 70, he was the oldest working deep water diver in the Gulf, that they knew of. Everyone said that he was a vegetarian, and they thought that to be the reason for his long career. Witchdoctor was known to sell a concoction that would make a headache go away. It was something he invented, thus the name "Witchdoctor". All that used it said that all you needed to do was take a little cotton ball out of a small glass bottle and rub it across your forehead and the headache would go way within minutes. One of the engineers, Woody, on Jet 2 told me that Witchdoctor could hypnotize people. Woody said that Witchdoctor liked to hypnotize him and he had brought him back through 3 previous lifetimes. He said that in his next to last life that he was a cabin boy on a sailing ship that went down in a storm in the Gulf of Mexico. He said that in his last life he was a soldier in the Civil War that was killed in battle.
The job of Jet 2 was to jet the pipeline down into the sea floor to whatever depth the job required. Most of the time putting the pipe down 6 to 8 feet, if I remember correctly. One of the divers jobs was to walk the ditch we were cutting and make sure the pipe is falling in the hole correctly.
One would only have to imagine what a diver may find walking that ditch.
I am doing some research on a deep water diver that was looking for something on land that I am familiar with. This diver was eccentric and only ate vegetables. He was said to have been bitten by a water moccasin, took something out of his bag and smeared it over the wound, then pulled off all his clothes and swam out into a nearby lake and just floated for about 2 hours, then came out of the lake like nothing ever happened. I am not a treasure hunter, I am a story teller and there is much more to this story. The area the diver was searching many years ago contains a cemetery where civil war soldiers are buried. The cemetery is located close to a small town that bears the same name of where Woody said his civil war life was buried. There is an old man that lives not far from this cemetery that has the same name as Woody's Confederate Soldier. I haven't had time to go to the cemetery to search for the grave. The diver came to this area when he had time off and came for many years. One year he just stopped showing up at the folks house where he always stayed. This story all happened many years before Woody's hypnotism.
I can see where someone searching for something for years and not finding it, could turn them to look for another way to find what they are looking for.
What do you Treasure Netters think?
The job of Jet 2 was to jet the pipeline down into the sea floor to whatever depth the job required. Most of the time putting the pipe down 6 to 8 feet, if I remember correctly. One of the divers jobs was to walk the ditch we were cutting and make sure the pipe is falling in the hole correctly.
One would only have to imagine what a diver may find walking that ditch.
I am doing some research on a deep water diver that was looking for something on land that I am familiar with. This diver was eccentric and only ate vegetables. He was said to have been bitten by a water moccasin, took something out of his bag and smeared it over the wound, then pulled off all his clothes and swam out into a nearby lake and just floated for about 2 hours, then came out of the lake like nothing ever happened. I am not a treasure hunter, I am a story teller and there is much more to this story. The area the diver was searching many years ago contains a cemetery where civil war soldiers are buried. The cemetery is located close to a small town that bears the same name of where Woody said his civil war life was buried. There is an old man that lives not far from this cemetery that has the same name as Woody's Confederate Soldier. I haven't had time to go to the cemetery to search for the grave. The diver came to this area when he had time off and came for many years. One year he just stopped showing up at the folks house where he always stayed. This story all happened many years before Woody's hypnotism.
I can see where someone searching for something for years and not finding it, could turn them to look for another way to find what they are looking for.
What do you Treasure Netters think?
As long as you've got an intriguing story line going please flesh it out a bit more for us.
