"Deadly
Bagfish"
Emergency
Report
There is another dreaded terror
of the deep that is even more awful
than the blenny!
A while back, farther back than I care to remember, while
working on an offshore
job with J&J Marine Divers, one of our hands
was attacked and others
terrified by the sudden appearance of a large number
of the "Deadly Bagfish",
as so aptly named by Don Murphy or Scotty
Naughton, or some other
damn fool whose name escapes me now. Seems like a drift
line came through, bearing
all manner of flotsam. There they were, lurking
below in the shadows with
the ling(cobia). Sure enough, when one of
our divers returned to
the surface, after leaving the 40 ft. stop, he was
attacked; Nay, engulfed
by one of the ugly creatures, all black, shiny,
and evil. Try as
hy might, he couldn't escape its clutches. Panicking
and blinded, with his
Miller "HARD HAT" engulfed by the thing, he had to
be pulled to the ladder
and probably would have been lost had it not been
due to the quick response
of a fearless tender, who, taking his own life
in his hands, climbed
down the diving ladder and after a fearsome struggle,
wrestled the hideous thing
off the diver's helmet. It was only by mere
chance that neither was
seriously hurt. A dreadful creature, and deadly
denizen of the deep is
the "Deadly Bagfish", existing in a number of
subspecies; Glad-bag,
Ruffies, and others too numerous to name here.
Somehow you must warn
others before they, too fall victims to
the bag-fish's deadly
attack.
MOAVWilliam
O.B.S.O.
Official Bagfish Safety Officer
The picture below is not for the faint of heart.
