Well, the first day of 2008 lobster mini season turned out to be beautiful; calm sea and plenty of bugs! (Another blessing from God). My dive buddy and I had 8 tanks total but only needed to use 6 to get our 24 lobsters. We really enjoyed the beautiful day in the water and were all smiles with our limit of bugs aboard the boat.. This is the GOOD news.
Now the BAD news :-(… On the way back to the dive shop, on I-95 North, all of a sudden traffic decided to stop for no reason whatsoever (surprised?). We were able to stop on time but the full size working van behind us had no idea what was going on in front of him. By the time he realized what was going on it was too late. He tells me he was going 60 miles an hour when he applied his brakes. On top of it all, he had bad brakes so only the front wheels engaged!!! SLAMN!!!! Thank God the boat was strapped down!!
Damage: Broken Transom :-( Broken Bottom unit, and Trailer bent. (I think it is totaled). BUT nobody was hurt. Of course, we had no boat to go out on the second day :-(.
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