I had a buddy when I worked offshore that I would crew change with all the time , we would both worked together when ever setting up a brand new crane onto a structure , and we would get a few beers when we hit the beach , I never could out drink him and one day he told me why , he had got shot in the stomach in 'nam and lost like 6 ft of his intestines so the alcohol didn't get absorbed as much into his system ---- I think I hit every bar along the coast from Matagora to Mobile Bay
I caught many of fish while working offshore , use to fish from the 80ft deck , got a old welded out there named Ar'dorn to weld me a stainless grapple , and had a 100 ft of 1/4 inch rope to it with a snap hook on the line , when you got the fish to the top , you would snap the hook to the line and lower the grapple below the fish , spike the fish and pull him up by hand ------use to bring many pounds of fillets of red snapper and grouper home , I would bring as many pounds as I could get away with on the chopper for flight weights and give the rest to others -----then one day they say " the Wildlife and Fisheries is considering your stay offshore as a one day fish trip , so you are only allowed to bring in a one day limit " , so then one day I am flying into Bayou Beouf on a Stakorsy 76 which hold 13 and two pilots ,when we hit the coast the pilot comes over the load speaker and says , Wildlife and Fisheries is at the heliport and they are checking baggage for fish , so when we got off the Wildlife was standing there right at the end of the walking path to the building door , everybody gets off and the chopper was still loaded down with bags of fish , they stopped every body and then asked whose bags are those , nobody knew nothing , that was the end of fishing out there for me
