This highly entertaining read follows the adventures of a pack of New Orleans-based middle-aged crazies whose idea of “sport” is hunting dangerous fish near offshore oil rigs. In addition to promoting and preserving the sports of diving and spearfishing, the club, along with the LCUDC, has partnered with the University of New Orleans, the University of Southern Mississippi and the National Ocean and Atmospheric Association to conduct research, including studies of the invasive lionfish and the tarpon.

Today, sportsmen come from across the nation to compete in the rodeo, which celebrated its 50th anniversary June 2 with a weigh-in and celebration at Kenner City Park. The inaugural rodeo was held at the Lake Pontchartrain lakefront in 1963 and had a competition for sheepshead. The Hell Divers meet twice a month, go on regular dive trips in the Gulf of Mexico and other locales, and compete in an annual rodeo for the largest amberjack, barracuda, cobia, grouper and red snapper, among other fish. The Hell Divers’ mission is to build knowledge about diving by using it for sports and scientific exploration to determine safe depth limits for divers and to help preserve sea life habitats, and to increase interest in the sport through education programs. The club limits its membership to 33, and membership requirements include being “proficient divers, the ability to stay out of trouble, helpful on the dive trip, and display a commitment to the club.” They also must be scuba certified and a member of the Louisiana Council of Underwater Dive Clubs (LCUDC). Started in 1963 by a dozen Metairie mailmen with a passion for spearfishing, the Hell Divers Spearfishing Club is one of the oldest in the nation. The fallout threatens everything in its path, putting the Coral Castle and X's remaining forces in dire peril.The Hell Divers by Kari Dequine Harden, Gambit New Orleans The truth of what happened at Brisbane is spreading, and so is radiation from the nuclear blast.

Michael's wife, Layla, is frantic to prove his innocence as evidence against him mounts.īack in Queensland, knights of the Coral Castle dragged captive Hell Diver Kade Long to their leader, known as the Forerunner, before locking him in a cell in the Coral Castle. Director Rodger Mintel sent out a desperate SOS as the voracious coils ripped into the bunker.Īt the Vanguard Islands, Charmer has framed Michael Everhart for two murders. In Panama, Outpost Gateway has suffered a very different disaster: attack by carnivorous vines. Little does he know that King Xavier and the surviving Hell Diver and Cazador teams from Brisbane were not aboard. In a shocking betrayal, Captain Rolo has vaporized the supercarrier Immortal with a nuclear warhead, all but wiping out the Vanguard army. Much is lost, but hope in one man remains.

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