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my uncle is a professional shellfish scuba diver, he collects wild shellfish and sells to the restaurants
he is 30 years in the business and has few health problems do to it, carrying heavy weight damaged his back,
cold damaged his nerves he can't fully close his left wrists like he has arthritis but is in his 50's
but spending summers whit him is the best, he takes the family to the deserted mini islands on the coast of the Adriatic sea,
we help him whit equipment, he goes diving for 2 to 4 hours depending on how many bottles he takes, in a diving season,
he can get 4 to 10 kilos of shellfish. his son even got into the business long before he was an adult, he dived by breath and
collected shellfish closer to the shore. he is licensed now and the job is so lucrative that by the 18 he already had a
motorbike and a car, not to mention most cash out of all his peers.
also, my uncle never found any pirate treasure (lol), but he sometimes finds odd trinkets that he brings up, an octopus that we eat,
empty wallets, sunglasses, once a digital camera that I opened and took sd card out and found it still working and now I have
a random photo album of a Russian family on their vocation, diving masks and other scuba equipment sold in gift shops, rings, fishing hooks, and roads,
parts of boats and boat furniture, most interesting is ceramic smoking pipes that can be few centuries old, and even parts of an amphora.
and one-time rear type of Mediterranean seal came and whit interest watched him do his job, my uncle didn't even flinch just kept collecting while the animal circled him.
don't know if this is related to thread but was inspired to share.
