Loading ...I dove years ago with CAPT.Slate in KEY LARGO FLA ..There was the original STATUE Of CHRIST of the ABYSS a statue given by the Scuba Divers of ITALY to the Divers of The US ..CAPT SLATE takes tours there regularly .Its been there for many years and Capt Slate used to be the guy that cleaned it and kept it in good shape…Capt Slate is most likely gone now as this was 30 years ago.He was the most spectacular diver ..diving free diving without air tanks for 5minutes or more to put a show on of him feeding his pet 5 ft Barracuda or the 8ft long Moray eel all this in 40 feet of water holding his breath .I knew him personally as I assisted him in a small way getting the Fla Keys designated as a National Monument to keep commercial fishing off the reef.
I helped him Financially to raise money at a Symposium held in Richmond.
The “Statue” was one place he took all his divers to,he ran 5 boats with about 20 divers on each to the reef almost every day. He had the largest group of divers who regularly dove with him..I did many dives with him when I was younger.He did on his own time kept the Statue clean and did his best to keep the Coral Reefs in the KEYS pristine especially around Key Largo ..A Great Man…