Wayne Haggard and Shannon Haggard (E)

(3:32) The Haggards discuss the air supply and air compressors used during diving for mussels. They also discuss unique underwater experiences. This interview was conducted as part of a joint project of the Music Preservation Society and the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library. This project focus...

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Wayne Haggard and Shannon Haggard (E)
Florence-Lauderdale Public Library
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Diving
description (3:32) The Haggards discuss the air supply and air compressors used during diving for mussels. They also discuss unique underwater experiences. This interview was conducted as part of a joint project of the Music Preservation Society and the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library. This project focus was oral history interviews with area residents who had lived or worked on the Tennessee River.Florence- Lauderdale Public Library Digital Archive Interview with Wayne Haggard and Shannon Haggard November 19, 2007 Waterloo, Alabama Conducted by Patti Hannah and Rhonda Haygood Clip 5 of 11 Wayne Haggard: But this is our air supply. It’s a little oil- less air compressor, same kind the dentist uses when he blows air in your mouth, no oil in it. We pump the air in that you’re breathing right now. I mean, no oil and it. This is the intake, it comes out here. I got a hose tied to it that goes out the front of my boat. And I got a hook on that hose and a safety line when we climb back up with when we get a load of shells. It’s hooked to the front of the boat. Now I got my hose thirty feet. But I also got some hooks down if I’m going in shallow water, I’ll hook it down to fifteen feet, whatever you know, twenty feet. I got two or three different size hooks that will judge my depth. But if I’m going in deep water, let it all out you know. And you can go down thirty feet deep, you run out of hose you know that’s far enough. You got one atmospheric pressure on you right now as we stand here, fourteen point seven, P. S. I., I think, pounds per square inch. You go down thirty feet, you double that. But you’re still safe. You live down there the rest of your life, won’t hurt nothing. You go below thirty- three feet, it goes to compressing it. Shannon Haggard: A different atmosphere. [ inaudible] WH: [ inaudible] Three more feet will give you another atmosphere. Three more feet will probably give you three more atmospheres which will compress the bubbles in your blood. Which you know when you come up too fast causes the bends. Rhonda Haygood: Has there been anything really unusual that you have found while you were down there? Like you mentioned arrowheads? WH: I found about a ten pound catfish in that bag one day and I wanted him out and he wanted out. [ laughter] And if it’s any way possible it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. But, no snakes. SH: I’ve seen one snake. WH: You’ve seen one snake? SH: One snake, diving, I got up in shallow water, it just went across in front of my mask; I didn’t think nothing about it though. WH: I’ve never seen, I’ve never seen a snake SH: Don’t bother them, they won’t bother you. WH: Turtles, I’ve never seen a turtle really. But one of the worst things I guess is stumps. Over the years the water has washed out from under the stumps and the roots are up four feet, five feet off of the ground and some of them reach out thirty, twenty or thirty feet you know just sticking out like a big giant spider. Well here you come crawling along and you get up under them roots and you try to raise up and say uh- oh. Then you try to get out. And it’s best you do, you don’t want to get tangled up in something. SH: These stumps you’re talking about some of them, or the majority of them have got cuts where they cut them with hand or cross saws and it will be an offset cut like this on each one of them. You feel the top of them? It’s where they, before chain saws where they cleared the land before they flooded the river. That’s kinda neat. WH: And them same old stumps, they backed this water up I think they complete, got it completed in 1933 SH: ‘ Thirty- eight. WH: ‘ Thirty- eight? SH: ‘ Thirty- three, flooded in ‘ thirty- eight. WH: Them same old stumps are still there and they’re still just as hard and strong and tough as they ever was. Under water I don’t reckon they will rot. Patti Hannah: Oh, my goodness. SH: Has to have to have air to rot. RH: I didn’t know that. PH: I didn’t know that either. WH: It’s uh, of course it ‘ s a good fish habitat. SH: I have a few friends that’s found some Civil War stuff. I’ve never found nothing. Uh, some belt buckles and stirrups, but horseshoes.
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spelling Wayne Haggard and Shannon Haggard (E)Diving(3:32) The Haggards discuss the air supply and air compressors used during diving for mussels. They also discuss unique underwater experiences. This interview was conducted as part of a joint project of the Music Preservation Society and the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library. This project focus was oral history interviews with area residents who had lived or worked on the Tennessee River.Florence-Lauderdale Public LibraryFlorence-Lauderdale Public LibraryWayne Haggard and Shannon Haggard2007-11-19sound; textaudio/mp3; text/pdfEnglishIs part of the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library CollectionContact the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library for permission to useFlorence- Lauderdale Public Library Digital Archive Interview with Wayne Haggard and Shannon Haggard November 19, 2007 Waterloo, Alabama Conducted by Patti Hannah and Rhonda Haygood Clip 5 of 11 Wayne Haggard: But this is our air supply. It’s a little oil- less air compressor, same kind the dentist uses when he blows air in your mouth, no oil in it. We pump the air in that you’re breathing right now. I mean, no oil and it. This is the intake, it comes out here. I got a hose tied to it that goes out the front of my boat. And I got a hook on that hose and a safety line when we climb back up with when we get a load of shells. It’s hooked to the front of the boat. Now I got my hose thirty feet. But I also got some hooks down if I’m going in shallow water, I’ll hook it down to fifteen feet, whatever you know, twenty feet. I got two or three different size hooks that will judge my depth. But if I’m going in deep water, let it all out you know. And you can go down thirty feet deep, you run out of hose you know that’s far enough. You got one atmospheric pressure on you right now as we stand here, fourteen point seven, P. S. I., I think, pounds per square inch. You go down thirty feet, you double that. But you’re still safe. You live down there the rest of your life, won’t hurt nothing. You go below thirty- three feet, it goes to compressing it. Shannon Haggard: A different atmosphere. [ inaudible] WH: [ inaudible] Three more feet will give you another atmosphere. Three more feet will probably give you three more atmospheres which will compress the bubbles in your blood. Which you know when you come up too fast causes the bends. Rhonda Haygood: Has there been anything really unusual that you have found while you were down there? Like you mentioned arrowheads? WH: I found about a ten pound catfish in that bag one day and I wanted him out and he wanted out. [ laughter] And if it’s any way possible it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. But, no snakes. SH: I’ve seen one snake. WH: You’ve seen one snake? SH: One snake, diving, I got up in shallow water, it just went across in front of my mask; I didn’t think nothing about it though. WH: I’ve never seen, I’ve never seen a snake SH: Don’t bother them, they won’t bother you. WH: Turtles, I’ve never seen a turtle really. But one of the worst things I guess is stumps. Over the years the water has washed out from under the stumps and the roots are up four feet, five feet off of the ground and some of them reach out thirty, twenty or thirty feet you know just sticking out like a big giant spider. Well here you come crawling along and you get up under them roots and you try to raise up and say uh- oh. Then you try to get out. And it’s best you do, you don’t want to get tangled up in something. SH: These stumps you’re talking about some of them, or the majority of them have got cuts where they cut them with hand or cross saws and it will be an offset cut like this on each one of them. You feel the top of them? It’s where they, before chain saws where they cleared the land before they flooded the river. That’s kinda neat. WH: And them same old stumps, they backed this water up I think they complete, got it completed in 1933 SH: ‘ Thirty- eight. WH: ‘ Thirty- eight? SH: ‘ Thirty- three, flooded in ‘ thirty- eight. WH: Them same old stumps are still there and they’re still just as hard and strong and tough as they ever was. Under water I don’t reckon they will rot. Patti Hannah: Oh, my goodness. SH: Has to have to have air to rot. RH: I didn’t know that. PH: I didn’t know that either. WH: It’s uh, of course it ‘ s a good fish habitat. SH: I have a few friends that’s found some Civil War stuff. I’ve never found nothing. Uh, some belt buckles and stirrups, but horseshoes. http://server15947.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/oral_hist,218