Wayne Haggard and Shannon Haggard (G)
(3:44) The Haggards discuss the dangers of diving and some of the equipment they use while diving. 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 resident...
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(3:44) The Haggards discuss the dangers of diving and some of the equipment they use while diving. 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 7 of 11
Rhonda Haygood: What do you think poses the greatest danger?
Shannon Haggard: Ma’am?
RH: in doing this?
SH: Oh, danger?
RH: Danger to you when you’re diving?
SH: Uh—
Wayne Haggard: Fish nets would be the worst danger.
SH: I’d say, yeah, nets, fish nets, wind, wind that would, see you are hooked to your boat the whole time you’re down, so wind that would take you or drag you off of a drop- off into a net or nets or the wall nets, gill nets, they’re, they’re pretty dangerous. We just draw up when we think about those. But ah the biggest danger would be yourself, I guess. Because if you know, if you panic you drown, you’re dead. And there’s quite a few people drowning, but you got to you got to stay calm whenever you run into something you know.
WH: Use common sense.
SH: Yeah, one time—
WH: I’ve run into the nets before and it’s just like you crawling on a right here, if you crawl and you run into that door, you not going to try to go through that door you back up and you you know, you just sort of say, “ Okay net you stay there and I’ll back off and get away from it and go somewhere else.” Or hooks, I’ve had, I’ve caught hooks get me caught back here where I couldn’t hardly get a hold of them you know.
SH: We’ve had about everything that you can think of.
WH: Yeah, we’ve had hoses, these hoses blow off.
SH: Yeah. WH: You the first one to know if you’re down there on the bottom. [ laughter]
WH: I’ve got a, a thirteen gallon, actually a beer keg, stainless steel, with a moisture separator that I pump full of air also. If my compressor runs out of gas see I’ve still got this thing full of air. And it, I’ve got five minutes.
SH: And you can feel the decreases in breathing, feel it going down.
WH: It takes you—
Patti Hannah: Oh, can you?
WH: Yeah, when you got to where you have to pull on your air, its, we use a second stage regulator just like they do in scuba diving and this keeps a say hundred pounds down to you at all times. It’s just like breathing right here if you got a good regulator, second stage regulator. But when you go to have to [ sound effect] you know have to pull on to try to get a breath of air, it’s time to come up. I used to have one, I had me a little alternator mounted on it. And we do use lights. If you’re in over say twenty feet of water, you need light, it gets dark.
SH: We have to use our hands you know to find everything and we cut them, I mean.
PH: Yeah, you can’t use any kind of gloves I guess?
WH: Yeah, we got—
PH: You got, you do gloves?
WH: Yeah.
SH: We use like dish washing gloves, but all different types of gloves. Might get a pair lasts a week but we just order them by the box. Just—
PH: Yeah.
WH: Got to have something thin enough you can tell you know the difference between a shell and a rock or whatever.
PH: Right.
WH: It’s it’s just a, it’s sort of like a, I call it the last frontier on earth. I mean you got the space, and all of us not going out in space but ninety- nine out of a hundred people are not going to go down there on the bottom of that river and crawl around.
SH: Two- thirds of, two- thirds of the earth is covered in water. PH: Right.
SH: If you don’t go down you don’t know.
PH: That’s true.
WH: You gonna miss it.
PH: That’s true.
WH: It’s beautiful down there,
SH: I like to see it all.
WH: You can see catfish. You can see catfish and bass. Bass will worry you to death. They’ll just get right in front of you, just sit there.
SH: They’re not afraid of you. It’s like you are in an aquarium room or something. They just sit there. Matter of fact you can cut the shells open and feed, feed the fish you know. The brim and the little small bass. Larger bass, they’ll, they’ll, they’re kind of leery you know. But smaller fish you can feed them.
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Wayne Haggard and Shannon Haggard (G)Diving(3:44) The Haggards discuss the dangers of diving and some of the equipment they use while diving. 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 7 of 11
Rhonda Haygood: What do you think poses the greatest danger?
Shannon Haggard: Ma’am?
RH: in doing this?
SH: Oh, danger?
RH: Danger to you when you’re diving?
SH: Uh—
Wayne Haggard: Fish nets would be the worst danger.
SH: I’d say, yeah, nets, fish nets, wind, wind that would, see you are hooked to your boat the whole time you’re down, so wind that would take you or drag you off of a drop- off into a net or nets or the wall nets, gill nets, they’re, they’re pretty dangerous. We just draw up when we think about those. But ah the biggest danger would be yourself, I guess. Because if you know, if you panic you drown, you’re dead. And there’s quite a few people drowning, but you got to you got to stay calm whenever you run into something you know.
WH: Use common sense.
SH: Yeah, one time—
WH: I’ve run into the nets before and it’s just like you crawling on a right here, if you crawl and you run into that door, you not going to try to go through that door you back up and you you know, you just sort of say, “ Okay net you stay there and I’ll back off and get away from it and go somewhere else.” Or hooks, I’ve had, I’ve caught hooks get me caught back here where I couldn’t hardly get a hold of them you know.
SH: We’ve had about everything that you can think of.
WH: Yeah, we’ve had hoses, these hoses blow off.
SH: Yeah. WH: You the first one to know if you’re down there on the bottom. [ laughter]
WH: I’ve got a, a thirteen gallon, actually a beer keg, stainless steel, with a moisture separator that I pump full of air also. If my compressor runs out of gas see I’ve still got this thing full of air. And it, I’ve got five minutes.
SH: And you can feel the decreases in breathing, feel it going down.
WH: It takes you—
Patti Hannah: Oh, can you?
WH: Yeah, when you got to where you have to pull on your air, its, we use a second stage regulator just like they do in scuba diving and this keeps a say hundred pounds down to you at all times. It’s just like breathing right here if you got a good regulator, second stage regulator. But when you go to have to [ sound effect] you know have to pull on to try to get a breath of air, it’s time to come up. I used to have one, I had me a little alternator mounted on it. And we do use lights. If you’re in over say twenty feet of water, you need light, it gets dark.
SH: We have to use our hands you know to find everything and we cut them, I mean.
PH: Yeah, you can’t use any kind of gloves I guess?
WH: Yeah, we got—
PH: You got, you do gloves?
WH: Yeah.
SH: We use like dish washing gloves, but all different types of gloves. Might get a pair lasts a week but we just order them by the box. Just—
PH: Yeah.
WH: Got to have something thin enough you can tell you know the difference between a shell and a rock or whatever.
PH: Right.
WH: It’s it’s just a, it’s sort of like a, I call it the last frontier on earth. I mean you got the space, and all of us not going out in space but ninety- nine out of a hundred people are not going to go down there on the bottom of that river and crawl around.
SH: Two- thirds of, two- thirds of the earth is covered in water. PH: Right.
SH: If you don’t go down you don’t know.
PH: That’s true.
WH: You gonna miss it.
PH: That’s true.
WH: It’s beautiful down there,
SH: I like to see it all.
WH: You can see catfish. You can see catfish and bass. Bass will worry you to death. They’ll just get right in front of you, just sit there.
SH: They’re not afraid of you. It’s like you are in an aquarium room or something. They just sit there. Matter of fact you can cut the shells open and feed, feed the fish you know. The brim and the little small bass. Larger bass, they’ll, they’ll, they’re kind of leery you know. But smaller fish you can feed them.
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