Here's a good one for ya..
Last year my friend Dan and I were out on his 22ft sailboat just outside of Boca Ciega Bay... We anchored up, grabbed some plastick scrapers and jumped overboard to do some quick clean up on the waterline of the boat. He was in a spring suit, i was just in shorts. Things were going good but the number of boats speeding in the nearby channel were making it very difficult to work so we decided to just quickly finish up and call it a day. I got onboard and saw that I had a small amount of sea critters attached to my shorts.. nothing too bad. I dont know if they were sea lice, but they were almost too small to see with and had little legs on them. It was pretty damn gross.
I changed to clean clothes and Dan was just climbing back on board. He had been in the water for about 5 min more than me and was covered in dirt and muck. He was getting ready to change out of his sprink suit when he noticed that the dirt was not dirt, but instead, mounds and mounds of the little sea critters... probably about 2 inch thick and covering about 50% of his entire suit. It was perhaps the most disturbing thing I have ever seen. He freaked (as would anyone) and jumped overboard to clean his suit.
We dont scrape the boat like that anymore.
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