[seadogg]

i can see where this is going, so i'm not about to indulge in your requests for a hypothetical scenario "bill". once again, cost or rate is not precalculated, but depends on a great number of variables that take place during the event (the pocketbook is not one of those). what you're trying to do here is solidify your argument, but you're running out of legs to stand on. you're not a professional tower, and you've likely never been involved in or even seen a real salvage take place (and i'm not talking about your friend's skiff that's stuck on a sandbar). to clarify, i'm not touting my accomplishments here, only standing up for my livelihood. oh, and implications that i'm making all of this up are amusing to me. once again, i'd be glad to invite you along sometime. i think i've wasted enough of my time, so i'm bowing out, knowing full and well that i'll meet more of your kind as time wears on. these instances are very few, but they are almost unavoidable, and if reason and facts don't get to you, i suspect not much will. for those of you who have been watching this debate unfold, i hope that you can see that most of the "horror stories" you've heard or have been told are nothing more than over embellishments, just like the original story that was posted. it's no accident that our member base grows every year, so i'll let that bit of information speak for itself.