If you want to talk about nut… think about a Caribbean guy playing in winter alpine environments and even ice diving…
Talking about ice diving.
About 7 or 8 years ago I was visiting Puerto Rico and went to my old dive shop, Divers Service Center. I was talking to my old boss, the owner (well he is actual not as old as I thought he was). But he is still as nutty as he always was. He was telling me a story about all this talk about ice diving got him to where he wanted to experience what it was all about… (did I mentioned I was in PR?). Well the nutty Alberto (yeah, that has always been his nickname) decided he was going to buy a truck load of large block ice. By a truck, I mean a big delivery truck full of large blocks of ice.
They delivered the block ice right on to his swimming pool!
He tried to cover the entire pool with the blocks of ice. It didn't work the way he expected (no surprise there
). But, he said it was great! It was like diving in a “cocktail”!
OK, if you don’t know Alberto, this is probably not a funny as it is to me. But I know Alberto well (even though that I have not seen him in over three decades) and I can just see him in the water with the ice blocks all around him… And yeah he is still as much of a Nutt as I remember him… And yes, the image of a large Cocktail with Alberto swimming in it is hard to describe...
Note: I am sure there were probably a few other cocktails involved.
Now that I think about it… when it comes to nutty… we are just amateurs.
Actually doing stuff in the cold is just what you do when that is what you have handy.