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UNDERWATER ALIEN - WRITING ASSIGMENT BASED ON A TRUE INCIDENT

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Weird Happening on Zombie Reef  Based on an underwater true event Class didn't agree - Sigh - Very bad mark  from  Louis C's  4th year Windsor U Creative Writing course   I don’t care if you believe me or not. Sometimes I think I made it all up. Then there was last Friday when I was yelled at by former dive buddy Dr. J in the Miami Airport, and we-are-not-alone truth of what happened on Zombie Reef comes back full bore.   By Stephen Weir This truth goes back a decade or so. I picked up a gig with a TV show,  Strange Undersea Adventures . It was done-on-the-real-cheap. Each week the show would visit a different dive destination in the Caribbean. The host country picked up the tickets. The dozen crew members stayed on a live-aboard boat moored overtop of the dive sites to be featured. And when we were in port we’d pray someone would pick up the bar tab. The alcoholic producer dragged me along on this segment ‘cause of my last name. Weir. Weird. All the same to him. The week’s sh