10 | <strong>01945</strong> DIVER, continued from page 8 “I used to go by myself all the time, I didn’t want anyone to go with me. Because, if I find a treasure, I’m not going to share it… And then all of a sudden he starts diving with me… and there he is, bubbles and all,” Cassidy said. Tyler said the coolest thing he’s seen underwater, so far, is his dad. Cassidy and Tyler went out on the water one beautiful afternoon on friend David Smith’s lobster boat, Blue Magic. Cassidy’s was hauled in at the moment. Cassidy always has a tender with him who drives the boat while he and Tyler go underwater together. The guys suited up, putting on about 120 pounds worth of gear. Tyler jumped off the boat towards his buoy and dive bag, and Cassidy followed suit toward his own. Around 15 to 20 minutes later, the guys popped back up. Tyler’s bag was filled with urchins, while Cassidy had a few crabs, urchins, scallops, and even a boot that looked like it was in the process of becoming one with the ocean floor. On a typical diving day, Cassidy said they go through four tanks and usually go out on his 13-foot whaler, the Stuff It. “(My father) would be out in the water, and he’d wave to people and they wouldn’t wave back. So, he’d give ‘em a bouquet of (middle fingers), (and say) ‘stuff it!’” Cassidy said. “So when he passed, my mom goes, ‘I want to get a boat, I want to name it Stuff It.’” Cassidy sells most of his urchins and scallops to Patriot Seafoods in Salem. He said he considers diving underwater therapeutic and can’t imagine doing anything else. “You can look out at the water like this, oh it’s beautiful. You go underneath it, it’s a totally different world,” Cassidy said. “There’s crabs, there’s lobsters, there’s fish, there’s seals; they come around and play with you in the winter.” “My boat is our world,” he continued. Tyler said that when he grows up, he’d like to be a commercial diver, just like his dad. “I never, ever imagined having my son with me at 50 feet, diving right alongside of me, at 12 years old,” 45 Cassidy said. Doug Cassidy and his son, Tyler, show off their sea urchin T-shirts. Tyler Cassidy lugs his oxygen tank onto the boat before heading out to dive with his dad, Doug. <strong>01945</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2024</strong>.indd 10 6/4/24 12:14 PM
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