
	RAG BAG I met Wheeler during the summer of 1955. I was an "about-to-be " high school student working for the summer at Scripps in the Department of Biochemistry. One of my first assignments from Wheeler was to scavenge through the box of "white rags" in the lab , retrieve the underwear, and cut off the elastic waist bands. These were an integral part of Wheeler’s dive gear. He used them to wrap around his wrists and ankles to hold them tears in his wet suit together. When we dove together I would have to help him into his "suit of lights", he holding out his appendages in order and I "bandaging". He sometimes resembled "the mummy" or at the very least a near fatal accident victim. His care of dive equipment was legendary, never rinsed with fresh water, carried in a old gunny sack. It later years this was upgraded to an apple crate, then to a net goodie bag. Chuck Mitchell