Give This Man Hazard Pay, And A Roll Of Bounty

Talk about dedication. The AP reporter who jumped into the Gulf of Mexico earlier this week is doing what most people wouldn’t dare to do.

Rich Matthews’ firsthand account went up yesterday.

Ten minutes in, it got to be too much and he tried to get back out. But the boat captain wouldn’t let him in until he’d spent thirty minutes scrubbing.

“My job as a journalist is to take people places they can’t go, and I take that seriously,” he told