Weirdest Thing You Ever Took Underwater

[VikingDives]

Years ago, my buddy and I were doing some work at a local dive site and needed to move a pretty substantial piece of metal.

I rigged a pretty big trash can for lift and tied it off with parachute cord. When we were done, the trash can was so buoyant, we couldn't tip it to deflate it. I ended up cutting the rigging and it rocketed to the surface, striking rock before it surfaced. It was the loudest BOOM I've ever heard underwater. There's video, but it doesn't do the experience justice.

That boom was super disconcerting to me, as I knew I was just below it.

 

[doctormike]

We used these for a few years as models for an underwater photography workshop. It's actually the plaster cast of a sculpture done by my dad many years ago...

PS Hey, @Trace Malinowski, great to hear from you again!

 

[Trace Malinowski]

Thanks, Mike. The head is great.

 

[Trace Malinowski]

Ping pong paddle for fanning for fossils. Various wrenches/tools for doing at sea repairs.

I learned about that ping pong paddle technique reading "The Deep" by Peter Benchley as a teen. I have used the paddle and tools myself. I'm trying to think of the weirdest tool I ever used. I did some inland commercial diving and they would sometimes give us some strange specialty tools for specific products.

 

[Gone for diving]

3inch trash pump, to dig out a cottage water line, figured the suction end would work the best, but it kept getting plugged with clams, so we flipped the lines around, and boy did that work well,
Big silt out, but did it ever move material!!!!

 

[Doc]

Thanks, Mike. The head is great.

My girlfriend used to mistakenly call me Mike when she got all worked-up.

The weirdest thing…I ever seed what been dragged on down? A chandelier which still hangs off the forward davit of CCV’s Front Yard Prince Albert Wreck.

 

[Searcaigh]

Maybe not weird, but I took a plaster cock down to a wreck and left it in the toilet inside.

Searcaigh And Cock

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Inside Inchcape 10

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[Wibble]

My car keys. Discovered after 15 mins at 35m dangling from chest D-ring. No point in ending the dive as they were bound to be knackered.

Staggeringly, when returned back to the car thinking of the utter grief I'll be getting... Pressed the button and the car unlocked.

+1 for Subaru; keys waterproof for an hour at 35m/120ft.

-1 for the idiot diver clipping keys to rebreather chest D-ring after locking car.

 

[Celt]

A pair of homemade lead soled boots for an underwater charity walk.

 

[mcohen1021]

Magnifying glass. We found juvenile nudis!