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    Wooden Shipwreck

    After almost two years off from river diving, I dusted off my gear and did a river dive today. Didn't find any artifacts, but did come a across a half buried wooden shipwreck. Seems like the high water and heavy current from this winter and spring partially unburied it. I had seen some...
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    Re-found Rare Coke Bottle

    Several years ago I found this rare Coke bottle. It's from a bottler that didn't last long and made very few Cokes so it has a fair amount of value to it. I found it in a river in the SE. I found someone interested in buying the bottle, and when I went to find it was nowhere to be found...
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    New 6.92" Megalodon Tooth

    That's about the nicest Meg tooth I've ever seen. Got this 5 1/2er last year, but the enamal wasn't great on the one side.
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    Collecting antique bottles

    This is my Buccheit Bottling Company brown Coca Cola bottle. Extremely rare. One has sold on Ebay for $800, but it was in much better shape than mine. The Tennessee River Gods let me have this one.
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    Diver dies in 40 Fathom Grotto - Feb 2008

    I just learned of this incident yesterday from one of the instructors at the LDS where Becky's daughter works. I am physically ill from hearing this news. I've only dived with this wonderful woman once, but I did take the CPR/first aid class with her and would routinely see her at the shop...
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    Found ship anchor

    Photo?
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    Rare Antique Coke Bottle

    I think "B"uccheit. I'm pretty sure it contained soda.
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    Rare Antique Coke Bottle

    You guys won't beleive it, I found another one yesterday. This one is not a Coke however, so hard to tell what it's value is. It's a clear bottle, exactly the same shape and slug plate as the brown one picuted above. Only instead of the Coca Cola script, there's just a "B" on the shoulder.
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    Little Torch Lobster and Spearfishing Recommendations

    I'm going to be spending a week on Little Torch Key over Christmas, and was planning to do some lobtstering and spearfishing. Would anyone be gracious enough to make some recommendations? I realize no one is going to give up their honey holes, but some decent areas would be appreciated. I...
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    Found ships bell

    Fabulous find! Without giving the secret location (unless you want to:D) can you give us some location and circumstance details?
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    Rare Antique Coke Bottle

    Approximate dates would be between 1890 and 1915. Prior to that, the Cokes were Hutchinson style, and after that they were the classic hobbleskirt shape.
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    Rare Antique Coke Bottle

    I've posted finding this before, but finally got a photo. A similar bottle auctioned on Ebay for $799! It may be tough to read from the photo, but the front slug plate reads "Buccheit Bottling Wks, Registered, New Decatur Ala" I plan to sell, wish me luck on the auction!
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    USN v USS New York divers

    Agreed, they are just keeping divers away from the surface ship, they couldn't care less about the USS New York. Hell, the dynamited the hell out of it to clear the channel back during the base days. I do miss diving that ship though, such rich history, it was Admiral Sampsons flag ship...
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    6 V battery powered lights

    There are several 6 V handheld flashlights that use those big, square 6 V batteries ( I think technicaly they are called springtop lantern batteries), but I've never seen one for diving. Is there such a thing? Those batteries are cheap and huge, they seem like they would be perfect for this...
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    Cooper River Dive Easter Weekend

    Will do!
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    Cooper River Dive Easter Weekend

    We need someone for both days to share in boat costs as we are going to charter it for both days. Ditch the church, wife and kids and come diving (Caution: each of these options may have severe reprecussions, proceed at your own risk)!
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    Cooper River Dive Easter Weekend

    It would be both days, Saturday and Sunday. I'm not sure of the name of the town that we all meet in , but it's on I-26 about 30 minutes from Charleston. Our lodging for Friday night and Saturday night is expected to be about $110.00 per person total. I don't have the rates on the charter at...
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    Cooper River Dive Easter Weekend

    I'm in the prcocess of chartering Off the Wall to dive the Cooper River Easter weekend, and we have a couple (2 - 3) of open positions. Instead of searching the yard for Easter Eggs, come and join us searching the river bottom for gigantic fossil shark teeth. You can paint them pretty colors...
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    Volunteer State Meet and Greet!

    I'm a definite maybe for the weekend of the 21st. :popcorn:
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    Cooper River Trip Sunday, 11 March

    I think I'm in, but I need to call them and see if I can get on the boat and dive on Saturday. I can't justify a 7 hour drive for just one day of diving. As far as previous questions about a screwdriver, where I normally dive the Cooper, the current is horrendous and we dive the tail end of...
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