Doria Artifact!

[Diesel298]

(diesel298 - "DeepSea Detectives" dvds have started arriving at our house, so tell your wife she's not alone!)

well heres a little thought that will hopefuly help you feel a little better..

As deep Tech type diving can be dangerous. The books and TV shows tend to make it a little more over dramatic to sell book, and increase tv rating.....
not that its not dangerous, but the training, gear, and precautions taken now-a-days.
i like to campare diving to driving on the highway.
at a glance to a new driver it can seem like a crazt dangerous place thats ez to get hurt or kiled, but the precautions that are taken make it reasonablly safe

Ray

 

[tkring]

My husband and his family sailed on the Andrea Doria in 1955. He said that it was a magnificant and elegant ship. Everything was first class. He has a "skeet shooting" trophy that his brother won from the ship. This was never shunk but it makes me wonder what it would be worth today.

 

[Damselfish]

Class unspecified
clear glass cereal bowls (3 inches across base, 5-1/2 inches across top) ($100 each)
(each bowl is embossed with “Duralex” and “Made in France”)

you gonna ever eat breakfast out of that?

 

[divewife11]

hey diesel - yup, you're right. considering the first few books we read were about the "U-who" and so many accidents happened while divers were searching for id on that wreck, I got kind of a one-sided opinion of it. We talk about it a lot - it's kind of like what I do; lots of people look at a bucking horse and think it's crazy to try to ride it. ;-) Same thing though - the right preparation, safety equipment, and knowing your own limits go miles toward keeping a person safe.

Just like there are horses that I'm not ready to ride, there are dives he's not ready to make - and since we discuss that stuff, I feel pretty confident that he's careful and doesn't take too many 'risks.'

Still, doesn't mean I like having to explain to family members why we MUST watch John and Richie on DVD *every* time someone comes over to visit!

 

[Rick2]

Absolutely fantastic display, thanks for posting it here to share with us!! Rick2

 

[aue-mike]

Why is that funny?

Because its wrong. If you just look at the number of divers crewing on DORIA trips over the years on different boats (and excluding commercial operations), say from the mid-1980s, and you may likely find perhaps 40 or so divers right there who have dived the wreck multiple times and more than likely recovered artifacts. This is just crew -- not divers who chartered boats to go out to the wreck. That would be 8-10 other divers per trip, though you have many who are repeat divers. For example, on our 2001 trip all 10 of us (customers) recovered artifacts ranging from First Class china, to windows, to lighting fixtures, to medicine bottles, etc. Regardless, way more than 100 divers have DORIA artifacts in their possession.

Further (and perhaps more importantly), IMHO, it perpetuates the whole DORIA artifact fever and that for some reason this dive is the be-all-end-all of wreck dives. That attitude has gotten more than one diver into trouble.

Not knocking the guy buying a DORIA artifact. Its cool and all. But I just think some people blow this wreck all out of proportion.

 

[blacksambellamy]

The dive shop down the block from my house here in NJ has 2 full sets of china from the Doria. He also recovered 1 crate of Rosary beads. Its an awsom site to see these artifacts.

 

[KidK9]

To each his own, but I would rather see people buy the artifacts as a token than push themselves beyond their limits to get on that wreck and then kill themselves. I think it was an extremely passionate gift for the wife to give her husband. She's a good girl.

Because its wrong. If you just look at the number of divers crewing on DORIA trips over the years on different boats (and excluding commercial operations), say from the mid-1980s, and you may likely find perhaps 40 or so divers right there who have dived the wreck multiple times and more than likely recovered artifacts. This is just crew -- not divers who chartered boats to go out to the wreck. That would be 8-10 other divers per trip, though you have many who are repeat divers. For example, on our 2001 trip all 10 of us (customers) recovered artifacts ranging from First Class china, to windows, to lighting fixtures, to medicine bottles, etc. Regardless, way more than 100 divers have DORIA artifacts in their possession.

Further (and perhaps more importantly), IMHO, it perpetuates the whole DORIA artifact fever and that for some reason this dive is the be-all-end-all of wreck dives. That attitude has gotten more than one diver into trouble.

Not knocking the guy buying a DORIA artifact. Its cool and all. But I just think some people blow this wreck all out of proportion.

 

[aue-mike]

To each his own, but I would rather see people buy the artifacts as a token than push themselves beyond their limits to get on that wreck and then kill themselves. I think it was an extremely passionate gift for the wife to give her husband. She's a good girl.

Again, I was not commenting on that. Only the subsequent statement that the artifacts are especially rare and only 100 divers have them...