eandiver:
... and a camouflage womens halter top
Halfway through the dive, I found a camoflage bandana. Hmmm wonder if was from the same person.
Last year, My wife found a college frat "Trojan" shirt She cut the arms off and wears the shirt often now. It was practically brand new.
Scubafool, thx for showing me that I have an addiction. I may not have organised this Knot-sew-megadive, but I will definitely organise more! It was awesome to have a break from the leadership and just cook and have fun. You did a great job, and I hope to see more river cleanups in the future thanks to your hard work.
Speaking of which, Thank you very much to Ginnie Springs,
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www.ginniespringsoutdoors.com ) for the surface support, free comp passes and definitely for the shuttle service back and forth for divers and gear. You guys made it great! There were no actual numbers , but the canoe was completely full including a cinder block and a large truck tire. (Still don't know who brought THAT to the surface.) The canoe barely sat above water. Another three or four bags would have sunk the canoe!
Thank you immensely to ALL the participants, from the bubblewatchers who took care of kids so we could dive, to the divers actually retrieving trash from the bottom. My son tried some experiments of current drift surface support which taught us a lot about things we will NOT be able to do. Thank you for switching to surface support and helping as a spotter for divers, among other things.
Figuring the buoyancy of the canoe at 900 pounds, we took about 750 pounds of garbage OUT of the river. I also noticed a number of divers who brought their bags out WITH them and this did not contribute to that total. I would guess, a trash weight total of near 900 pounds. We had 27 participants on/in/under the river at one time!
WOW!
Maneater says she missed all of you. The kids are feeling better but my ear and throat are killing me. It was awesome to see such a clear and clean river. I only brought up about two bags If the ear squeeze hadn't limited me to 10 feet, It would have been at least three bags. Aside from the SA Storm conditions on Friday and FA cold on Sunday, Saturday was absolutely immaculate!!!! We could not have hoped for better conditions on the Santa Fe!
I did not get any pix this time but I know there were some taken. I missed the Galaxy Dive, but look forward to next year's. As such, I am looking at dates in April. I will let you know more as the time gets closer.
KUDOS... first to Scubafool, (AKA KegDiver)- awesome planning on the cleanup! Thanks for the passes and for the awesome weekend. Thanks also to Andy and Jeano, personally for all your help. Thank you Jenny for the comedy and being the designated RumSnatcher! Yep it's a trust issue M8! To SFL and Mar-D, the sugar bombs are still kicking! Mar-D, I found the drum, 70 bucks on one site. Send me a PM so we can talk about the other drums n stuff.
It's almost 930 at night and I still have a truckload of stuff to unpack. I'll write more later. Great job all!
oh yeh,... Yarr! Or in my case,..... BAM!
