Please Help Identify This!

[NEWreckDiver]

I would be in bad taste it were meant as a joke, however it does sound reasonable that it could be on the basis of where it was found.

 

[WreckWriter]

I'm with Vcobra. Tablecloth sounds like a decent guess based on the size and material.

WW

 

[BILLB]

I made a bad joke too. Sorry. What needs to be documented is the exact location this item was found and removed from. This means that the wreck must be suyrveyed in order to determine a possible location of the ship this may have been recovered from. In the mean while, just hang onto this item until more information becomes available about this site. Heck, try Gary Gentile. He may have a clue.

I agree with an eariler post that this item appears to be in excellent shape. I cannot imagine fabric lasting very long in the sea. A table cloth is a good guess. Maybe a cruise ship mechanic threw it overboard after wiping up a mess?

 

[nalfein]

Hmmm.... odd find, kind of funny that the striped sections are asymmetrical..... good luck identifying it.

 

[salty]

I have dove that wreck often and never seen that befor. Where did you find it? Be aware that "artifacts" have ben "placed" on that wreck as a joke in the past. Also a lot of people fish on the Sea wolf so it could have come from a fishing boat. 4x6 sounds like a flag dimension or table cloth, the later would be my guess.

Ron

 

[pwfletcher]

Actually, it was under approximately 6 inches of sand with just the corner sticking out. It took me ten minutes to dig the whole thing out. The edges have a fold almost like they were stretched over a board of some kind.

 

[salty]

Actually, it was under approximately 6 inches of sand with just the corner sticking out. It took me ten minutes to dig the whole thing out. The edges have a fold almost like they were stretched over a board of some kind.

Sand moves around alot on these wrecks. It is most likely a recent addition to the wreck. I rember in the past there was a rain coat and boot bouncing around on the wreck. Did you find this with in the wreck or out side of the hull line? Twords the bow or back in the Stern where every thing is broken up? More important was this from a recent dive and if so hows the vis and water temp.

I noticed you location is the west cost? are you on the island to viset or are you a transplant?

 

[Scubakevdm]

It looks like a cloth, possibly linen.

 

[scubadude010]

It looks like a flag to me. Sounds like it too with the size of it. However, I've never seen that kind of flag before. You could try looking it up at a library or museum. But the way it looks, it could just be a big joke, like salty said above.

 

[Hoya97]

As the stripes are asymmetrical and that there aren’t any grommets, I would discount a national or signal flag. Also the asymmetrical stripes also tend to suggest that it probably isn’t an expensive item (i.e. beach towel, table cloth, et al). Upon first impression, I would say that it’s been ripped from a larger piece of material, but the apparent ‘finished’ edging along the boarders suggest that it is intact.

Also agree with earlier posts that it couldn’t have survived long under water. Was there a lot of growth or crud on it? Did you wash it? Machine or by hand? If you washed it by machine, then I would support the idea that it wasn’t down there for much more than a month. If you didn’t wash it at all, then I would suggest that it had been down there for two weeks or less.

I donno, but the idea that it was an inexpensive towel that was discarded and subsequently got hung up on the wreck probably has a lot of merit. Without going into a chemical analysis of the dies and material, I believe this is as far as you can go with identification.

Sorry I couldn’t be of more help.