searching for dollars!!

[michaelo]

Just looking for advice on finding some lost money.
someone I know lost several bills out of his pocket near a dock in an ohio lake.
It is not too deep, and not much traffic, but the vis is pretty bad.

Has anyone had any luck in finding loose bills at the bottom of a lake? I plan on using a string and circular search pattern from dock post. I got a big light and just plan on going slow and searching with my bare hands (hopefully not too many fish hooks etc).

any other ideas? There are probably 40 bills in a wad with NO clip or rubber band!!

thanks,

 

[cummings66]

Paper floats easily and can be far from where it was lost, so make the search area large. Don't silt the area up and go slow. The chance for success isn't great but you might get lucky.

I haven't found money, but I have found paper. I've got a buddy who found money however and it was more luck than anything else.

 

[phunk]

There are probably 40 bills in a wad with NO clip or rubber band!!

Damn, what size bills?

I don't think it's very likely that they reached the bottom still in one wad, they are most likely widely scattered if there is even the smallest current.

 

[Harshal]

All I have ever found is beer bottles...........lol

 

[Guba]

A buddy and I once searched for a fellow's lost dental works (four teeth in a bridge) that had been lost a couple of weeks earlier at the end of a dock (came out when he did a high cannonball into the water).
We found them, and in two foot vis, no less! So take hope.

However, we had an advantage. The teeth went more or less straight down. Your bills will have seperated and scattered, most likely, and that's going to complicate things a lot. However, I have found dollar bills on the bottom in a river frequented by tubers and rafters. They were clinging to the bottom in areas that were out of the current, so who knows? Maybe you'll get lucky. Let us know how the search goes.

 

[scratchmyback]

Damn, and here I thought this was another thread about looking for money to buy scuba gear

Good luck and I hope you find some of them anyway!

 

[spectrum]

Bias some of your weight up high so you are foot light. It will make silt avoidance a lot eassier. I have done some fresh water dives working with invasive plants and being foot light was a real advantage.

I would make the first pass non contact. As soon as you start pawing around silt will kick up and your odds of recognition will fall. As delicate as a silt bed is it is suprising what can remain on top after gently wafting down through the water column.

Pete

 

[Lead_carrier]

Stay off the bottom. The money won't sink in to the silt. If you can't see it chances are you won't find it.

 

[Wayward Son]

Dollar bills can often be found tucked into G strings.

 

[MattJ]

Dollar bills can often be found tucked into G strings.

That may be true, but it's generally frowned upon to swim a search pattern, feeling around for more.

Or so I'm told...