Things you've found under water

[phuonguyen]

I found a 10 dollar note today.

However, I'm not gonna use it, but instead add it to the growing pile of 'Stuff found whilst diving" collection!

 

[Monkeyman806]

I have found tons of common things like fishing lures, mega amounts of trash , car parts, etc etc etc

Never anything of real value that I was able to get back topside myself.

However, the two finds I tell people about the most are:

1.) A bikini top :shocked2: stuck in the sand at about 60 feet (sadly no lady to go with it) and the next is really sad but:

2.) A dog!!! I was helping my Uncle clean the bottom of his boat in Florida when I turned around and saw something under the dock... upon closer inspection it was in fact a dog. No tags or anything but to this day I can't believe I found it... wish I hadn't!

 

[shortdivemedic]

While doing a boat dive in the Red Sea I found a brand new snorkel. I was thrilled since I left mine at home,topside was telling my girlfriend who explained to me that she just lost it while snorkeling above me . No luck at all

Cheers
Michael

 

[Jax]

Cozumel, Palancar Bricks, Nov 3rd, 2011.

 

[JKPAO]

How in the -h- did that get there?
See you topside! John

 

[Jax]

How in the -h- did that get there?
See you topside! John

Funny, I was asking that question, myself . . . as were the rest of the dive group, because they came over to see what I was taking pictures of.

 

[JKPAO]

Pretty unique picture! Thanks for sharing.
See you topside! John

 

[fjpatrum]

Jax, is that a scorpion?! One of you must have brought it from home in a dive bag or something...

 

[black_sea]

I make it a point to collect any and all garbage I can when diving. Anything heavier than 4kg I put in a bag and lift up with a lift bag. This I think is the most important finds I can make as a diver. Also clean up the beach and leave with more garbage than I came with.

Other than that - recovered some pretty interesting things through my diving career, but I will skip over the "professional finds", some of those are better left for a more serious thread. As for recreational finds:

Several bicycles in working condition.
Weights - about 200 kg overall, including belts with weights
fishing lures, some of those more than 50 years old, obviously hand made!
a set of oil paints (later found out some guy has this "gig" painting oils under water, must have been one of those leaving his "art" behind)
knives - fishing and diving
flashlight
hundreds of golf balls, in the strangest places
an inflatable sex doll, deflated
a rolex watch (still worked, sold it to fix my buddys boat motor)
A purse with a switchblade in it (my favorite)

 

[AfterDark]

There's a site I've been going to since the 70's and I still find 40MM anti-aircraft shell casing there. I'll post a pic of the last one I found when I get home. The date stamped on the bottom is 1942 I think.

Well it's been a long time since I posted the above and said I'd post a picture. Since then I found another casingin my cellar that I recovered back in the 70's. I polished them both. The complete casing was a dummy round hence the holes drilled in the walls of the case.