Things you've found under water

[cozgrove]

:14:
The ShoeKrewe dive club wrangled up 53 shoes and sunglasses to take the Comal River Cleanup 1st place award.
Check out all the winners and competitions at http//www.trashfest.net .
See the pics and more at http//www.shoekrewe.net .
coz

 

[Joe from MN]

On my first night dive in Grand Cayman, I saw a flash in the water off to my left, then I noticed my wedding band was missing! We were only about 8 feet off the bottom and as luck would have it, the beam from my light reflected off the ring lying on the reef. I kept my left hand closed the rest of the dive!

 

[hartmann_christoph]

found a lot of the usual stuff: masks, snorkels, fins, shoes, shirts, some jewelry in resort pools, watches, sunglasses; some knives, compasses and dive lights

one very old beer bottle in a lake in Germany many years ago when snorkeling;

some brass and copper artifacts in different wrecksites on the reefs off the Dominican Republic;

some shards of very nice pre columbian indio pottery in cenotes in the Dominican Republic,

 

[MasterGeorge]

lets see what I can remember

-a lot of lead fishing weights
-those hotel swipe keys
-tip from a spear gun
-couple of watches, one digital one still worked so I let my sister have it
-the occasional golf ball
-a bunch of old computers and office equipment (pics below, probably left in the quarry for divers to mess around with but you never know)

Sunken computer equipment on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Lake Rawlings computers on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

 

[ferretchen]

Hey huys, I found an intact TBD devastator. 12 years of research. I have found Four B-25's, some sadly debris fields. 2 B-24's. 1 A-24. 3 H8k Emily's. 2 H6k Mavis. I SB2c Helldiver, a PBM-3 Mariner, a TBM/F Avenger, A Grumann J2F Duck, a F6f Hellcat, a squardon of Zeros, besides a couple P-39's, one with aircrew. Lived underwater in the Marshall Islands for 26 years. 250 Book research library, know archivists by first names. Looking for a couple research partners in the zen of Shadow Divers. Oh, and a bunch of ships, and I work for a living too. All replies welcome. Matt Holly

Did you write up all of those finds? Sounds fascinating.

 

[Capt Scotty]

one of the more interesting things was a new AB Biller 48 in the sand with the price tag still on it.

 

[cozgrove]

Hello,
We have a dive club in Texas... "ShoeKrewe Divers".
Mostly very experienced divers.
I am a Cartographer and Research Specialist by education and trade.
I am not experienced in Maritime research, however I have worked with records research for over 25 years. Many of our group have rescently expressed interest in a research project similar to those that you have cited.
We are very familiar with Jacobs Hole and the surrounding stories, some firsthand.
Also Shadowdivers.
Check out our temporary web page at http//:www.shoekrewe.net
my e-mails are there... cozgrove@budlight.com
coz

 

[Sharkchic]

We were in Barbados last Dec. my husband found a beer bottle, empty Banks Beer (not his) on their pristine reef.
Once back on the boat he handed it to the deck hand for disposal. The deck hand's response in strong Rasta-ese was " If you want to save the planet....Sell your SUV"
Golly, just tryin to help dude.
Put a for sale sign on the Hummer...NOT!

 

[floridapadiinstructor]

To date, many lbs of lead, a complete lobster package where the lanyard had apparently broke.

2 z lock dive knives that had come out the holders. I still have both and they have never rusted. Great knives if you can keep from dropping them.

And my favorite, a complete nikonis camera outfit with strobe. Laying on the bottom off West Palm Beach.

No pictures on it, so don't know what the last thing the photographer saw was that caused him to leave his camera behind...

 

[cappyjon431]

a spare air in pristine condition
a nikonos V in awful condition
a pair of costa del mar sunglasses in good condition
probably a half dozen dive lights in crappy to good condition
lotsa meg teeth
pottery shards from sinkholes in N. central Florida
three toed horse teeth (they are extinct)
fossilized tiger shark tooth from a freshwater river (N. Fla.)
an alligator skull
a loggerhead skull
some antique bottles off Belize city

My favorite: I jumped in one morning at dawn to tie off to Theo's Wreck (off Freeport/Port Lucaya) and sitting on the bottom, tied to the wreck was a 42' cabin cruiser that couldn't have been down more than a day.