Things you've found under water

[Texasdivechick]

Last weekend I participated in Trashfest, an annual clean up of the Comal River in New Braunfels, Texas. I found lots of railroad spikes, a ten foot long board with rusted nails, cinder block, various coins, and a weight pouch. After the dives we have to turn all of our loot over to get weighed and the team with the most trash wins. My team didn't win, but we did help 48 other teams clean the river bed. One team found an ornate lamp post (won most unusual) and someone else found a Coke bottle with a crawfish trapped inside, still alive. The bottle was cracked open and the crawfish was returned much happier to the river. There were over 300 pairs of sunglasses found, lots of shoes, and even an old wooden toy boat. We all had a great time. Can't wait to do it again next year.

 

[bullfroger]

an 89 chevy caviler with 6000 miles on it, a smowmobile, lots of fishing rods cans of soda and beer. (unopened cans always land sitting upright) tons of anchors, tools , a flare gun, dive knife,several masks one dacor turbo fin with the initials JAR, landing net, tackle box, props. The trick is to use beeer can indexing. the more beer cans there are, the more likley the is somthing worthwhile will be there. Drunk people drop t hings.

 

[Batesmotel]

Mostly junk, but my list as follows...

Broken Rubber Made Chair
Some sort of pump with pvc pipe comming all off of it
Beer Bottles
Beer Cans
Mask and Snorkle
Several Snorkles " Mostly when divers jumping from a dive boat I have found several drifting to the bottom"
Lead weight
Fishing Sinkers
Fishing hook
A Nickle " man I got all excited until I saw it was a stupid nickle Bah!"
Old broken wooden lobster traps.

Thats about all I can think of off hand.

 

[gustele]

The strangest thing I ever found when diving was this sailboat. I was diving in Curacao (I live there) and I saw something white shimmering in the depth. As I approached it I couldn't believe my eyes. It was a sailboat standing upright on the sand at a depth of about 43 meters. Because of the current it looks as if she was still sailing in the wind.
For a picture and the story check my website at Welcome to the Curacao Diving Paradise - Curacao Diving Paradise. A picture of the sailboat is halfway the homepage.
After the dive I checked with the local dive operator and it appeared the boat sank during the races a week before.
Two weeks later I went back to check for the boat, but it was gone already.

Luckily I have always my camera with me, otherwise nobody would have believed me.

John

Welcome to the Curacao Diving Paradise - Curacao Diving Paradise

 

[Blind]

Hmm lets see, ive found

Binoculars (new)
Binoculars (WWIIish)
Wine glass
Mask
Crayfish
Wallet (well was snorkeling really but it had lots of money in it)
A microwave
Lots of diapers (i hate all you people on boats who chuck stuff overboard!!)
A nice anchor (no, it wasnt attached to a boat at the time)
Um and lots of WWII stuff in wrecks tho i didnt take any

edit
gustele, thats one of the most random pics ive seen, nice spotting!!

 

[cruiser]

Hmm lets see, ive found

Lots of diapers (i hate all you people on boats who chuck stuff overboard!!)

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW !!!!

 

[cruiser]

Yesterday at CSSP I found a snorkel and one of those coil-lanyard clip things. Now they're at the lost and found.

 

[Dantheengineer]

I found a Olypus mju 720 camera. at 35'. Didn't think it'd work so stuck it ina pocket. carried on down to about 85' and completed the dive. 45 mins later got back to the boat and switched it on. Worked just fine!
Totally impressed, i went and bought one!
Dunno if the lads that'd been out snorkelling the previous day ever got it back. Bet they were gutted to loose all their holiday snaps! Imagine trying to free dive 35' to get it back?
Must have been only just out of reach. Like i say Gutted!

 

[bluewaterdiva]

Hmmm..... lets see: a compass, light socket, mood ring, complete piece of floor tile-marble (very nice) electrical wall socket, huge anchor, a pink ballet slipper(????),a large piece of plastic wrap, beer cans, and the strangest: a hawaiian floral shirt - on a very large fan coral. From a distance, it looked like a person sitting on the bottom of the sea with no head! Managed to unbotton it and remove it with no damage to the coral. Brought every thing back to shore except the anchor and the floor tile. The only thing I kept was the compass. Never found any money-yet. :>)

 

[2TH DIVR]

A $20 bill stuck on the spines of a sea urchin while shark tooth diving Venice.
It had been onthere for a while, had a healthy coating of algae.