Unusual Things That You've Found

[Swedinsidemount]

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What is that, some kind of stove or cupboard?

 

[herr2720]

A set of Mormon garments.

 

[sagesign]

This was by far my most unusual. We're always "hunting" for treasure in our local lakes. Sometimes the bottom is hard, but most of the time there is a fair amount of silt, sometimes feet of it. On our way back to the boat we basically have our hands buried in it just hoping to grab something. I never even saw this until I pulled it out of the silt to see what I had.

 

[Swedinsidemount]

This was by far my most unusual. We're always "hunting" for treasure in our local lakes. Sometimes the bottom is hard, but most of the time there is a fair amount of silt, sometimes feet of it. On our way back to the boat we basically have our hands buried in it just hoping to grab something. I never even saw this until I pulled it out of the silt to see what I had. View attachment 627116 View attachment 627117

Wow i truly wonder how that got there, how deep do you think it was located? <TG>

 

[sagesign]

Wow i truly wonder how that got there, how deep do you think it was located? <TG>

Would really like to know myself! Probably 20'-25' deep and maybe 200'-250' from shore and million dollar homes.

 

[CT-Rich]

He might have been dropped by a Roc flying him back to it’s nest to feed it’s chicks. If it is an artificial lake, it might predate the dam. Last, dead things can float for quite a while...

In any case, a pretty cool dive trophy...

 

[sagesign]

He might have been dropped by a Roc flying him back to it’s nest to feed it’s chicks. If it is an artificial lake, it might predate the dam. Last, dead things can float for quite a while...

In any case, a pretty cool dive trophy...

Had no idea what a Roc was, learned something new tonight! The lake is a natural lake.

 

[chillyinCanada]

A set of Mormon garments.

What comprises a set of Mormon garments?

 

[OTF]

The lobster was alive, I removed the rubber bands and freed him, the microwave was recently drooped there, it was perfectly clean.

It was a regular microwave, I just opened the door, never saw a locking mechanism on a microwave....

I assume it fell from a boat that was there for lobsters. Anyone who has AOW from NJ knows the site, there are three wrecks in a triangle, wrecks are lame, but plenty of lobsters, popular spot by NJ standards. Microwave was in the sand right side up, found it on my way from one wreck to another.

Being from NJ, I would not be surprised that someone put it there knowing it would be found, it was pretty funny, but also perfectly placed. I would have sent it up but didn't have a lift bag cause I was tagging along with a AOW class.

Could have been placed there as a (cruel) joke, but I imagine it more likely fell off the gunwale when someone was trying to microwave a freshly caught lobster on deck. Microwaving them alive is also cruel but people do it.

 

[herr2720]

What comprises a set of Mormon garments?

Per the internet: Ritual, symbolic underwear that Mormons accept and wear as part of ‘going thru the temple’ and receiving their “endowment” and then wear for their lifetimes as a perpetual reminder of sacred covenants they make to their church and their god in the temple ritual.

Basically for men it's a set of white boxers that go past the knees and a white Tshirt with symbols over the nipples, navel and knee, for women it looks like a 1800s bathing suit also with the symbols. Both sets were just laid out in the silt at the bottom of the lake. I put them on the sunken lake mannequin the local divers like to dress up. Over the years it's worn a speedo, both sets of garments, a wedding dress, and finally a suit with a burlap bag tied over it's head until someone finally removed it.