What is the oddest thing you've found on the bottom of the ocean?

[thomjinx]

Great thread! This should be a permanent, ongoing thread!

Nothing to match the ones posted so far, just these 3 johnny clams on the King Cruiser wreck near Phuket.

Thomjinx

I will post a pic if I can figure out how....

 

[Scuba Brad]

Well we need more comments to keep it up there on top!! Nice comment on Buoyancy control...........no leaning to the left or right even if have to!!

Happy Diving

 

[The Chairman]

He who Glows in Dark Water
aka The Kraken!

OK, OK, so I found him on the bottom of a lake!​

 

[OceanObsessed]

My buddies and I were free diving some coral heads on the Great Bahama Bank between Bimini and the wreck of the Sapona and we came across a "Volkswagon Thing". It was out in the middle of nowhere, miles from land. We figured it must have fallen off a barge.

In the early 80's I used to free dive the 2nd reef off Lauderdale by the Sea. We used to comb the reef where the Copenhagen shipwreck is located. We had the reef & wreck memorized pretty well because we would go there so much. A few months ago I returned to the wreck for some macro photography. It was the first time that I had returned to the wreck since the 80's. I stumbled upon a HUGE anchor that looks like a galleon anchor. Now there is nothing really strange about this except I can tell you that this anchor was not there back in the early 80's. It is not every day that an anchor this size just magically appears All I can figure is that Broward county must have placed it there to make the wreck more interesting. You can see a picture of it in my profile.

 

[Kwbyron]

awww...no more... My list is rather dull, found a golf ball I tried to throw at my dive buddy, didn't go as well as I hoped. I was freediving after I got my o/w in Lake Travis at Lakeway city park, found a bike...probably 15-20'

 

[venturediver]

Probably the worst thing we've found was an oldsmobile with a body in the trunk. Turned out the person in the trunk had been missing from Gerogia for like 3 months.

 

[SteveAD]

an ultralight airplane. ok it had just ditched and the dive mission was to recover it, so maybe it wasn't a "find", but mission accomplished

 

[offroaddiver]

I was snorkeling and had to remove a fiddler crab that was about a cm in size from my fins.

 

[EliotD]

I found an unopened bottle of captain morgan once in the quarry at about 40 feet....left it with the divemaster, dont know if he drank it

 

[diveprof]

How about the most unsual thing that I witnessed being found? On a dive in the Savannah River, my female dive buddy found a bag on the bottom. Upon picking it up the bag fell apart revealing a rather substantial collection of "adult toys" (read assorted replicas of a part of the male anatomy). Observing her reaction was priceless. I can personally attest that the color red (read facial flushing) does not disappear in the water column at depth .
PS: she elected not to bring the recovered items to the surface. Wonder what the next diver will think?