Things you've found under water
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Curt Bowen
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fire_diver
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Geez Curt, why you gotta be showin' off like that?!
I'm just jealous that I've never found anything that cool, or dove the places you dive. Maybe if I hit the lottery.
FD
I'm just jealous that I've never found anything that cool, or dove the places you dive. Maybe if I hit the lottery.
FD
konasdad
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This probably happens quite often. Last week while checking out some gear in a local bay I was free diving in shallow water. The viz was about 2 feet and while looking at the bottom I saw a small piece of waterlogged wood scooting along the bottom. This seemed a bit strange to me since I've never seen wood swim! I grabbed it and surfaced. When I got to the surface I found out that it was tangled up in some monofilament fishing line. When I started to gather it up I found it was attached to something. One of my friends joked, "waduh ya have, a fish on the other end?". As I pulled on it a bit I replied "yes, as a matter of fact!". Not knowing exactly what was on the other end, I pulled in a 14" corbina.
Didn't feel like having fish that day so I just cut the line as close as I could (swallowed the hook) and watched it swim off. Maybe it will return the favor someday!
-Mark-
Didn't feel like having fish that day so I just cut the line as close as I could (swallowed the hook) and watched it swim off. Maybe it will return the favor someday!
-Mark-
At 100ft the other day while diving a fresh water lake I found a 4 pack of unopened 31 year old 7-Up. The cans were still in the plastic thingy and were in almost perfect condition. I am still debating whether or not to crack one open. hehe.
-Kstnbike
-Kstnbike
ohmdiver
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Man you have got to put that on E-bay...
I've been hoping to find my "ultimate dive buddy" underwater, but so far she's escaped detection there... or on surface intervals.
Dash
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I found my first ever "dive loot" Saturday at Catalina!
Descended out at the third buoy intending to navigate to the SueJac, I was hovering about 5 feet off the bottom waiting on my buddy to get settled and there below me I spotted a bright color. I moved a bit closer and there was nice new dive slate, pencil still sharp...
The elastic keeping the pencil attached was bright orange, very noticeable even at that depth ~75 ft.
Descended out at the third buoy intending to navigate to the SueJac, I was hovering about 5 feet off the bottom waiting on my buddy to get settled and there below me I spotted a bright color. I moved a bit closer and there was nice new dive slate, pencil still sharp...
The elastic keeping the pencil attached was bright orange, very noticeable even at that depth ~75 ft.
BeachJunkie
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During the surface interval on my checkout dives this weekend I was snorkeling around in about 5 feet of water when somethin shiny caught my eye. I went down and found a brand new dive knife. Seeing how this was a very high traffic area and the knife had NO silt on it, I figured it had been dropped recently. As I was about to go back in for my second dive I was asking divers who were comming out of the water if they had a knife. One looked at me and said "yea, I just got mine... its right... son of a ... its gone" I asked what brand it was and what it looked like and sure enough, it was his. Didn't help me any, but I felt good being able to return his knife to him.
On the rest of the dive all I found was old beer cans and an old "no trespassing" sign. Hoping to have more luck with next weekends treasure hunt.
On the rest of the dive all I found was old beer cans and an old "no trespassing" sign. Hoping to have more luck with next weekends treasure hunt.
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