Basking Ridge Diver
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Tell the Colorado River to replace the dirt removed from the Grand Canyon - because from what I can tell - it stole a whole lot a dirt and we need to fill it back in...
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Not sure how this qualifies for political correctness.
Interesting thing today we hiked into an area in the Colorado mountains to a place I had been 10 years ago, there was a hidden little trail that we took again that led to an old site that was mined back in the 1880s. Almost everything was intact from the last time I was there and it was a huge thrill to show a new group of people, relatively new to Colorado this bit of history, to see all this stuff from more than 100 years ago. Was cool to see their excitement. Most of it is rusted junk now being out in the harsh elements for 130 years, but it's still recognizable. Had some people 'salvaged' the site for souvenirs for themselves to put in a box and be lost forever the experience today would have been completely different. There is no doubt the site has seen visits in the last 10 years since I've been there, but it sure is nice that in those 10 years it appears everyone who visited the site respected it enough to leave it alone so others could come by and get a unique experience too. I guess eventually all it will take is somebody to post it's location and enough details about it and some selfish arm chair 'salvager' will destroy it forever for everyone else. But so far it sure is nice to know that everyone who's stumbled upon it so far hasn't had the need to put their own self gratification above everyone else
2) Artifact guys - mostly after any brass, bronze, etc. Portholes, bells, navigation and helm equipment, etc. These guys have 2 categories:
a) Clean up the artifacts and display them
b) clean them up and find some creative use to repurpose the artifact as a conversation piece ( I myself am turning a huge 50 lb brass round piece that was likely a giant thru hull fitting on
an 1800s sailing ship into a planter for my wifes garden. It will be absolutely gorgeous when done and an artifact that nice deserves as much.
c) guys looking for an artifact to positively ID the wreck. Many of our wrecks are still not positively identified so there is an art/science to finding something to ID it. ESPECIALLY on the virgin