Lost Gear in St.Lawrence- Wine & Snivel

[barb]

I lost my Halcyon 80lb lift bag in the river this past week and I just can't seem to let it go ..... so I thought maybe if I talk about it a little more (read: wine and snivel) I can move on.

This gave me the idea for a new thread .... So what gear have you sacrificed to the great St.Lawrence river?

I've also found some interesting stuff so maybe it all equals out in the end.

Barb
:(

PS: Dan at DiveTech offered his deepest condolences on my loss .... and offered to sell me a new one - he's just so thoughtful sometimes !!!

[Doppler]

Shame Barb... where did you lose it and was it inflated or deflated?

:D

[diverlady]

barb once bubbled...

This gave me the idea for a new thread .... So what gear have you sacrificed to the great St.Lawrence river?



I lost a PINK ankle weight diving on the Gaskin. Bummer! However, I did locate an integrated weight pouch on the Daryaw but I couldn't bring it up so I left it in an-easy-to-find-location and told the owner so a rescue operation was undertaken. I assume he got it back alright.

Diverlady

[barb]

I deflated the bag but obviously there was still some trapped air and when I removed it from the load it was carrying, it slipped from my hand and was swept away in the current.
For a split second I considered going after it... but I was in 75' of water and already close/in deco so I watched it drift up and away.
Dan was teasing me about it.... said a couple of guys came in the shop and offered to sell him a used bag for $75.00 (one they had just found). Oh, he's nasty sometimes.
I will let it go and hope it finds a good new home.
Thanks for your condolences also.
Barb:(

[DivingGal]

Last reported floating down towards Cornwall.....

But the new one matches mine now, so we're really looking like dive buddies now!

BTW -- thanks for taking me out to play with my new equipment. And for not laughing at my not so graceful descent!

[barb]

... on that same dive I found a light on the way back.
So if anyone has lost a light in that area and can describe it to me, I'll happily return it if it's a match.

I've also found an integrated weight belt - I think it was from a Mares BC. I retrieved it (with said lift bag - gee, I'll miss it) and will also return it to the rightful owner if they can I.D. it.

Barb
:)

[DeepScuba]

Was the plastic "belt clip", just inside the bag yellow/green in colour? A Mares Velcro style.

NO it's not mine..........but I MIGHT know who's it is :D

My only (to date) sacrifice to the dive Gods..........1 fin.

Sooner or later, everyone has to ante-in.

[Tom R]

I lost a fin and a local TDI instructor found it and kept it even with my name clearly marked on it. So I wouldn't bank on getting it back. This year we have found a lot of stuff and almost every bit of it returned to it owners including a very nice watch.

Tom

[procyon]

Barb,

Do you mean a weight pouch out of a Mares BC? It didn't have 9 lbs of soft weight inside did it? ;)

That is my only sacrifice to date, lost it on the Gaskin. :out:

[canuckdiver]

the only equipment sacrafice I have had to date wasn't in the st. lawrence

I managed to hook my knife on the ladder of the boat when we were at the Arabia last weekend, pulled it out of it's sheath ;-0

[Doppler]

Tom R once bubbled...
I lost a fin and a local TDI instructor found it and kept it even with my name clearly marked on it. So I wouldn't bank on getting it back. This year we have found a lot of stuff and almost every bit of it returned to it owners including a very nice watch.

Tom

Hope you know it wasn't me who found and kept your fin Tom... don't know who it was but I can make a guess...

I lost a fin myself drifting into the Daryaw earlier in the year but managed to back track a little and pick it up.

Steve

[barb]

.... for returning found gear to the rightful owners.
If I ever meet you, you will get a nice big hand shake from me.
If it was my gear - you'd get even more..... NO, don't go there... I mean a beer or something.

The weight integrated (belt) I found was near the Gaskin but it did'nt have soft weights. If you think you know who's it is please pm me any questions. I'll happily give it back.

Barb

[sirius4procyon]

I can vouch for the loss by Procyon. I was there the same 'bloody' day!


Sirius

[DeepScuba]

Well Tom..........


You know that's RULE # 1 of the TDI Instructors course.......Thou shalt not return..............

It's just how us non GUE guys do it :drown:

[artw]

The Daryaw has become my new favorite dive shop. We always drift off the back of the wreck and blue water, right over where the diveboats park. So far we've found 1 light, and a weight belt with soft weight pouches,with a nice brand new hand light clipped off to it. (who would clip off a light to their weight belt??!) and a barbeque. We didn't bring the barbeque up.
I found a snorkel on Lock 21 once
and countless lead weights in various locations
I can honestly say I haven't lost anything of mine yet.

[WreckMan]

I haven't lost anything yet either. Knock on timbers at a 80ft!!!:D

[boney]

My compass - although not in the St. Lawrence but in Lake Simcoe... I did however find a snorkel that same day and returned it to the DM who was doing some OW cert dives that day... Apparently he had the snorkel for 8 years and was talking about it to his students when that dive his mask strap broke and he lost his snorkel...

[maximdim]

I have lost my weight integrated pocket with 10lb of weight two weeks ago while diving Comet.
I realized I lost it only half way through the dive, but it probably dropped when I was entering, - not a priblem on 75 feet, just a little bit extra boyant on ascend from 40 feet or so. As a positive result now I'm diving with just 16 pounds instead of 20 and it feel great :-)

[Tom R]

Your pocket minus the lead may have been recovered, some one gave me a pocket they found this weekend. No Lead though.

Tom

[maximdim]

Wow Tom, that's excellent. It's for Scherwood Freedom BCD (should say on it 'This side up, max 10 lb' in white letters).
I'll pick it up next time I'll there then. Thanks a lot, you're the best! :-))

PS I already got new lead (2x8 lb) from your shop :-)

[cat]

one Timex Ironman watch (nearly new, dammit) at the Rothesay during the OFWF get-together in July. Most likely lost in the shallows near the stairs. Oh well. I've lost 2 pairs of sidecutters in Superior, too but they're cheap. I've been lucky so far and caught up to my fins when they come loose.
I nearly lost my fins in June when someone picked them off the dock by mistake after a Zode trip. I'm not sure how they mistook my itty-bity M jets (with my name on the bottoms!) for their XL ones - maybe they were still narced :rolleyes:
I got my fins back by being stubborn and insisting that everyone unpack their gear to check for inadvertent souveniers :mean:

[Coyote]

So you never did find it? I remember you cursing up a blue streak.

BTW: I met someone from your neck of the woods who thinks he might know you, he's an SSI instructor named Graham.

Coyote

[FreeFloat]

So far, only one bullet weight. Them thangs roll fast!! Wasn't even me that lost it - I took it off my weight belt on purpose, and THOUGHT it was stowed away all neat as you please in my gear bag.......until my buddy inadvertently picked up my gear bag upside down. He didn't think too long about the slight 'sploosh' noise as he was leaving the dock............

[D M I]

Hello

I've never lost a thing while diving, I make sure my gear is properly placed in positions that do not allow for easy loosing. Lift bags on the other hand require divers with strong arms and plenty of skill, once inflated the waves and wind can drag her and you down river. I must also admit, that I have in my collection of found diving junk 3 watches, 13 computers, 6 dive flags, 31 mask with snorkels, about 200 pound in weight belts, 7 flippers, 2 OMS bottom timers, one Uwatec digital compass. I'm going to have my own scuba garage sale in Nov.

Happy diving

D M I

[Groundhog246]

So far I've dropped a trim weight last year, but my buddy saw it fall and retrieved it. And I lost a dive flag and float. We were diving the JC Morrison late last year. Carried the flag out the rope to the wreck and then set it down while we explored so it wouldn't snag. A strong wind came up while we were under and when we came back to the rope no sign of the flag. I first suspected (my apologies :) ) some boater had grabbed it and we continued back to shore. When we surfaced, the flag was way out in the lake and moving East fast. I've been much more careful since replacing it. I have more weight on the line and either clip it to the guide rope if there is one or try to place it in rocks (or just keep towing it). Saw a small folding "grapple" type anchor for dinghies the other day and thought I might try that.

[scuba_junkie]

My dive buddy and I had just suited up to do a shore dive north of Port Huron... we had borrowed his brothers dive float (one of those nice ones with a big inner tube and canvas covers with handles, and a milk crate in the center)... anyways, we had stuck both pairs of fins in the center and started wading out into the water. When we got waist deep, my octo started to free-flow because I forgot to put in the scumball... well, I had not yet clipped the float to my BC and let go of it just for a second or two to get my octo properly situated... needless to say, since there was a strong offshore wind blowing that day, the float had put about 20 feet of space between it and me in that couple seconds... my dive buddy didnt even have time to react either. I tried to swim for it, but all the dive gear just slowed me down, so I took off my BC and handed it to my dive buddy and started to swim... it was just going too fast by then (if I had fins on I could have caught it... oooh the irony).

So all we could do was watch as both sets of fins and a dive float that wasnt ours drifted towards Canada... we figured it would hit land somewhere south of Grand Bend. Oh well... that was an expensive lesson to learn.... lol :D

[DeepScuba]

Don't worry, it was tracked by the Dept of National Robbery, and all Duties, excise taxes, and all GST and PST were paid by the "finder".

The "free find", ended up costing him $685.43

[diverdeb001]

Hi ms barbie!! I lost my dark purple Cressi fin earlier this year while on the Muskie. I think it's keeping company with Tom's Oakley's. I'm still hoping I may find it someday. I tried to sell the other one at the swap at Scuba in the Park and a guy said his girl friend lost one just the same and he was going to check the size. He didn't come back so I will just keep it for now. I also lost my goodie bag near Smith Island just as I was getting back in the boat. It had a cute little milk bottle and a couple of other bottles in it. Oh well,......Another reason to go for a dive!!!

[Fly N Dive]

havent lost anything yet, but i have found a compas, one of those little one that fit inside a boot. picked it up from inbetween 2 sponges right in front of my buddies face.:D

[scuba-punk]

Almost lost a fin to the Muskie... Jumped in after it and wouldn't ya' know, I actually got it :)

I did sacrifice a Halcyon Pathfinder reel to a wreck in North Carolina - did that ever hurt... And then there was the one Pro-Plug that I lost at the quarry. Someone found it, but his wife threw it away. *SIGH*

I've only been diving for 7 years, so I'm sure that I have got plenty of stuff to loose in the years to come... As long as I bring myself back from each dive in as close to one piece as I can manage, I guess that should be good enough.

-Frank

[diverdeb001]

oh yea, I just remembered that last year I lost my compas near the Lily by the west end of the island. My console must have been bumping the rocks as we pulled ourselves against the current.

[divedude]

D M I once bubbled...
Hello

I've never lost a thing while diving, I make sure my gear is properly placed in positions that do not allow for easy loosing. Lift bags on the other hand require divers with strong arms and plenty of skill, once inflated the waves and wind can drag her and you down river. I must also admit, that I have in my collection of found diving junk 3 watches, 13 computers, 6 dive flags, 31 mask with snorkels, about 200 pound in weight belts, 7 flippers, 2 OMS bottom timers, one Uwatec digital compass. I'm going to have my own scuba garage sale in Nov.

Happy diving

D M I

You must be one in a billon....
I always said show me a diver that has never lost any thing and I'll show you a BS'er or a newbie with only a couple of dives.