Things you've found under water

[Hemrick]

Rov has been returned to its owner, who lost it 18 months earlier. Cool ending to a good find.

was it hard to find the owners?

 

[sibermike7]

 

[Alastor]

did you find popcorn ?

Probably was harder to keep owners in line ...

 

[sibermike7]

did you find popcorn ?

Probably was harder to keep owners in line ...

sadly no, just waiting for the story of finding the ROV owner!

 

[Unbent]

sadly no, just waiting for the story of finding the ROV owner!

The story of finding the owner...
After cleaning the unit I emailed the company that built it asking for some help, they told me that there was a serial# on the unit but I could find none. So I sent them pictures of the unit, the owner of the company recognized it as one of the first ones built (no #'s ) but a name designation. So they contacted the owner who contacted me.
The story goes that he has multiple units and was on lake George with the floating classroom allowing the kids to fly her. They were attempting to video the Radeux (1770's wreck of a French Indian war ship in 110 ffw) when she was lost. Dew to the length of teather and depth he assumed the teather had snapped instead it had wrapped around a site marker.
The state in all of glory marked the site wrong this spring (the local dive opps noticed this and dove gps coordinates instead of the markers) the one I dropped down on looks like it is in a desert area 100yards from the wreck) so I did not dive the wreck but did find a cool story and a new friend 5 states away.
Mailed his unit back to him and he is attempting to rebuild her and fly it again...
Thanks for reading
Ben

 

[sibermike7]

The story of finding the owner...
After cleaning the unit I emailed the company that built it asking for some help, they told me that there was a serial# on the unit but I could find none. So I sent them pictures of the unit, the owner of the company recognized it as one of the first ones built (no #'s ) but a name designation. So they contacted the owner who contacted me.
The story goes that he has multiple units and was on lake George with the floating classroom allowing the kids to fly her. They were attempting to video the Radeux (1770's wreck of a French Indian war ship in 110 ffw) when she was lost. Dew to the length of teather and depth he assumed the teather had snapped instead it had wrapped around a site marker.
The state in all of glory marked the site wrong this spring (the local dive opps noticed this and dove gps coordinates instead of the markers) the one I dropped down on looks like it is in a desert area 100yards from the wreck) so I did not dive the wreck but did find a cool story and a new friend 5 states away.
Mailed his unit back to him and he is attempting to rebuild her and fly it again...
Thanks for reading
Ben

Awesome!!

 

[Alastor]

wow ... fantastic story !

 

[Chip Elliott]

Great story and happy ending!

 

[BigJoeBob]

I put a text file in the memory chip that has my name and contact info, you might look for something like that.

Every camera and phone I get, I do a powerpoint slide with my contact information and take picture. That's the first image on all devices.

 

[endorfin]

What, if anything, have you found and salvaged on your dives? I'm not talking about scavenging wrecks, I'm just curious to know what items, if any, all of you have stumbled upon while diving.

Here's my list to date :

4 kg of lead weights
2 masks
1 snorkel
1 safety sausage
1 bottle of champagne
1 dive knife with integrated bottle opener
assorted litter

found a really nice mask and snorkel off of Bird Rock, keep it as spare on boat for others.