Coolest/Most Unique "Finds" While Diving?

[joshua.d.vise]

Our dive resort had sunk a boat a few weeks prior, but it hadn't been visited by any divers, and though its location was known, being a part of the first group to find its exact spot was really exciting.

 

[joshua.d.vise]

I should add, we weren't taken to that dive site where the boat was sunk. We were at a nearby site and swam in the direction of the wreck until we found it.

 

[Sea_Jay]

I've gone to a local lake clean-up dives a couple of times, the tradition is to vote for the "find of the day" after it's all done. The weirdest thing (not found by me) was the cast iron tridenty-stand kind of thing that nobody could figure out FTW it was. The best guess was it could have been something for a fireplace, like maybe a poker stand of sorts. Looks like the photo is not on the shop's website anymore (that dive was pre-covid).

For those dives, the briefing includes "please don't find guns nor bags of white powder: if you do, we'll all be here until midnight writing witness statements, affidavits, and having all sorts of police-related fun".

Interesting you said that; the LDS that I work for hosts annual fishing pier clean ups at all of the local beaches. The last one we held (Pompano Beach FL) involved the local sheriff's department. While I didn't find it myself, another diver located a gun. I have a picture of it somewhere, I'll dig it up and post here. The police were highly interested in how it got there & took it as potential evidence!

I also do some metal detecting on the beach in my free time. I found a vial of white powder last week, looked like fentanyl. Was happy to get it off of the beach and away from all of the kids.

 

[Sea_Jay]

Interesting you said that; the LDS that I work for hosts annual fishing pier clean ups at all of the local beaches. The last one we held (Pompano Beach FL) involved the local sheriff's department. While I didn't find it myself, another diver located a gun. I have a picture of it somewhere, I'll dig it up and post here. The police were highly interested in how it got there & took it as potential evidence!

I also do some metal detecting on the beach in my free time. I found a vial of white powder last week, looked like fentanyl. Was happy to get it off of the beach and away from all of the kids.

 

[Still Kicking]

A .50 caliber BMG shell casing off the coast of Malibu.

Stamp on the base shows it manufactured in St. Louis in 1943.

 

[Eric802]

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Hard to tell but it looks like a Hi-Point. If so, a very cheap gun that very well may have been used in a crime.

 

[Still Kicking]

Hard to tell but it looks like a Hi-Point. If so, a very cheap gun that very well may have been used in a crime.

Pretty safe to say ANY gun that ends up under a pier was most likely used in a crime.

Unless the previous owner was REALLY afraid of sharks lol

 

[Sea_Jay]

Hard to tell but it looks like a Hi-Point. If so, a very cheap gun that very well may have been used in a crime.

Good eye, I was able to inspect it before the police got their paws on it. I had the same inclination and it was indeed a Hi-Point. Street corner special.

That pier also has a small, round hole at the end of it for sightseeing. The gun was found directly underneath. One would think "maybe I should throw this as far as I can" but nope, stupid is as stupid does.

 

[dmaziuk]

As I understand it from CSI: Special Victims, a couple of days in the water is enough to degrade the fingerprints & DNA traces; after that: who cares.

 

[rhwestfall]

That pier also has a small, round hole at the end of it for sightseeing. The gun was found directly underneath. One would think "maybe I should throw this as far as I can" but nope, stupid is as stupid does.

Or simply dropping it has a significantly less probability of being seen/drawing attention....