newbie finds a bottle!

[jon m]

hey all,
just got back from Hawaii (left Sat morning 1 day ahead of the quake) after being certified the weekend before... on our second dive i found a small (medicine?) bottle!
the quote from the DM " just when you think there's no more good stuff to find, somebody finds a bottle on their first dive, you *******" lol! he was very cool after that, though ,offering congrats to me... it was exiting to start my collection so early. now i just have a huge desire to find more! uh-oh!!
-me

 

[shoupart]

Nice! I have a little bottle collection I've started, too. Whenever I found an interesting bottle underwater, I'll clean it off and keep it. So far I have five or six.

 

[octotat]

Congrats! Unfortunately, you've been infected with the sickness. Soon you'll find yourself dry suit diving in a murky river full of entanglement hazards looking for stuff you'd walk right by at a garage sale

Any inscription on the bottle? Was it a screw top, or a flange type stopper top bottle? Size?

 

[jon m]

it is a small ,4-5" high brown glass bottle, it does have some markings (numbers) on the bottom, but nothing on the sides... and it is a screw cap, but i did learn the difference between a stopper-type (no threads) and a screw cap from the DM , who said he'd have been really mad if it was a stopper type! actually , he was really cool, just bustin' my chops about it!
i'm not going to clean it off, it has some neat coral type growths on it, and i think it gives it character... it's nothing compared to some of the other bottles i've seen on this site (those are VERY cool) but, it's mine!
-me

 

[Rick Inman]

Nice!

I've got lots of old bottles. Treasures, to which my wife has said, "Get that junk out of the house!" and now resides unseen in my dive room in the garage.

 

[shoupart]

How do you plan to clean it off? I used a bath of white vinegar for a couple of days and that did a pretty good job of getting rid of the growths. I'd like to learn of some other methods, though..

 

[Codyjp]

geez, i never considered bring up old bottles. i always found it fun to leave them sitting upright on a rock or something. It seems that most of the bottles i find are homes for some sort of sea creature.