Police divers

[Anthony Appleyard]

There was considerable UW and top side police activity in the genesis of diving
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There was a charter (as I recall on Glen Millers boat) to the WS. On board was a number of the members of the recently formed California Wreck Divers Club and the usual assortment of sport divers, including a number of federal officers.

After the first dive all the wreck divers held up their loot for pictures and discussion, which was taped recorded. After their "show and tell" the federal officers identified themselves and stated "You are under arrest, take off your equipment stack it in the corner and set over there " and began writing tickets.
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If this resulted in the equipment being seized, what in that sort of case does the seizing authority do with the seized equipment? Sell it? Send the large metal objects in it for scrap and incinerate the rest? Or what?

Did they seize the gear from all the divers on the boat, or only from those who had unauthorizedly taken stuff?