Not much diving going on, so here's the only one I made this week around Tampa Bay.
I made a salvage dive for a guy who runs a business with binocular viewing machines. Some vandals had rolled one of his Great Depression era viewers off the Redington pier about 2 weeks ago. Nobody new exactly where it was, but they're cast iron and weigh about 200 lbs so I figured is wasn't far from where it was mounted.
Found it freediving on about my 7th dive, in about 3 ft visibility. But that was the easy part. 3 guys on the pier could not pull it up as I expected so I tanked up and rigged a 100 lbs lift bag to it and ran the line through the scupper of my kayak. We got it up and worked around the pier to a davit lift. Found out my cheapo lift bag doesn't actual have seams like a BC bladder, so once about 3/4 full it starts to leak slowly, but it was still enough to float it and drag it around to the electric lift.
Here's Jerry & Yvonne with the viewer, which reminded me of ET looking up at me, when I found it laying on the bottom. They were celebrating their 60th anniversary that day too!
Chad
I made a salvage dive for a guy who runs a business with binocular viewing machines. Some vandals had rolled one of his Great Depression era viewers off the Redington pier about 2 weeks ago. Nobody new exactly where it was, but they're cast iron and weigh about 200 lbs so I figured is wasn't far from where it was mounted.
Found it freediving on about my 7th dive, in about 3 ft visibility. But that was the easy part. 3 guys on the pier could not pull it up as I expected so I tanked up and rigged a 100 lbs lift bag to it and ran the line through the scupper of my kayak. We got it up and worked around the pier to a davit lift. Found out my cheapo lift bag doesn't actual have seams like a BC bladder, so once about 3/4 full it starts to leak slowly, but it was still enough to float it and drag it around to the electric lift.
Here's Jerry & Yvonne with the viewer, which reminded me of ET looking up at me, when I found it laying on the bottom. They were celebrating their 60th anniversary that day too!
Chad
