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Objects found while freediving
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I will try to explain this one, but it is more of an "you had to be there" funny event.
Long ago I was a dive master on a 40 person dive boat (cattle boat) and found a turkey leg bone about 25CM (10 inches) long that had been on the bottom for a couple of weeks. It had the big knurled ends and a thin green and red surface coating or growth on it. It looked kind of gross and dead flesh colored.
So I grabbed it with my right hand and then pulled my entire hand into my wetsuit sleeve so that only 5CM (2 inches) of the bone with the knurled end was sticking out. I had a girl following just behind me, so I reached under a ledge on the reef and then made eye contact with her. When she looked at me I began acting like I couldn't get my arm out from under the ledge as if a big moray eel had hold of me under there. I was struggling and opened my eyes real big to look like something was eating my arm.
I then pulled my arm out to reveal that something had eaten my hand and all that was left was a gross looking bone with a knurled end sticking out of my wetsuit sleeve!
Her eyes got sooooooooo big, I almost drowned from laughing, but then I push my hand back out and let go of the bone to reveal the truth.
You just had to be there, it was too funny!!!!
Jim
Long ago I was a dive master on a 40 person dive boat (cattle boat) and found a turkey leg bone about 25CM (10 inches) long that had been on the bottom for a couple of weeks. It had the big knurled ends and a thin green and red surface coating or growth on it. It looked kind of gross and dead flesh colored.
So I grabbed it with my right hand and then pulled my entire hand into my wetsuit sleeve so that only 5CM (2 inches) of the bone with the knurled end was sticking out. I had a girl following just behind me, so I reached under a ledge on the reef and then made eye contact with her. When she looked at me I began acting like I couldn't get my arm out from under the ledge as if a big moray eel had hold of me under there. I was struggling and opened my eyes real big to look like something was eating my arm.
I then pulled my arm out to reveal that something had eaten my hand and all that was left was a gross looking bone with a knurled end sticking out of my wetsuit sleeve!
Her eyes got sooooooooo big, I almost drowned from laughing, but then I push my hand back out and let go of the bone to reveal the truth.
You just had to be there, it was too funny!!!!
Jim
Hadn't noticed this thread before, too busy night diving!!!
Found lots of the afore mentioned crap; masks, snorkels, anchors, plus general rubbish. On scuba have dived wrecks with plenty of ammo and ordinance.
Most memorable for me was one day on scuba out over a sandy seabed looking for scallops I saw a lost pear shape trolling (fishing) weight, half buried in the bottom. Picked it up only to discover it was actually a live pineapple grenade. Put it down very, very, very gently.
Know people who've found bodies. One mate shot one in the leg so he could tow it ashore and phone the police. It was an old women who had gone missing weeks before. Pretty ripe by all acounts.
Another fellow diver found a fin on the seabed with the remains of a foot inside. He took it to the police station, but they weren't interested in the fin 'til they looked inside. It belonged to a lost diver. Don't think they found any more of him.
Doesn't always pay to be too nosey.
Dave
Found lots of the afore mentioned crap; masks, snorkels, anchors, plus general rubbish. On scuba have dived wrecks with plenty of ammo and ordinance.
Most memorable for me was one day on scuba out over a sandy seabed looking for scallops I saw a lost pear shape trolling (fishing) weight, half buried in the bottom. Picked it up only to discover it was actually a live pineapple grenade. Put it down very, very, very gently.
Know people who've found bodies. One mate shot one in the leg so he could tow it ashore and phone the police. It was an old women who had gone missing weeks before. Pretty ripe by all acounts.
Another fellow diver found a fin on the seabed with the remains of a foot inside. He took it to the police station, but they weren't interested in the fin 'til they looked inside. It belonged to a lost diver. Don't think they found any more of him.
Doesn't always pay to be too nosey.
Dave
Been thinking some more. Propellor from a second world war flying fortress shot down over Guernsey. Raised it and donated it to a local collector.
Dave
Dave
Off Achill Island In ireland on the way back into Keem bay found a cool pair of wraparound shades. Must have only gone in earlier as had no corosion and have been used since. Cool but we hoping to see basking sharks and had mised one by a few hours according to the lifegaurd. Came within 30 ft of the shore.
Regards Feargus.
Regards Feargus.
My older sis and I were diving in Hume Lake up in the mountains. Over the course of three days, we found a full set of keys, a snorkel, a pair of goggles, several child's toys, a Timex Expedition watch, and three $1 bills. That was a fun trip .
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:t Found one of those sucker fish (that ride on whale sharks) trying to attach itself to my wetsuit yesterday, that was a freaky feeling.....:t
The big question is, "Exactly where on your wetsuit (such as the lower, front part) was it trying to suck onto???"
Some dIvers (and I woN't mention any names to be Kind) would paY big money for a fish like that!!!!!
Some dIvers (and I woN't mention any names to be Kind) would paY big money for a fish like that!!!!!
rofl rofl rofl
Ya I had one of those things (called a lamprey maybe??) follow me out of a cave in Jamaica last spring... I didn't have a wetsuit on though and he was tryin' in the worst way to latch on. He didn't seem too particular as to where to latch onto though... So as I thrashed around in the water trying to keep him off me, I pulled out my scissors and thought "If you latch onto me you little #$%^, it'll be the last thing you ever do!!" :martial :vangry Well those things must be telepathic, because no sooner had I formulated the thought, than he darted back into the cave. Wasn't sorry to see him go either... The rest of the day I kept my eyes peeled in the caves, but I've never seen another since.
Back to the topic though...
Last summer my father-in-law told me he thought he knew a place where I'd find lotsa stuff on the bottom. So we drove across the lake in the boat, and he indicated a cliff rising straight out of the water. He anchored about 100' from the cliff, and I slipped into the water to see. The vis was only about 5-8 feet, so I swam alongside the cliff so I could follow the rock wall down into the murk. After relaxing for a few minutes I dove. The bottom was only at 25-30' and right away I started seeing stuff sticking out of the silty bottom. On that first dive I found 2 working watches, 1 pair of sunglasses, a medic alert bracelet, 2 ball caps, and a few other things. I ended up with a bagfull of stuff including 3 watches, and 4 pairs of sunglasses and a few bucks in change. While I was cruising along the bottom on one of the dives, the reason for the abundant treasures became exceedingly apparent. I heard a crash in the water, and surfaced to see a swimmer who had just jumped off of the cliff... My father in law had seen people jumping off of there for years. Think I'll go back and clean up again next summer!
Cheers,
Aaron
Ya I had one of those things (called a lamprey maybe??) follow me out of a cave in Jamaica last spring... I didn't have a wetsuit on though and he was tryin' in the worst way to latch on. He didn't seem too particular as to where to latch onto though... So as I thrashed around in the water trying to keep him off me, I pulled out my scissors and thought "If you latch onto me you little #$%^, it'll be the last thing you ever do!!" :martial :vangry Well those things must be telepathic, because no sooner had I formulated the thought, than he darted back into the cave. Wasn't sorry to see him go either... The rest of the day I kept my eyes peeled in the caves, but I've never seen another since.
Back to the topic though...
Last summer my father-in-law told me he thought he knew a place where I'd find lotsa stuff on the bottom. So we drove across the lake in the boat, and he indicated a cliff rising straight out of the water. He anchored about 100' from the cliff, and I slipped into the water to see. The vis was only about 5-8 feet, so I swam alongside the cliff so I could follow the rock wall down into the murk. After relaxing for a few minutes I dove. The bottom was only at 25-30' and right away I started seeing stuff sticking out of the silty bottom. On that first dive I found 2 working watches, 1 pair of sunglasses, a medic alert bracelet, 2 ball caps, and a few other things. I ended up with a bagfull of stuff including 3 watches, and 4 pairs of sunglasses and a few bucks in change. While I was cruising along the bottom on one of the dives, the reason for the abundant treasures became exceedingly apparent. I heard a crash in the water, and surfaced to see a swimmer who had just jumped off of the cliff... My father in law had seen people jumping off of there for years. Think I'll go back and clean up again next summer!
Cheers,
Aaron
Yeah, at the bottom of tall cliffs is the perfect place to find stuff.
I found a cell phone, (which I got working again, had been there about two months.), a spiked leather bracer (gothic style), and my brothers medic alert (which he lost about a week earlier) at the base of one of the popular cliffs around here. As well as watches, sunglasses, snorkels, and of course beer cans.
~JMP
I found a cell phone, (which I got working again, had been there about two months.), a spiked leather bracer (gothic style), and my brothers medic alert (which he lost about a week earlier) at the base of one of the popular cliffs around here. As well as watches, sunglasses, snorkels, and of course beer cans.
~JMP
Aaron, I hope that wasn't a Lamprey, as those don't just latch on, they actually feed that way.
If Lamprey is what I think it is....
If Lamprey is what I think it is....
We have a place like that here in Parry Sound. Its called hole in the wall. It is a great place for people to jump off the cliffs there. I imagine it would be hard to dive with SCUBA because its a busy boat channel as well. Its very narrow however so if I were to justfreedive around I wouldn't get hassled. My only concern would be those people jumping from 30-40 feet off the cliff when I am coming to surface :naughtyroflroflflyboy748 said:
I can't wait to freedive down there and see whats downs there.
As regards to what I have found.
- Bikes complete with a rope (people riding them off the dock and then forgetting about them or cutting the line).
- Tool boxes
- A LOT of pennies (Bling, Bling!!!)
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