Objects found while freediving

[flyboy748]

By the way why do you go diving with scissors????

Because the meat cleaver is to big and bulky yes, and because you easily cut almost anything including wire with them if necessary, (wire fishing leaders etc.) less likelyhood of stabbing/cutting myself, and of course to cut lampreys in half if they latch onto me!!

Yeah Michael, I had something like that running around the back of my mind... I didn't want to give him the chance, whatever it was! That could hurt :crutch

Aaron

 

[BatRay]

Lampreys have circular mouths, and those circular mouths have a ring of rather sharp teeth in them. You're lucky it didn't get you, because that wouldn't have been a good thing at all .

 

[aesop]

A good thread! Keep em coming. I'll be sure to post when I start freediving.


All my life I've been "treasure hunting", mostly I've found roostertails(lewer). A good way to keep the tackle box stocked.


Chris

 

[SEDATE]

Folks! i find out a transmeter of Dutch Local radio (cylinder shape with orange color, 70cmx40cm including a chip electronic card inside and a ambulance light inside top) i find out it in Antalya/Turkiye how i came here i do not know...swim to swim may be!
if owner here i can send him by post

 

[Scuba Brad]

What is the oddest thing you've found on the bottom of the ocean?

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I was talking with a friend today who had been diving in Hawaii just off the coast of a world class golf course. I guess their formations of coral where awesome. In any case, he came up to a formation that looked rather odd. As he examined it further he realized it was a Titleist Metal Driver probably in its time around a $600 club. It had found its way into the middle of a coral formation......and was not becoming part of the formation. Now can you imagine the feeling that golfer had as I watched his $600 driver fly towards the deep blue? Even more surprise to have a diver find it later...........coral encased. He also mentioned he found around 100 golf balls in various condition..........and TWO other golf clubs bent in two. As a golfer myself I just had to laugh.

Ok sooooooo here is the question: What is the most odd, strange, wierd, out of place, or funny thing you have ever come across deep in the ocean?

Happy Diving

 

[podge]

Re: What is the Oddest Thing you found while diving?

I’ve not actually ever come across one but I believe one of the oldest things in the sea is a very rare specimen of the OldSarge. I believe he has been spotted in the sea around SoCal and is known to be a prolific predator.
rofl rofl

Sorry oldsarge no offence meant just couldn’t resist.

 

[fcallagy]

not diving but my mate on a beach in west coast of Ireland recently came across an aluminium air cylinder with Bahama divers on it. Some distance travelled.

 

[Oldsarge]

Well, I thought I'd found someone's lost polespear but it was just a pipe with a bent end. Drat!

 

[land shark]

once I found a clevis.... then a chain ..... then the mooring it was attached to. I screwed the chain and clevis back to the mooring. Would have loved to see the guys look on his face when he went down to fix his mooring

 

[Sean Smith]

Most recently, two porcelain toilet bowls...on the same dive. Sadly that was before I had my camera housing, so no I did not get any clever shots... :t

 

[Adrian]

The other day I saw a dirty large grey-brown cloth at around 8 meters and thought I'd better pick up that piece of trash. AS I was surfacing the color changed into a nice granate color and I ended up with a lovely towel!

 

[Mr. X]

Most recently, two porcelain toilet bowls...on the same dive. Sadly that was before I had my camera housing, so no I did not get any clever shots... :t

rofl How convenient.

Most recent finds while spearing:
1 pair Sunglasses,
A half dozen lead fishing weights 3-5oz various types,
A state of the art "rotten bottom" breakaway rig (with dead 60-80lb conger eel still attached - yuk),
A very large screwdriver,
Medical drip lines (allegedly washed 30 miles around Portland Bill from the Napoli wreck),
2 huge balls of blue wool (from the same wreck but only a mile or so away from it),
a/c hose assembly from a car a/c (ditto),
black & yellow dive mask (childs),
industrial size lobster pot (washed ashore but way too heavy to move),
plastic trap doors for crab traps (x2).

Consigned to Davy Jones' locker:

Most recent loss:
Omer Moonlight Elite spearo torch (Neptune demands his due) - at Shoalstone, Brixham, S. Devon

Earlier losses:
1 RA Marseille belt with around 16lb of lead (RA bar weights & yellow SCUBA weights) - at Newton's Cove, Weymouth
1 very nice but inexpensive dive knife - at Man O'War Bay, Durdle Dor.

The losses are of somewhat better quality than the finds (although I did find a few rather good fish, scallops & crabs along the way ).

 

[sciencemike]

My last dive i found a Canon camera still works nicely in a waterproof Bag housing and a scuba divers lead shot weight quick release pouch from a BCD. If anyone can tell me the make of the camera and lost one the weekend before last at Catalina ill be happy to mail it to ya.

ps Nice pics on there..lol

 

[flyboy748]

Nice find Mike! How're y'all surviving the fires down there at the moment?? I was hiking over Santa Monica way a couple weeks ago, and things looked tinder dry...

Cheers,
Aaron

 

[bgill]

I found THIS....I'm glad I was'nt on that boat (or anywhere near it) when it hit "TEXAS ROCK" in Lake Michigan!

Donated it to the local Bait Shop...Hoping the "rightful" owner might claim it!

 

[ocean_314]

The most interesting thing i have found while diving in Northern california is a bunch of chinese pottery jars that where sealed and covered with a red cloth with chinese writing on it. Turns out that there is a Buddist Temple and the monks make offerings to their dead by putting some change in the jars and throw the jars into the ocean.
Lots of golf balls and fishing lures. Still looking for my weight belt that i lost several years ago while getting out of the water.
the scarest think i found was a 3/4 eaten carcess of a seal, mr white had lunch, it was hung up on some rock in a area where i dive that is protected by a bunch of rocks, but man did it spook me.

 

[Mr. X]

My last dive i found a Canon camera still works nicely in a waterproof Bag housing and a scuba divers lead shot weight quick release pouch from a BCD. If anyone can tell me the make of the camera ...

Was it a Canon by any chance?

 

[Pastor]

Was it a Canon by any chance?

Don't be silly! He said it still works rofl

 

[azapa]

FOUND:
- ditto on the golf balls, and if you knew where I dived it would really freak you out because there is NOTHING there, no houses, ships don't pass, nothing.
- tons on fishing tackle, in one case with live fish attached, very skinny, released.
- My then 3 year old son found my fave dive knife (had since I was 15) one week after I lost it amongst the rocks in front of our house, gotta love him!

LOST: one very nice spear gun, sniff snif

 

[ibiza spearo]

Spear tips
Omer moonlight dive torch that still worked(good ad. for "Duracell")
Peugot 50cc scooter
Brand new danforth
Various snorkels
1 gold ring................lost by the wife 2 days before!!!
The head of a pig
Computer monitor
9mm pistol.......badly corroded
Pair of wellington boots