Remind Me To Go Dive The Marina

[Midnightsun]

This is pretty cool. They actually found an iPhone that had been underwater for 6 months and still works. Amazing how much garbage is down there. https://www.iclarified.com/80003/iphone ... lake-video

[km1125]

I have a friend who dives to recover all kinds of things. Had him come to the marina couple times just for fun. One time I challenged him to find the stainless cover for the back of my electric air horn. It had popped of YEARS earlier when I was going to try and adjust them and plinked into the water, never to be seen again.

He found it, along with one of my windshield canvasses that had blown off in a storm at least 5 years earlier. It cleaned up well and became a spare, because I had long since replaced them. He did find a bunch of other stuff too, like a 20 year old Motorola flip phone (useless now).

At the next well I was at, he found a TON of stuff. FIVE different boat brushes with long handles. Most of them were in GREAT shape and I still use a couple of them to this day. I gave away a couple too. I still want to bring him to the fuel dock to poke around there. I'm sure he would find quite the assortment of stuff.

[g36]

I'm a diver and have recovered things for friends too. However diving and swimming around docks is pretty dangerous ie. Stray electrical current etc. It's always on mind if doing this

[km1125]

Source of the post I'm a diver and have recovered things for friends too. However diving and swimming around docks is pretty dangerous ie. Stray electrical current etc. It's always on mind if doing this

My friend has one of those floating stray current detectors he throws in the water as he's prepping to go in. It is definitely something to consider especially whenever around docks with shore power available.

[waybomb]

On our first boat, a new boat, after one of our first trips, one of our props came off coming down the "fairway" to our slip. Local diver, also a marina employee, went looking for it. Not knowing exactly where it came off, provided a challenge. He couldn't find it. Found a bunch of other stuff, but not my prop.

[RGrew176]

I've lost quite a few things overboard over the years never to be seen again. It's a fact of life for a boater.