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Here's a copy of a post to the ecodiver list, from a fellow looking for a copy of an old Australian dive magazine called "Trident" or something like that. Anyway, since there are a lot of archeologists and Australians here, I thought I'd post this here, and see if anyone here had the magazine or remembers dropping an anchor off California 2,000 years ago. Sorry to waste the bandwidth to everyone else. anyway, Jim Hall writes: --------------------------- I was writing to everyone in general in the hope that someone out there would know about this magazine and could help me find it. Back in the early 70's a group of us found some interesting, defintely man made, stone artifacts off the coast of Los Angeles. I was researching an article on spearfishing at the time and picked up a copy of this magazine because it contained a similar article and I wanted to put a global perspective in my story. I was surprised to find a line drawing of one of the artifiacts we had just hoisted out of the water. This drawing was as if the artist had sat down and actually sketched one of the artifacts. One problem, though, the drawing was of a 2,000 year-old Chinese stone anchor. That means that the artifacts at least have the potential of re-writing a major piece of history. Unfortunately, the magazine was stolen off my desk (I was a scuba instructor at the time). Now, I have one more question. How did my post, which was made on rec.scuba get a reply on the ecodiver net? Jim Hall JL48@ao*.co* --------------------------------------- Back to Roger: I figure a letter from techdiver, a list he has probably never heard of, will really bother him. By the way, I've seen this anchor at Bob Meistrel's house (the Body Glove guy). It's a stubby cylinder about the size of a slightly squashed beer keg, with a hole running through it's axis. It's not a natural formation, but since I am barely even able to read, I can't testify to it's authenticity. I'm not even going to get into whether or not I would have brought it up. #----------------------------------------------------# Roger Carlson H 310-frogger Somewhere off Hermosa Beach, CA W 310-813-0858 Roger_Carlson@at*.sp*.tr*.co* F 310-812-1363 #----------------------------------------------------#
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