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Steven Lindblom wrote:
> 
> >Patric,
> >you'll find most hardware stores stock 15" pipe. If you want you can bend it
> >a bit yourself then go down to the local boat ramp and place it in the water
> >somewhere you'll remember. Come back in a few months and 'PRESTO' instant
> >shipwreck artifact.:)
> >Scott
> 
> This is not joke. I know a guy who collects old cheap tools and fittings
> from the dump, and stamps them U-(name of earlier sub whose tool set the
> 853 inherited ommitted for security reasons). He's saving them up to dump
> on the U853 next time he's down.
> German subs, I should probably mention, carried fairly cheap tools that
> look likt the giveaways that come in the trunk of a new car, and stamped
> with the subs number using a plain old hand metal stamping dies.
> 
> The joke, from his point of view, is to wonder how long before the finders
> catch on that the brass is NPT and the wrenches inch. Or to look forward to
> the day another diver is showing him his treasures, and he recognizes one
> of his creations.
> 
> When I question this practice, he says "just making everyone happy".
> 


Steve;
   I know of one prominent published wreck diver that took an old set of
mommas
sterling plated silverware and created "artifacts" in much the same
manner as 
you describe. But he had a different agenda from the one you discuss. He
takes
takes the charter with some of his bestest buddies, does the dive and
"viola"
he's got the cats meow of artifacts from a certain Carolina wreck! The
really
interesting part of this is the expression of envy on his associates
faces from
this extraordinary find. To take it a step further, he doesnt tell for
quite 
some period of time that these are in fact fakes! 
  Pretty good huh. I have a picture of the fooled (but not foolish)
associates 
face at the moment of realization. This kind of thing should be expected
from
wreck divers. Its all in good fun.
 
On another note, maybe we can get Richard Dusch to give us a description
of "Frank's Leverite" .
When I heard the story my milkshake went thru the nose from laughing.
Come on
R.D. give it up!!!

Tony Profera


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