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> >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". > > Some one pulled this on the Chester Poling off of Cape Ann, Mass last year. July 28th, 1996 after driving some _five_ hours we're the first boat on scene with incredible 70' vis. (on Aug 21, 1995 vis was 1') Dropping down I see something almost glowing on the bottom. I drop down past the deck into the hold and there are PLATES!, BIG plates! SMALL plates! plates everywhere! Since these were out in the open my original thought was that some one had penetrated gotten the plates and then been forced to drop some. No sooner do I grab the biggest plate than I notice a hissing thats getting louder and louder. I'm freeflowing! Tried to carry the plate and start my ascent, but decided to drop the plate, started gesturing franticly to my buddy to grab some plates, began my ascent, and switched over to my pony. My buddy brought up the _smallest_ plate they could find. We all got a good laugh when we realized the plate was dated several years _after_ the Chester Poling went down. I've still got the plate; its my first piece of 'treasure'. Since it was so obviously a fake I didn't mind at all; not sure how I'd feel about bringing up a forgery from the U853. I can't see myself taking it as humorously. -- Sam Abbe home:abbe@sn*.ne*, work:sabbe@si*.co*, http://www.red.org/sam Capt. - T.A.C. Paintball Team, TIP#408, stock phantom & 'mag [/] PADI Rescue Diver [/] Next Dive: Bahamas on Blackbeard Cruises [:]-) '91 Acura Integra - 194,000 and still going "If there's a cheap sport I haven't found it" +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Please send messages for the WreckDiver list to: wreckdiver@wreckdiver.com Send subscription and help requests to: wreckdiver-request@wreckdiver.com +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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