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#1 Moose

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Posted 27 July 2007 - 07:22 AM

Last night, I did a dive in the Delaware River around the Easton, PA area. There is an old bridge that was torn apart by a storm many years ago. They built new bridges over it and left the remains in the water.

So, as I came up to where the remains of the old bridge were, we found that the most recent storm uncovered about 400% more of the remains! Me and my buddy were like kids in a candy store. We were explorering this wreck that no human had seen in decades!

What I noticed is how REALLY dangerous, diving around a mangled mass of rusted metal, with a swift current, really is. There were large i-beams sticking out, all rusted and jagged. Viz was only about 3-5 feet, so you saw these large, knife like obects with little time to react.

Then, when we were doing our post dive talk, I was thinking about other "non-boat wreck, wrecks" I have dived. Cars, trucks, helicopers, planes, trains, bridges, buildings, heck, just about everything!

So, what were some of the coolest, non-boat wreck, wrecks you have dived?

Oh, I found a really cool old pick axe in the remains of the bridge!
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 07:47 AM

So, what were some of the coolest, non-boat wreck, wrecks you have dived?

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Posted 27 March 2008 - 03:25 PM

as far as non-wrecks I dived and found a 6500 watt Honda generator and lift-bagged it to the surface , then cleaned her up and she is still running today.

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Posted 27 March 2008 - 05:50 PM

Dutch Springs Quarry, in Bethlehem, PA, has a number of sunken objects on which to dive, including a Cessna airplane, a fire engine, a pumphouse, and a Sikorsky helicopter (which is actually suspended in the water column).

http://www.dutchsprings.com/

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Posted 27 March 2008 - 08:00 PM

Dutch Springs Quarry, in Bethlehem, PA, has a number of sunken objects on which to dive, including a Cessna airplane, a fire engine, a pumphouse, and a Sikorsky helicopter (which is actually suspended in the water column).

http://www.dutchsprings.com/

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Posted 27 March 2008 - 08:28 PM

My most unusual wreck dive was a pickup truck a guy had driven off the end of a fishing pier - on purpose. It was actually a S&R dive and a little stressful because there were reports of a child in the truck (not true). The guy changed his mind after crashing over the side, got out and swam away. The truck was upside down and landed against a big STOP sign. It was a pretty funny sight - after we figured out eveyone was OK.

I've never been on them, but there are a bunch of Army tanks sunk here as artificial reefs. I would like to dive those sometime. I saw the video of the sinking and that was pretty cool.

We also have the I-10 bridge rubble, compliments of Hurricane Ivan, which was put out as an artificial reef. That's pretty crazy to dive on. Strange to see an octopus hanging out on a big slab of highway - at the bottom of the ocean - with lane marking, guardrails, etc.

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