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Diver1111 · 09-08-2009, 07:27 PM

I have dived there a few times-right around the pier and up and down the shore.

Found some old bottles but nothing else to write home about historically-speaking.

Also found large piles (4 feet high) of cinder-like debris, almost looked volcanic, tough, sharp, stone-like material that is really hard; Whatever it was it was uniform in nature, meaning it did not have alot of junk mixed in with it like wood, stones, trash, pieces of cinder-block etc.. I welcome any ideas as to what this material might be. Odd. Given its location offshore, I can only guess that it was dumped from a boat vs. from shore.

In maybe 2006 I did however find a womans' pocketbook loaded down with rocks (my 2nd in Winni) off the docks south of the pier. I took it home, opened it up and found it belonged to a woman in... Barrington... as I recall. Wallet had a Blue Cross card, drivers license, checks, make-up, pens and assorted other items, plus $8.00 in cash in her wallet.

I tracked her down, got her address and mailed the entire affair to her... and the story goes like this...

Seems she was a single Mom doing a DJ gig-her 2nd job-at night. Was hired for an event on the western shore there one evening. About midnight she left the gig with a girlfriend after getting paid perhaps $250 in cash for her work. She put it in a Bank of NH envelope, then placed it in her purse, on top, inside the pocketbook.

She and her girlfriend-who was now in the company of some dirtbag recently released from prison her friend had met, walked out to the parking lot to her car/their cars.

For reasons that I don't recall, she explained that she and her girlfriend got separated from her car-perhaps walking and smoking-I don't know, while the dirtbag remained "behind'; When she got home she discovered her envelope in her pocketbook was gone, but nothing else. She speculated-prob. correctly-that the dirtbag rifled her purse, grabbed the easy target, then walked the pocketbook to the waters' edge and sank it with any available rocks ASAP.

She was amazed I recovered it, and of course most thankful, for what the recovery was worth. To add insult-to-injury, she told me her pocketbook itself was a...."Coach" brand (Ladies-help me out here)...a high-end pocketbook she really liked and treated herself to-and was pissed off she lost that as well as the money.

I told her to contact (Coach?), explain the situation about the theft and that the handbag was now toast, and see if they would cut her any slack on replacing it with something else...given her attraction to their products. I told her to have them contact me if they doubt her story.

Never heard from her again except for a very nice Thank You note in the mail.

You never know what you'll find...

09-08-2009, 07:27 PM	#4
Diver1111 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Exeter NH Posts: 603 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,032 Times in 227 Posts	Diving Alton and the Pier area I have dived there a few times-right around the pier and up and down the shore. Found some old bottles but nothing else to write home about historically-speaking. Also found large piles (4 feet high) of cinder-like debris, almost looked volcanic, tough, sharp, stone-like material that is really hard; Whatever it was it was uniform in nature, meaning it did not have alot of junk mixed in with it like wood, stones, trash, pieces of cinder-block etc.. I welcome any ideas as to what this material might be. Odd. Given its location offshore, I can only guess that it was dumped from a boat vs. from shore. In maybe 2006 I did however find a womans' pocketbook loaded down with rocks (my 2nd in Winni) off the docks south of the pier. I took it home, opened it up and found it belonged to a woman in... Barrington... as I recall. Wallet had a Blue Cross card, drivers license, checks, make-up, pens and assorted other items, plus $8.00 in cash in her wallet. I tracked her down, got her address and mailed the entire affair to her... and the story goes like this... Seems she was a single Mom doing a DJ gig-her 2nd job-at night. Was hired for an event on the western shore there one evening. About midnight she left the gig with a girlfriend after getting paid perhaps $250 in cash for her work. She put it in a Bank of NH envelope, then placed it in her purse, on top, inside the pocketbook. She and her girlfriend-who was now in the company of some dirtbag recently released from prison her friend had met, walked out to the parking lot to her car/their cars. For reasons that I don't recall, she explained that she and her girlfriend got separated from her car-perhaps walking and smoking-I don't know, while the dirtbag remained "behind'; When she got home she discovered her envelope in her pocketbook was gone, but nothing else. She speculated-prob. correctly-that the dirtbag rifled her purse, grabbed the easy target, then walked the pocketbook to the waters' edge and sank it with any available rocks ASAP. She was amazed I recovered it, and of course most thankful, for what the recovery was worth. To add insult-to-injury, she told me her pocketbook itself was a...."Coach" brand (Ladies-help me out here)...a high-end pocketbook she really liked and treated herself to-and was pissed off she lost that as well as the money. I told her to contact (Coach?), explain the situation about the theft and that the handbag was now toast, and see if they would cut her any slack on replacing it with something else...given her attraction to their products. I told her to have them contact me if they doubt her story. Never heard from her again except for a very nice Thank You note in the mail. You never know what you'll find...