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Winnipesaukee Divers · 05-27-2004, 04:01 PM

Cliff my dive instructor and good diving buddy, said, "I like diving with you. You swim right over all the good stuff and never even see it". He always had old bottles and good stuff when we came up and I had nothing. Then one day as I dropped off the back of my boat at it's mooring to do a recon dive. I had a twisted strap that was particularly uncomfortable so I tried to fix it before I hit the bottom. I got it undone, but was closing in on the bottom to fast to stop. "Yuck" I did a perfect face plant into about 2 feet of mud, what could be worse? I put my hand out to right myself and struck something. I grab it and rose up out the bottom and tried to identify what I had found. When I got into clear water I saw something gleaming at me. What I had found was a silver snuffbox with 24 k gold inlaid initials "GHB", what a find, I put it in the pocket of my BC and continued on with the dive. It was at the point I realized what Cliff meant. All the treasure are hidden and all you have to do is, look... If you can't see with your eyes then your fingers are the next best things. By the time I returned to the boat I had the silver snuffbox, a gold pocket watch with fob and more old bottles than I could carry. That was the beginning of my treasure hunting… I was hooked. Today, I have hundreds of antique artifacts including: watches, rings, bracelets and coins. Not to mention all the bottles old boat parts.

Did you know there has been civilization on the lake for 350 years and for the 200 it was considered the dump. That was where you took your trash out on the ice in the winter and come spring it was gone. Time has taken it toll and now all that is left is the good stuff. Think about all the items that were lost or just thrown into the lake over that same period if time and is still being deposited today. It's still there you just have to look for it...

Remember what Ansel Adams once said when he was asked how he became the world’s foremost photographer…. “Even a blind chicken can find feed if it pecks at the ground long enough”.

05-27-2004, 04:01 PM	#11
Winnipesaukee Divers Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Exeter, NH or @ WCYC on weekends Posts: 250 Thanks: 7 Thanked 46 Times in 28 Posts	Well, neither did I, untill..... Cliff my dive instructor and good diving buddy, said, "I like diving with you. You swim right over all the good stuff and never even see it". He always had old bottles and good stuff when we came up and I had nothing. Then one day as I dropped off the back of my boat at it's mooring to do a recon dive. I had a twisted strap that was particularly uncomfortable so I tried to fix it before I hit the bottom. I got it undone, but was closing in on the bottom to fast to stop. "Yuck" I did a perfect face plant into about 2 feet of mud, what could be worse? I put my hand out to right myself and struck something. I grab it and rose up out the bottom and tried to identify what I had found. When I got into clear water I saw something gleaming at me. What I had found was a silver snuffbox with 24 k gold inlaid initials "GHB", what a find, I put it in the pocket of my BC and continued on with the dive. It was at the point I realized what Cliff meant. All the treasure are hidden and all you have to do is, look... If you can't see with your eyes then your fingers are the next best things. By the time I returned to the boat I had the silver snuffbox, a gold pocket watch with fob and more old bottles than I could carry. That was the beginning of my treasure hunting… I was hooked. Today, I have hundreds of antique artifacts including: watches, rings, bracelets and coins. Not to mention all the bottles old boat parts. Did you know there has been civilization on the lake for 350 years and for the 200 it was considered the dump. That was where you took your trash out on the ice in the winter and come spring it was gone. Time has taken it toll and now all that is left is the good stuff. Think about all the items that were lost or just thrown into the lake over that same period if time and is still being deposited today. It's still there you just have to look for it... Remember what Ansel Adams once said when he was asked how he became the world’s foremost photographer…. “Even a blind chicken can find feed if it pecks at the ground long enough”.