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Originally Posted by Acres per Second
Small items such as prescription sunglasses (with polycarbonate lenses) weigh a fraction of their normal weight when submerged. The slightest motion will cause them to skitter away: even a brief overnight delay for sunlight has caused items to disappear on me.
And even if you successfully recover them next year, any metal parts on those sunglasses may not be operable by Spring. This lake water—for whatever reason—has a very corrosive effect on most metals.
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Isn’t it the truth! Little objects sure do skitter away quite easily and far! Last fall our son lost his inexpensive sunglasses and found them in August. Surprisingly they were not corroded at all. Unfortunately he lost them a week later when he jumped into the lake from the boat. They are way too deep to retrieve them. Good thing they were cheap!
Sorry to hear about your glasses JS. If you had called, I would have donned the wetsuit to get them for you. Now it is getting a bit too chilly for me. Next spring sounds like a plan.
Many of us took advantage of the wonderful weather Saturday to go out on the boat. Hopefully we get another couple of weekends just like it! Rain during the week, because we need it and beautiful, calm weekends would be perfect. I’m sad the season is almost over.
