Good luck finding anything in Lake Washington. Unless the visibility has improved a lot in the last 15 years you can't see your hand in front of your face at the bottom of that #*%%@($# lake. I've had to do recovery operations there and at one point I found the guy when my mask hit him and I realized my partner didn't have a plaid wetsuit on. That was in 10 feet of water at a marina in Bellevue. On another case at 100 feet it was a black hole and I had to look for my bubbles to figure out which way was up. Most fishermen I know aren't like that guy. Perhaps Alaska fishermen are better, or maybe I'm just lucky.
John --- On Thu, 5/21/09, Bob S <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bob S <[email protected]> Subject: [UnifliteWorld] Re: Conclusion to the lost anchor story To: "UnifliteWorld" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 3:51 PM Bad luck. The fisherman caught $500 in clams and $2,000 in chain and anchor. Must have felt it was his lucky day. You could probably take a scuba tank up to Reid Harbor and find 10 anchors in an hour. Also, according to local boating lore, there is a snarl of abandoned cable from old log rafts which captures anchors in Andrews bay on Lake Washington. Always thought that might be a good place to look............ On May 21, 3:15 pm, "Kerry Lebel" <[email protected]> wrote: > So I found a diver on Craigslist and he was very reasonable. $100 to go out > and look. Another $100 if he found. I took today off and we boated up to > Blake Island from Gig Harbor. Beautiful weather for a cruise. We got up > there and there were SEVEN commercial fishing boats right at the point where > I dropped the anchor. What the heck? Turns out they were geoduck farming. > The geoduck guys harvest them by sending someone down on a air line. So > basically there were already seven divers out there right at the spot I lost > the anchor. The diver looked over at me with a frown and said "Your anchor > is good as gone." I didn't want to believe it and we had spent an hour > boating to get to the spot. I know the salvage laws just as good as any > boater but I didn't want to give up hope. He went in the water looking for > it anyway. About 10 minutes later a DNR boat came up to me to warn me that > the boats around me had divers down. I let him know that I saw the dive > flags and that I had a diver of my own looking for my lost anchor. The DNR > guy came back with "Was it large anchor that was painted white and have a > pivot?". My stomach sank. "Yes it is actually" I replied. He then told > me that one of the fishing boats had pulled up the anchor not an hour prior. > He tried hailing him on the radio but the fisherman would not reply. About > 30 minutes later my diver came back up to the surface. I hauled him in and > told him the story. The DNR guy would not tell me which boat it was that > had my anchor. He reminded me of the salvage laws and said if the guy > didn't want to give it up, there was nothing he could do. I reminded him > that laws are one thing and morals are another. Even if it meant I gave the > fisherman a finders fee I would have been ok with that. I tried hailing > the boats on the VHF, and one guy said he would keep an eye out for it. No > one else on the other 6 vessels replied. Anyway, the DNR guy took my name > and cell number but made no promises. So there I was, within a few hundred > feet of my anchor and 300 ft of chain and no one would cough it up. I was > just an hour too late. So much for paying it forward. Karma will get that > clown eventually. > > Kerry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/UnifliteWorld?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
