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We have abused our waters by using them as a dumping ground for everything. Therefore I have never been surprised by what I have found. I found a 28ft ice boat from the early 1900’s that looked weird until I figured out what it was. 3-4 ft of viz makes figuring things out a little harder when you can’t see much of them at the same time.
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Not really weird, but yesterday I found a rod and reel, both in good condition. Funny what you find on a safety stop shore diving.
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Spotted a gold brick near a Jersey wreck, turned out to be a yellow Portland cement brick :(
Found a knife, not a divers and my buddy brought up a bag of ashes, the police hoped the two were not related!
In Shark River where I like to test new gear before a trip its on a beach used to train, next to a fishing pier and boat ramp so there are always things lost by boaters, fishermen and new divers but none of that is weird. Another diver thought he’d found a cannonball there until some one pointed out it had three finger holes making it a bowling ball but how did it get 100’ from shore? I did recover a trash can there that is now my rinse tank :)
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I wish I would find a gold brick sometime.
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Agojo - 5/05/2014 6:11 AM 
I found a mule team yoke in the middle of Beaver Lake, AR. It was near the foundations of a submerged farmstead from when the dam was built creating the lake. Also was canned goods (home canned in glass jars) in the cellar that the roof had collapsed.
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I found a $50,000 Metecal money note from Mozambique under a boat wreck off Catalina Island in California. That’s a long ways from Africa! Blood diamond money? Who knows. But it’s my lucky pirate booty for now :-)
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Greg - 5/05/2014 1:16 PM
These guys found 1,000 oz. of gold: blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2014/05/05/odyssey-reco...-ever-lost-at-sea-2/
I have found dollar bills, masks, snorkels, weights, fins, rings, glasses, shoes, head bands, t-shirts and an iPhone (still worked).
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I found a grenade from the early 1800’s, bar and chain shot also from the war of 1812 under 2’ of silt.
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In Shark River between the marina and the fishing pier where you normally can’t dive there was a newspaper vending machine with a cloud of juvi tropical fish around it like it was some coral head. I would have left it as it was becoming home to marine life but a clean up crew pulled it from the river :(
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A mermaid.
But I have pictures of BIG FOOT behind my place in the Pennsylvania mountains too.
And one of those mountain lions too.
:- )~
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Well with a few hundred million in equipment, who know what you will find.
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I wish I had a picture of both the bomb and the sign the DM posted on the boat. We were diving San Clemente Island, the Southern most of the Channel Islands off the Southern California coast. The island is owned by the military which uses it primarily for naval target practice. Every time I’ve been to the island we have to check to see which, if any, areas are open to us to dive on a given day. Well, on this day we were diving "Airport Reef" located at the end of the runway. Apparently it is not uncommon for planes to drop their unused bombs into the water rather than try and land with them. The sign next to the dive gate read "IF IT LOOKS LIKE A BOMB...IT IS A BOMB! DON’T TOUCH IT!" And yes, I found one. And no, I did not touch it.
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Once upon a time, at about 15m with around 3m viz, I found a lone, clearly inexperienced diver (it turned out he was on his very 1st sea dive).
He had a bit of air left so we did a 3 minute stop, and when we surfaced, there was his buddy, back on their boat, drinking a cup of coffee!
Can you believe that.
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From ArgentAqua: Once upon a time, at about 15m with around 3m viz, I found a lone, clearly inexperienced diver (it turned out he was on his very 1st sea dive). He had a bit of air left so we did a 3 minute stop, and when we surfaced, there was his buddy, back on their boat, drinking a cup of coffee! Can you believe that.
Unfortunately yes :(
Back in the early 70’s we had a dive instructor in the dive club who had narcolepsy and we would sometimes find him asleep on the bottom. You grabbed his BC and slowly took him up, he would always wake before the surface! I guess that could count as a weird find :(
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In Kingston Ontario, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, we regularly find live ammunition, fresh water and silt preserve everything so well, as I commented above we have found grenades, cannonballs, from the 1800s and tons of brass from the early 1900s as well as a large assortment of tools from the early ship building days, bottles, clay pipes and so much more. Its a good place to dive...
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