New Key West Wrecks

[Zodiacdiverdave]

Dave, Glenn is coming over here to Tampa soon to look at some new technology from Aqua Scan UK. I will drop your name in his hat of potential divers. I think I've seen enough here to vouch for your skills, experience and determination. :-)

Jason

Hey thanks Jason, I am hoping I will be in your area in March or April for a shark tooth hunt. Perhaps we could talk shop over a beer or two.
Dave

 

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[Zodiacdiverdave]

Jason - This thread caught my eye. Always wanted to be part of a salvage effort. I am a very experienced SCUBA diver and find myself in a place where I could spare some time. Resume: * 1500 dives off all US coasts from Maine to Key West, gulf, Monterrey Bay CA, and Puget Sound, * BS in Engineering Management * Master of Engineering in Ocean Engineering from Florida Atlantic Univ.

Would love to get injected into this discussion.



Thanks
Bryan

DiverBry, are you from the north east?
ZDD

 

[ScubaFinder]

Dave, I say we talk shop on the back deck after the shark tooth dive. :-) I assume you are heading somewhere near Venice, FL. That is only about 45 minutes south, and I'm always up for a megaladon tooth dive if you have the space.

Bryan, If you are near the keys there are some diving opportunities open now, and maybe somethng near West Palm Beach. Most people are looking for full time divers only.

Jason

 

[Zodiacdiverdave]

Dave, I say we talk shop on the back deck after the shark tooth dive. :-) I assume you are heading somewhere near Venice, FL. That is only about 45 minutes south, and I'm always up for a megaladon tooth dive if you have the space.


Jason

That sounds perfect Jason, would love to have you along for the dives and yes Venice is the destination. We were there a few years back and scored a few nice ones. I will let you know our plans as it gets closer but right now I am waiting to here about my daughters courses with the Air Force. My wife and I have been taking care of her son while she has been away. The dad is a waste product and not in the scene at all.
Dave

 

[Dell Winders]

Dell,
The information given to this fellow from Atlanta was leaked to him by a friend of his in the Military. After 9/11 that door was shut. What was interesting was this fellow went ahead and did many of his own surveys with the information he had obtained spending a fortune of his own money. I never did hear if he was sucsessful. But one "golden" anomaly he wanted to check was just a tiny consentrated area. He didnt know at the time that this was just a few hundred yards away from the Atocha´s main hull.
Other than that the fifteen years i have been in this business everybody and thier mothers and thier dogs have come to me with some type of long range detection devises and never has any of them proved to me they worked. Just thinking i remember a company flying around two dowsers in a helicopter up and down the reef. That didnt work either.
Magnetometer, sub-bottom profilers, side scan imagery and most of all just plain dumb luck. The last being the one that has worked best for me.

The same with me, that no matter how sophisticated the tools I use, it's usually luck that puts me in just the right place, under the right circumstances to make a find, or discovery. For that reason, I will use every tool I can afford in order to increase my chances and not allow ego, or peers, to prevent me from trial & error experimentation.

The photo below is Salvor Roy Volker, (deceased) holding an LRL receiver I used to detect & plot Silver on the Cabin wreck. I first Dowsed and plotted a portion of the scatter pattern of anomalies on a nautical chart. Within that pattern I was mentally detecting Silverware. I used the LRL to confirm the probability of Silver.

Billy Becker, was the diver aboard the "Golden Royal" that searched that location, and what did he report finding? Silverware!

I'm sure the State has a record of the find, but there will be no record of, how it was found. Dell

 

[DiverBry]

ZDD, Yes I am from the NE but currently reside in Wake Forest NC. May be moving back north this spring - not sure right now.

Bryan

 

[DiverBry]

Jason - sorry for the delayed response. I have been on travel.

I am familiar with that part of Florida - went to grad school in Boca. Right now I could swing a full time dive effort. Who do I talk to?

Thanks
Bryan

 

[DiverBry]

I can be reached directly at bryanfisk421@gmail.com if that makes it easier.

Thanks
B