February 19:  On this Sunday we returned to dive the remains of the wooden steam ship and the fishing tug that had been left, one on top of the other, to rot on the rivers bottom.  As noted these wrecks had not been dove for over +30 years and in that time the embankment had been modified and the shore line clamshelled which for all practical purposes totally destroyed the ships.

This trip was by boat in the hopes that side scanning the area would reveal additional parts along the shore line and out to the middle of the river. Today the visibility was 6″ to 18″ at best and the current, especially when trying to get back into the boat was “ripping”.

Tuesday:  Today was a combo day of mowing the lawn with Kevin, which means looking for treasure on the bottom of a body of water using a poor man’s side scan. Its called mowing the lawn because while dragging your tow fish it resembles the pattern when you mow your yard. Then if you sport something interesting, you toss out a buoy hopefully near the object and then doing a quick bounce dive to see if the hits are really something.  Today we know where things are not, and the things that “were located” were not what we were looking for.  A tow fish where your sonar transducer is mounted on or within a torpedo looking device being dragged by the boat.