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HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!
- Thread starter Micheal_R
- Start date
No fun above the water line on days like that. Sounds like both of you got what you wanted out of it. We used to dive thru the ice on the ponds as a club just for the fun of it. They would cut a hole, then another one and let one guy in with a rope, go from hole to hole. Then everyone would snap on it and do their thing. Most of the time we did that in a pond with and all steam operated crane still in it.
Everyone liked to climb around on it and it was about the only thing in there. It was and old granite quarry. I remember a couple of dives that we used the old instant heater trick. Just 1/4 inch wet suits and warm water down the chest for most part. That cold water is heck on the kidneys.... We were young then. I'm talking between 1956 and 75 for most part. Gear then was mostly US Divers, had just gone to a single hose aquamatic from a double hose Viking I think it was. Flooded out easy it seems. Most of my diving was for my father at the boat yard working on props, or cutting up lobster pot line off the shafts and keeping our lobster tanks free of seaweeds.
This was at the mouth of the Thames River so a fair amount of ocean weeds passed by it on both incoming and outgoing tides. LIke you today, winter or summer, hot or cold made little difference. Our pumps fed the lobster tanks, clams tanks and bait tanks.
We were not far from old Fort Griswold in Groton CT. I was always looking for cannon balls and stuff that might of came from there but never found anything. Sense then its been dredged many times for the Submarines to get up to the Navy Base beyond the Goldstar bridge. I used to like to hear them blow balist as they were coming in on Fridays and didn't want to wait for the bridge to open. They would run just enough to keep the decks awash and slip under the railroad bridge. These were all the old fleet type diesel rigs. Now they are all nukes. Fun times.......
Was that arrow head just laying on the bottom or did you have to dig around for it?
George-CT
Everyone liked to climb around on it and it was about the only thing in there. It was and old granite quarry. I remember a couple of dives that we used the old instant heater trick. Just 1/4 inch wet suits and warm water down the chest for most part. That cold water is heck on the kidneys.... We were young then. I'm talking between 1956 and 75 for most part. Gear then was mostly US Divers, had just gone to a single hose aquamatic from a double hose Viking I think it was. Flooded out easy it seems. Most of my diving was for my father at the boat yard working on props, or cutting up lobster pot line off the shafts and keeping our lobster tanks free of seaweeds.
This was at the mouth of the Thames River so a fair amount of ocean weeds passed by it on both incoming and outgoing tides. LIke you today, winter or summer, hot or cold made little difference. Our pumps fed the lobster tanks, clams tanks and bait tanks.
We were not far from old Fort Griswold in Groton CT. I was always looking for cannon balls and stuff that might of came from there but never found anything. Sense then its been dredged many times for the Submarines to get up to the Navy Base beyond the Goldstar bridge. I used to like to hear them blow balist as they were coming in on Fridays and didn't want to wait for the bridge to open. They would run just enough to keep the decks awash and slip under the railroad bridge. These were all the old fleet type diesel rigs. Now they are all nukes. Fun times.......
Was that arrow head just laying on the bottom or did you have to dig around for it?
George-CT
Wayne in BC
New member
I am not 35 anymore, i am not.........
Then go hunt arrowheads
i am impressed buddy!
Then go hunt arrowheads
i am impressed buddy!
:Wayne in BC
New member
n/t
