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Spent 8 hours in the lake today, got a his and hers..

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BarnacleBill

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Cz20 freshW, found the large 10K men's yellow band, normally run disc @ zero, but the .22 cal cartridges were killing me, plus heavy iron infestation. Set disc to reject .22 @3 on disc dial, checked a Jeff and the 10K and was good to go.

Pulled the art deco dinner ring, 18K white gold w/ 3 pieces of ice out of a pile of iron. Rang mid-tone, checked on Fisher Excel ID later, displayed +5. Ring does not appear to be repro. Good day on the ranch!
 
Diamonds. That type of cut was discontinued in the 30's. They are called "mine cuts" and you can tell by the small table (top of the stone). If the stones check out real, and they should because I can't think of any reason to make artificial diamonds look like they were pre-1930, you have a very nice heirloom that someone is sick about. Probably a ring given to a grand daughter and then lost. Great stuff.

therick
 
I know very little about old jewelry, and your comments help out a great deal. This came from an area that has been inhabitated since circa 1850, and was down about 14 inches in the lake bottom. It comes from an area(patch) that yielded a 1908 IH & 1920 Merc last weekend, and they were down about the same depth, so I doubt it is a recent drop. That also weighs against it being a repro.

Thanks,
BarnacleBill
 
on the lake. But the junior bush pilots seem to land any damn place they please. You should see the boneheads on the jetski's scatter when they make an approach, kinda like watch'n a fox enter a hen house!:rofl:

BarnacleBill
 
Thanks for the reply, one more quick question, are you diving with scuba or snorkel or just waiding near the shore? I've been reading about this air pump thing you can get that runs on a car battery, but that sounds pretty involved and I think it's about a grand. Kinda steep unless your serious, but maybe that's a good deal.???
 
I am wading right now, but bought a Hooka or Hookah which you are referring to last winter. I have not used it yet because I believe in cleaning out the easy access areas first. Mine is gas operated and has 2 hoses that are 30 ft long. I am a NAUI certified diver since '74.

I strongly urge ANYONE considering the use of such a device to get certified as a Scuba diver. When things go wrong underwater, many times you get to make one mistake, your last one. And even though 30 ft is not very deep in regards to any compression issues, stir up the muck fanning for a target, get tangled in a dropped anchor rope line, pinch the Hookah hose, start to panic, you just can't belive how fast things can go south in a succession of events.

BarnacleBill
 
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Thankyou Barnacle. I couldn't agree with you more. Even though I haven't learned to use SCUBA yet I've been around the ocean all my life and I've had a few close calls my self in the surf, especially on a big day. But what your saying is right, even though it seems like small potatoes, i.e. gee, we're not too deep, or OH heck, I'm a great swimmer. Things can certainly go wrong and if panic strikes, your air supply dwindles considerably. I had that happent to me when I was at the peak of health at 15 years old, surfing, but I was out in some big winter storm surf and some huge waves ripped the board from my hands and I was held down too long, I thought. Most of it ended up being the panic factor, and I honestly think the only thing that may have saved me from possible drowning was, I stopped, and thought, You have to take it one wave at a time till you get in. It still was pretty scary, but I managed to get in, but for the first time in my life, I actually sat down on the shore, toatlly waisted and thought about how close a call it was. That was truly a heavy duty experience for me. One of the problems with surfing is when you wipe out, you can get so disoriented you don't know if your swimming to the surface or to the bottom, and I've done both. I hope anybody considering water work would consider these issues.
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