On the seabed under your marina berth

Our prop.:chargrined:

If not under our berth, somewhere in a line between our berth and the boat diagonally across from us that we nearly hit when, thirty seconds after setting off, we suddenly encountered a lack of oomph in the propulsion department.
 
chinita said:
.....forgot to mention, about 150 teaspoons jettisoned with the soapy washing up water in the bowl.
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You must have had a pair of randy ladles breeding like rabbits to have that many!

Reading all these sob stories, it seems to me that marinas should keep a trained retrieval octopus to send down after all this stuff...

Mike.
 
mjcoon said:
You must have had a pair of randy ladles breeding like rabbits to have that many!

Reading all these sob stories, it seems to me that marinas should keep a trained retrieval octopus to send down after all this stuff...

Mike.
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Well, this is over a period of about 20 years!

BTW, there is money to be made by snorkelling for lost golf balls in water traps. I suggested this to my nine year old. He was very keen; not so his mother though :(
 
Have non of you got 'seasearcher' magnets? They are good and even though things like Leathermans are stainless, they are still magnetic.
 
Cup, plate, bowl, specs, two stainless boat cover poles (lost at different times), 14mm spanner and various other tools, couple (at least) shackles, selden mast cover plate, numerous bolts, nuts and screws. Boat hook - twice recovered then lost third time inexplicably never to be found ('Bermuda' triangle ? or stolen by seahorses?).
 
I'm not quite as nerdy as this will make me sound, but from all these entries, it sounds like there could be employment for a remote-control miniature submersible. A couple of thrusters, neutral buoyancy, a camera, light and a grab-arm, controlled from the deck, by wire. It wouldn't be popular with local dive-teams, but occasionally useful, if not profitable.

Fun for looking at life on the seabed (in some places) too, and for inspecting the hull.
 
dancrane said:
I'm not quite as nerdy as this will make me sound, but from all these entries, it sounds like there could be employment for a remote-control miniature submersible. A couple of thrusters, neutral buoyancy, a camera, light and a grab-arm, controlled from the deck, by wire. It wouldn't be popular with local dive-teams, but occasionally useful, if not profitable.

Fun for looking at life on the seabed (in some places) too, and for inspecting the hull.
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They are available but very expensive.It would be far cheaper to make something using underwater camera, a few dive torches and some sort of scoop. Lets get inventive.
 
single said:
...far cheaper to make something using underwater camera, a few dive torches and some sort of scoop. Lets get inventive.
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Like it! How about a telescopic shower-curtain pole...or several, allowing for whatever depth...dive torches strapped to the end, camera pointing downwards, handy hook attached.

Wires go up the tubes to give an image on deck while you reach over the guardrails, groping around without donning wetsuit or paying for 3 beefy divers to get drunk that evening...
 
single said:
Have non of you got 'seasearcher' magnets? They are good and even though things like Leathermans are stainless, they are still magnetic.
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See post number 4 :)

The £25 for the Sea Searcher was as nothing given the price of what I'd dropped. It felt like a medical emergency as I frantically phoned Force 4 and they agreed to stay open an extra ten minutes while I leapt in the car and raced round to buy the magnet. Then an anxious half an hour on the pontoon trawling the magnet back and forth fishing for it - turns out even an anchor can "fly" several metres on its way down through the water, it wasn't directly under the bow roller it had fallen off.

Since I now have the solution stowed on board (right in the tip of the bow to be away from compasses), I should (touch wood) be immune from dropping things overboard in harbour in future :)

Pete
 
dancrane said:
Like it! How about a telescopic shower-curtain pole...or several, allowing for whatever depth...dive torches strapped to the end, camera pointing downwards, handy hook attached.

Wires go up the tubes to give an image on deck while you reach over the guardrails, groping around without donning wetsuit or paying for 3 beefy divers to get drunk that evening...
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You need Bob!
http://www.svseeker.com/building_bob.htm
 
I knew it could be done. Might be quite fun to discreetly put the machine overboard in each marina you visit, letting it crawl around showing what's down there. :)
 
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