Hey Peg leg
That is not my ROV, (wish it was). This is really a Yahoo group. You need to register and login. There is a wealth of information in the database (over 30000 messages). There are several files and photos of all kind of ROV that are being built. Mine is a square, has a camera, and has a 100-foot umbilical cable.
I read all the stories here and only dream of diving in the ocean. My spot of the world is the lakes of northern Indiana. I figure this is the last frontier for finding treasure and keeping it. It may be cannon, Al Capone boat, or a covered wagon that fell into the lake when it was crossing in the winter. I have been diving since I was 16. Only made it to the ocean once to dive. A few other times I was just checking the shorelines. Not many predators in the lake would hurt one. The main ones are the boats and skidoos.
Most of those 31 years I just look and felt in the muck for thing, mostly bottles. Got me a Fishers Pulse 8x about 5 years ago. Man was that ever a dream come true. Haven’t found much. Only get to go on weekend. Got a job, wife, and three kids. Started building the ROV at the beginning of the summer. Almost done, just need to check that my camera is sealed and then it time to put it in the bathtub to work on the ballasts. I figure I’ll spend a lot of time in the fall winter and spring locating things and then dive down to them to do further investigation in the warmer months.
Lot of advantage diving in the lakes, no mean sea creatures, no current, some things get well preserved in the muck, salt is not a factor, untouched in the deeper water (most of the metal detector only go as deep as there chest), not to many people interested in salvage, most divers want clear water and dive to object put down there by divers to dive to. Lot of disadvantage, probably won’t find any Spanish gold (maybe some gold coins), water visibility is from zero to 3 ft most of the time, a lot of muck, branches and beer cans, may find a few things I don’t want to find, boats always getting to close just see what going on.
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