DR Adventures - Diving/Shipwreck museum in a house!

[ScubaFinder]

Where to start with this one. You know how buying an old fisherman a bottle of rum can often turn up information? Well, one got me an invitation to a wealthy guys house to view some of his diving and shipwreck things. I didn't know what to expect, but I wasn't let down...a bar in his house almost completely built from and decorated with shipwreck artifacts...his living room was like a Scuba Museum...old school.

Anyhow, the pics speak for themselves, and there are a lot of them. Really cool day today.....

Jason

 

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[rgecy]

Hey, do you think you could do a little better at rotating those images before you post them! What are you a newbie?

Cool picts bud! I know you are having the time of your life down there. Wish I was with you!

Were those sea turtle heads on the shelf?

Robert

 

[ScubaFinder]

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[ScubaFinder]

Robert, I told you I had been drinking rum all day with old local fishermen, what did you expect? I'm not a good enough rum drinker to try and hang with those guys...seriously!

Yep, turtle heads, he had a lot of neat fossils and sharks teeth too, along with some other things that he didn't want photographed.

 

[MORE AND BEYOND OSSY]

Hi Jason, love the photos, I see your friend is still Loyal to Castile and Leon. Good size cannon ball, do you know the weight?
Thanks for posting Jason, he has some great stuff !
Sam

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Thanks jason !HO HO HO and a bottle of rum, this guy has the goods!I like the old johnson outboard

 

[ScubaFinder]

Me too Relic, here is another one which I think is even older.

 

[ScubaDude]

That is quite the museum. I love the Taino stuff.

Any clue how old the hand crank compressors are?

Cool stuff, thanks for the pics Jason.

 

[wwwtimmcp]

love the old diver air supply pumps, thanks for sharing. I have a few old 72 cubic foot scuba tanks in my basement.

 

[ScubaFinder]

Brad, I've been trying to look that up....he just said "These were the first ones"...meaning ever I guess. I have to admit that my SCUBA history knowledge is lacking a bit. I'm betting someone on here can give us an idea of the time period of them. He did have some really kick butt Taino pieces, I'm the proud owner of several now two...but not quite of that caliber.

An interesting note...the thing that looks like an old fireplace bellows is actually an early fog horn. The brass cone is like a megaphone for it, quite loud and really.....really....eerie sounding.

 

[Chagy]

Bro, Thanks for sharing!!!!!

Man dose Taino pieces belong in a museum for future generations to learn and enjoy..... dose pieces could go back to the early 1400s This things are priceless........The Tainos were the first habitants of the Greater Antilles..In Puerto Rico we honor the Tainos and we still preserve some of their parks and everything related to them...Some Puertorricans proudly call then selves Tainos since we know those are our roots......Well you know also mixed with Spaniards and African slaves.....LOL

One would be amazed by what some people have in their houses.....I remember as a kid that a friend of mine had a Taino totem as a door stopper...It was a heavy rock so they used it to stop the door from closing with the wind........That goes to show how ignorant some people can be...

A few years ago while walking in the streets of Cartagena Colombia I saw this bar that looked like a shipwreck museum....So obviously I had to go in for a cold beer...lol... once inside I saw a glass display
that had all kind of artefacts.....there was a pottery bowl that seemed like if it had something inside so I got closer to look and guess what was inside the bowl.....Pieces of 8.....So I asked the bartender what was that all about he said I don’t know the owner like to collect those things...So I asked him if the owner was there and he pointed out this flashy guy with a Panama Jack hat wearing a white guayabera and a piece of 8 hanging from his neck...So I walked over to the guy and asked him about the coins and artifacts.....He said that a few years ago he found this wreck in about 30 feet of water and that every year in March he would go back and get as much coins and artifacts as he could....That he would keep the nicer coins and sold the others.....most of the coins where dated 1704...

 

[signumops]

The Tiano pieces were excellent, but the hats were fantastic! Those puppies are hard to come by at less than five grand a piece. The four-bolt jobber was different, and that copper stove-pipe was definitely a keeper.

The statuary looked like it might be Chimu instead of Tiano(?). I have some of both.

Tell the host that we appreciated his collection. Thanks again Jason.

ps. I would think you might find some gold Tiano pieces somewhere along the north shore in D.R. if any still exist.

 

[SEAHUNTER]

Hi Jason
Thanks for sharing the pictures with us. What a great house. I would give anything for a collection like that. What a great way to live, seeing all that every morning when you wake up.

Thanks again.
Seahunter

Now how about some more video's?

 

[ScubaFinder]

Terry, I have a few Taino sites I look at now and then when I have time. Lots of incredible pottery, but no gold yet from them. I'll snap some more pics of some of my newer pieces soon. Here are a few of them.

Scott, he indeed lives well. I'll make sure you get a tour of this place when you are here...whenever that may be. I have more videos, but I'm not at liberty to post them yet. Soon.

 

[Trond]

Beautiful photos.

 

[diverlynn]

Jason,
Looks like you walked into a divers dream! Some of the pottery looks like some of the pieces I found in the antique stores in Peru, unfortunately your not allowed to remove them from the country, they were dirt cheap.
Show us more! Too cool!

diverlynn

 

[belizeanpirate]

Absolutely fantastic! I dream of having a place like that one day. Here in Belize a lot of people have Mayan artifacts in their houses. One guy named Bols put together a giant cave full of Mayan artifacts near his house in the Pine Ridge and charges tourists admission to see it. Great stuff in his cave. The scuba stuff and the outboards are great. Brings a smile to my face. Thanks!