Boat over at 20MM LOTO?
07-27-2022 | 10:39 AM
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07-28-2022 | 01:30 PM
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Anyone know if you have to attempt to recover the boat due to possible environmental impact from fuel/oil leaks? I remember back in the early 2000's when that 24 HTM rolled and disintegrated right in front of us on the spectator line at the Shootout and I believe the guy wanted to retrieve his engine (which went cartwheeling down the lake...crazy to see). If memory serves someone stated it would be near impossible to recover it due to the fact that the trees were just topped in that area before the lake flooded and it would be a maze of tall stumps down there in 60 - 70 feet of water. I've seen cruisers get anchors tangled up in that area back when the Shootout was in front of Shooters 21 and have to cut rope/chain.
07-28-2022 | 01:47 PM
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NOT MY STORY BUT HEARD FROM SALVAGE DIVER TIM "The Walrus" (while saving one of my phones for the nth time):
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So this really nice newer boat is running in the Shootout back when it was at MM 21. Boat breaks apart (as mentioned above) and engine goes into the deep. Me and my crew waited the requisite time for it to become abandoned property then went looking for it. We had a fairly large search area and it was on the main channel. Well, we ran a very long and deep conductive wire off the back of our boat and sunk it to the bottom. We created a perimeter and started trolling deep with it - (*me looking at him quizzically*) - Oh, we hooked the other end of the wire up to our boat horn such that whenever the wire on the Lake floor encountered something metal on the bottom, the horn would go off and we would investigate. Found the engine fairly easily, brought it to the surface but kept it below water. Contacted the previous owner who was ecstatic and told us where and when to meet him at his dock. We went over there (with engine still submerged) and he could not thank us enough. Just when he was thinking aloud about how much to pay us for our services/tip us for recovering his engine, we gently let him know that WAS his engine before it became abandoned property and now it was our engine but we would sell it to him for a reasonable price. He didn't pay new engine price, but he did pay new engine salvaged from the deep price.
(paraphrasing)
So this really nice newer boat is running in the Shootout back when it was at MM 21. Boat breaks apart (as mentioned above) and engine goes into the deep. Me and my crew waited the requisite time for it to become abandoned property then went looking for it. We had a fairly large search area and it was on the main channel. Well, we ran a very long and deep conductive wire off the back of our boat and sunk it to the bottom. We created a perimeter and started trolling deep with it - (*me looking at him quizzically*) - Oh, we hooked the other end of the wire up to our boat horn such that whenever the wire on the Lake floor encountered something metal on the bottom, the horn would go off and we would investigate. Found the engine fairly easily, brought it to the surface but kept it below water. Contacted the previous owner who was ecstatic and told us where and when to meet him at his dock. We went over there (with engine still submerged) and he could not thank us enough. Just when he was thinking aloud about how much to pay us for our services/tip us for recovering his engine, we gently let him know that WAS his engine before it became abandoned property and now it was our engine but we would sell it to him for a reasonable price. He didn't pay new engine price, but he did pay new engine salvaged from the deep price.
07-28-2022 | 03:25 PM
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Anyone know if you have to attempt to recover the boat due to possible environmental impact from fuel/oil leaks? I remember back in the early 2000's when that 24 HTM rolled and disintegrated right in front of us on the spectator line at the Shootout and I believe the guy wanted to retrieve his engine (which went cartwheeling down the lake...crazy to see). If memory serves someone stated it would be near impossible to recover it due to the fact that the trees were just topped in that area before the lake flooded and it would be a maze of tall stumps down there in 60 - 70 feet of water. I've seen cruisers get anchors tangled up in that area back when the Shootout was in front of Shooters 21 and have to cut rope/chain.
07-28-2022 | 05:29 PM
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Wow!
Never thought of that.
Never thought of that.
NOT MY STORY BUT HEARD FROM SALVAGE DIVER TIM "The Walrus" (while saving one of my phones for the nth time):
(paraphrasing)
So this really nice newer boat is running in the Shootout back when it was at MM 21. Boat breaks apart (as mentioned above) and engine goes into the deep. Me and my crew waited the requisite time for it to become abandoned property then went looking for it. We had a fairly large search area and it was on the main channel. Well, we ran a very long and deep conductive wire off the back of our boat and sunk it to the bottom. We created a perimeter and started trolling deep with it - (*me looking at him quizzically*) - Oh, we hooked the other end of the wire up to our boat horn such that whenever the wire on the Lake floor encountered something metal on the bottom, the horn would go off and we would investigate. Found the engine fairly easily, brought it to the surface but kept it below water. Contacted the previous owner who was ecstatic and told us where and when to meet him at his dock. We went over there (with engine still submerged) and he could not thank us enough. Just when he was thinking aloud about how much to pay us for our services/tip us for recovering his engine, we gently let him know that WAS his engine before it became abandoned property and now it was our engine but we would sell it to him for a reasonable price. He didn't pay new engine price, but he did pay new engine salvaged from the deep price.
(paraphrasing)
So this really nice newer boat is running in the Shootout back when it was at MM 21. Boat breaks apart (as mentioned above) and engine goes into the deep. Me and my crew waited the requisite time for it to become abandoned property then went looking for it. We had a fairly large search area and it was on the main channel. Well, we ran a very long and deep conductive wire off the back of our boat and sunk it to the bottom. We created a perimeter and started trolling deep with it - (*me looking at him quizzically*) - Oh, we hooked the other end of the wire up to our boat horn such that whenever the wire on the Lake floor encountered something metal on the bottom, the horn would go off and we would investigate. Found the engine fairly easily, brought it to the surface but kept it below water. Contacted the previous owner who was ecstatic and told us where and when to meet him at his dock. We went over there (with engine still submerged) and he could not thank us enough. Just when he was thinking aloud about how much to pay us for our services/tip us for recovering his engine, we gently let him know that WAS his engine before it became abandoned property and now it was our engine but we would sell it to him for a reasonable price. He didn't pay new engine price, but he did pay new engine salvaged from the deep price.
07-29-2022 | 07:43 AM
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Lake Tow and Atlantis diving floated it up this morning and and brought it to shore. Wife noticed them out there about 7am and when I left at 9 they were pulling it to shore. Took a picture but with my phone it is a bit to far away.... Looking through the binoculars was cool to watch.
07-29-2022 | 04:16 PM
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I am not sure if it is the Water Rod boat. Someone who knows the guy should be able to answer the question? That being said, it sure does look like the same boat...
Here was from this morning in round 2, lifting the main part of the hull from the bottom and picture 2 is on road this am as well, appears to be yesterdays parts?
Here was from this morning in round 2, lifting the main part of the hull from the bottom and picture 2 is on road this am as well, appears to be yesterdays parts?
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07-30-2022 | 07:28 AM
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07-30-2022 | 08:16 AM
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Crazy how the top cap completely separated from the hull in one piece, something seems odd there from all the other wrecks over the years we've all seen no? I knew it had nice power in it, only saw a few pix on FB from when he had just gotten it. Bummer of a deal.
