The "Four Daughters" sunk on it's maiden voyage in January '03. It was a 3 million dollar clam boat. The underwriter of the insurance policy hired a salvage company to locate and attempt to raise the vessel. After spending a month and a half million dollars in an attempt during the winter to raise her, the insurance company threw in the towel and wrote her off as a total loss. She was turtled, with 10,000 gallons of diesel fuel, and she was bouncing along the sand. She moved from her last known GPS numbers, but we had them to work with and we did a search pattern and within a couple hours had her on our depth finder. She had moved over a mile from the last known numbers. Several other captains claimed to have the numbers from the salvage company, but those are not correct. We set out with three divers and the captain in September 2005, two of us dove the wreck twice once we anchored on her. I shot video the first dive in and attempt to document the "Four Daughters", and the second dive I located and salvaged a life ring with the name inscribed as a positive ID. I sent a copy of the video to the ship builder, and they also confirmed it was the one they just built. Now the wreck has settled deeper in the sand, and there is no direct access to the wheelhouse any longer, but you can get into the galley and there you can move to other parts of the clam boat, but it is tight passage.
Since it was my first virgin wreck, it is special to me, and I have visited her eight times over the years, on every trip made to her. My buddy from the first dive to her, Doug Card, has gone with me seven times. Videos on Utube are available to see, just key in my username wcs563, and then you will see some 15 videos I have uploaded, and the "Four D's" appear twice, one is the first dive to her, the second video is from the seventh.
Thanks for you interest.....
-Dan
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