Another 1920's vehicle discovered and artifact recovered at the "Deep Flooded Mine" 9-20-15
Posted by Dan Wright on 9/22/2015, 8:41 pm
Milestone reached on September 20th, 2015 in our exploration of the "Deep Flooded Mine" aka Tilly Foster Mine. My 50th dive, in 36 days of dive operations. While Bob Thomas and I searched over the the 1955 Chevy, I investigated the suspected convertible that I videotaped a few weeks back, low and behold there is another vehicle on top of that one, with the nose pointing straight down. This vehicle is also vintage 1920's. I pointed out the left tail light to Bob, and he salvaged it right away, and hand carried it all the way back, since he had no goody bag. John Eells salvaged a couple more hubcaps from the other 1920's vehicles during this time. Teddy Garlock and Neil Freeland checked out a few cars at 140' range that Teddy found back in May. On this day we had four eCCR's diving! I think this is the most at once. Great day overall!
I have not stopped, it's just this mine's exploration is pretty extensive. Extremely time consuming because some of these factors: Difficult access to the site (now have cleared a path by removing boulders and cutting down trees), loading in down the stairwell (now have a trolley system driven by an electric winch), safety, (have removed some dangerous obstacles from the water, and added numerous guide lines at depth), discovering and exploring side tunnels, discovering and investigating wreckage (safe recovery from last fall), deep diving with five dives over 300', and trying to push the limits in exposure gear for the benefit of corporate supporters. Not the mention actually searching for a murder victim. As you can see, it's quite a handful.
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on 9/22/2015, 8:41 pm
