Last night I got ready to go to a boating party meet up and on the way down I get a call about a pair of prescription glasses in Mac Ray harbor. So I go down, suit up and fetch the glasses. I then get a call about a pair of prescription glasses at Fisher Bay. I go to my marina, load up my boat and head out to Fisher. I put my tank on and realize I didn't take my dive float or flag. OOPS. I walk over to the boats that are tied together and go down. Glasses are behind another boat in their group and not where they thought. I get them get back to my marina and change to go to the meet up. WRONG! I get a call about a phone at Sun Dog. I go and get that and also get a call about an isinglass window at Beacon Cove. I am going there and get a call about another boat canvas in a canal by Bele Maer. Tell them I will be there after Beacon Cove. I get the window from there and get to the canal. No canvas to be found anywhere near their boat. So I get changed and get to Deckers right at 10pm, I think the party was over by then because there was nobody that I recognized. Had some fries and ice tea and left.
First call this morning was a rope around a propeller in another canal off Jefferson. I get there and it is a long hike through is back yard. I untangle the rope from his starboard duoprop and then go relax on my boat till a scheduled recovery at noon at Bele Maer. I go there and meet the couple. A huge gold ring was lost last season along with a couple pair of sunglasses. I go down with my trusty metal detector and start looking. I get some makeup, some sort of eyelash curlers, a quarter and then the ring. Then I find a pair of sunglasses, a hose nozzle, a dock rope, and a few other odds and ends. I go to the back of the boat and look for glasses but only find a dock brush, a manual West Marine bailer, and a bunch of junk. I run out of air on that tank and go back up. They are happy with what I found but are missing an expensive pair of sunglasses. I decide to go down again just for fun. I find the glasses to the amazement of a few boaters.
Last call today was a phone at Riverside marina in Detroit. She wasn't sure if she even lost her phone in it but thought she did. I looked on one side of the gas dock and nothing. Went to the other side in the middle and nothing except a full can of some drink that had been there forever. So I go down to the end of the dock and feel a phone! I pick it up and it lights up! SUCCESS! Another happy boater and the 1st mate to the Detroit River Peddle Boats.
A tiring and fun weekend. I did go out to an old beach and play for a little while. I found a bath house tag, an old butter knife, a 1927 buffalo nickel, a 1943 merc dime and a 1900 Canadian quarter. Still a but chilly to play.
First call this morning was a rope around a propeller in another canal off Jefferson. I get there and it is a long hike through is back yard. I untangle the rope from his starboard duoprop and then go relax on my boat till a scheduled recovery at noon at Bele Maer. I go there and meet the couple. A huge gold ring was lost last season along with a couple pair of sunglasses. I go down with my trusty metal detector and start looking. I get some makeup, some sort of eyelash curlers, a quarter and then the ring. Then I find a pair of sunglasses, a hose nozzle, a dock rope, and a few other odds and ends. I go to the back of the boat and look for glasses but only find a dock brush, a manual West Marine bailer, and a bunch of junk. I run out of air on that tank and go back up. They are happy with what I found but are missing an expensive pair of sunglasses. I decide to go down again just for fun. I find the glasses to the amazement of a few boaters.
Last call today was a phone at Riverside marina in Detroit. She wasn't sure if she even lost her phone in it but thought she did. I looked on one side of the gas dock and nothing. Went to the other side in the middle and nothing except a full can of some drink that had been there forever. So I go down to the end of the dock and feel a phone! I pick it up and it lights up! SUCCESS! Another happy boater and the 1st mate to the Detroit River Peddle Boats.
A tiring and fun weekend. I did go out to an old beach and play for a little while. I found a bath house tag, an old butter knife, a 1927 buffalo nickel, a 1943 merc dime and a 1900 Canadian quarter. Still a but chilly to play.
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I hate to break this to you but in case you didn't know you are no where near retired. 
