Search and recovery in silt?

[Adam]

The gear has been recovered. I wish I could say that we found it while diving but that's not the case.

About 6 weeks after the gear sank it was found entangled in a dock on the west side of Spectacle Lake. Fortunately my name was on the gear and the person who found it wrote a hand written letter last week with her cell number.

The question remains why did it float back up. Here some of the theories:

I first thought the tank somehow leaked all the air and made the unit more buoyant. This was proven wrong as the tank still had 3000 psi

The lake probably turned over in late September when it was found. Could that have something to do with it. Probably not?

Maybe it didn't sink or came right back up. Maybe. Probably not as I watched it sink out of sight along with all my dreams and ambitions and could not reach it as I was too buoyant in the drysuit.

Lessons learned.

1. Pay attention
2. Everything always works out