ICSD New Shipwreck Challenge...

[DetectorGuy]

I remember riding in the truck by Roosevelt Lake on the way to our cabin in Longville when I was a little kid, and my parents told me about how the tornado went through there and pitched the cabins in the lake. I knew that very minute that if I ever learned to dive, I would need to check out that lake. It felt different diving in Roosevelt after doing so much research and talking to the oldsters in town that remember the day. I was partly sad for the two people that drown when the cabins they were in blew in the lake, Partly sad for the two fishermen that drown while fishing near the Narrows when the tornado picked up their boat and flipped it. I was partly proud of Bill Mathies thinking that even back in '69 he was actively diving, and he was the one to recover two of the bodies from this lake. Partly proud to be swimming in the same lake as PADI #79 had over 41 years earlier. I was a little bit mad at myself for grabbing Max's leg when he wasn't looking, just for a laugh. I hope he doesn't hold that against me for long. Maybe we missed the heaviest hit area, but I was thinking that there would have been more debris. I guess the cabins weren't new in 1969, and the years have rotted the boards into the silt.