ICSD New Shipwreck Challenge...

[DetectorGuy]

The theme of the day today WAS "Shock and Awe"! Lightning for the shock and two more boats found today for awe!
Today my dive buddy Nate and I went back to Blue Lake to look for that boatlift again. The day started out nice, and then about 9:00 the weather turned to crap quickly. Heavy rains and lots of lightning raised our eyebrows more than once. Nate told me that if he gets hit by lightning... Make sure to let the folks at MNSCUBA know that he was "Shock and Awe" right up to the end. We joked about being in a rubber boat anyway, and with the Karma running so strong with Team Honey Badger, we could probably handle a couple of strikes from lightning. The viz was worse than last weekend  at only about 3'. We didn't find the boatlift but I found 2 more boats. One was really old and not much left and the other was really, really old and was in worse shape than the first. We figured that both of these boats are over 100 years old. The first boat was about 100' towards the boat landing from one of the 2 boats Nate found last weekend. It had a complete bottom but the sides of the hull only had about 6" high sides. This boat is really fragile and sitting in about 20' deep water. The bottom here is about 2' deep fluffy silt. Here are the coords to the first boat I found today:
N45 28.254' W93 29.923'

Here is a link to the video if this little boat:


The second boat I found today was North of the landing and just off Lundeen's Point. It was sitting in 12' of water and it's really a wreck (see how I did that?...) The whole floor of the boat is there and the whole transom but only one 3" high board on the port side. There was one hefty ring mounted in the center of the transom. This area is a hard bottom and there are a few logs near by. The coords to this wrecked wreck are:
N45 28.559' W93 30.052'

Here is a link to the video of this boat: