ICSD New Shipwreck Challenge...

[DetectorGuy]

Nate and I went diving yesterday in Grindstone Lake in Pine County. We didn't find any wrecks but we did find an incredible dive site that I think we'll name "Twang", I'll explain the "Twang" thing in a minute... On the East side of the lake we found a nice wall that drops from 7' down to 65' deep. This in not just a vertical wall but there are caverns in the side of the wall that go in at least 12' The openings are small at only 4' x 4' but there are probably some bigger ones that we didn't see. It was kinda mooky as the vis was only 4' at the surface, but it opened up to 8' viz at 20' deep and up to 15' viz at 45' deep. I didn't have my finger spool with so I didn't go too far in these little caverns. Once in a while on the ascent, I found myself under a shelf and my SAC rate went to hell for a bit. We ended up finding some loot. Nate found a nice downrigger with a steel cable connecting the weight to it. He also found a couple lures. I found a fishing pole, a fillet knife, an anchor, and a couple lures.

I was swimming along looking for treasure on the ledges and I ran into this thin steel cable... TWANG! I saw it was running vertical so I gave a tug both directions on it, and thought Nate was at the top end of it. I followed it up to the top and found Nates lift bag attached to the crank end of the down rigger. I followed the steel cable down and found the weight wedged in a crevice with the fishing pole about 15' away. I pulled the weight out of the crevice and set it on a flat ledge and grabbed the fishing pole. The visibility wasn't the greatest but I will definitely go back and explore it some more. I forgot my GPS in Nates truck so I will need to post the coordinates to this weird dive site later. The video is kinda cool in a murky/spooky kind of way... (Mooky) 

Here is a link to the video: