Laura, I probably dived with your mother. I have a different name. I have learned about two other wrecks, Dauntless and Flyer. A hint. The woman who told me the name of the wreck is a diver and published author.
-Curt
When we dived it Betty called it the Utopia. I thought it would be easy because she published it one of her books and it was frequently dived in the 80's, although not much was left. I was past the artifact collecting stage, but stuff just disappeared. How about an easier pair of wrecks - a tug towing a clipper ship which grounded off the west side of San Juan Island early in the 20th century. The clipper ship is still dived (My god-grandson did it last week) and the tug was salvaged and sank later.
-Curt
Thanks Curt, we do need to get together one of these days (maybe in the San Juan's).
Keeping with Curt's San Juan Islands Wreck Diving theme, I'll start with a passenger vessel that was built in Seattle in 1908. At the time she was built, she was billed as the fastest passenger vessel in the world. For decades she carried passengers throughout the San Juan islands. She then worked ferrying workers to the Harbor Island shipyard for the Moran Family (Rosario Resort, Orcas Island). Eventually, she was abandoned and turned into a floating church in the San Juan's.
Today, she's stitting on the bottom in a protected harbor, a fascinating bit of history that only a few lucky divers get to visit.
boydski wrote:Thanks Curt, we do need to get together one of these days (maybe in the San Juan's).
Keeping with Curt's San Juan Islands Wreck Diving theme, I'll start with a passenger vessel that was built in Seattle in 1908. At the time she was built, she was billed as the fastest passenger vessel in the world. For decades she carried passengers throughout the San Juan islands. She then worked ferrying workers to the Harbor Island shipyard for the Moran Family (Rosario Resort, Orcas Island). Eventually, she was abandoned and turned into a floating church in the San Juan's.
Today, she's stitting on the bottom in a protected harbor, a fascinating bit of history that only a few lucky divers get to visit.
M/V Speeder?
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
Excellent work! It was in fact the Saint Speeder that is now sitting on the bottom of Reid Harbor on Stuart Island in the San Juan Islands. This wreck is also known as the Reid Harbor Wreck.
I needed the help of your website to figure out that one >.< I'm not that great with wrecks....so Im going to move the subject back to biology....
I am a rare sight in the Puget Sound but I have been spotted at both Redondo and Point Hudson, my mother always told me that I was not fat... I was only big boned...yet she said that to my 300 million brothers and sisters as well....What am I?
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
citycatred wrote:I needed the help of your website to figure out that one >.< I'm not that great with wrecks....so Im going to move the subject back to biology....
I am a rare sight in the Puget Sound but I have been spotted at both Redondo and Point Hudson, my mother always told me that I was not fat... I was only big boned...yet she said that to my 300 million brothers and sisters as well....What am I?
citycatred wrote:I needed the help of your website to figure out that one >.< I'm not that great with wrecks....so Im going to move the subject back to biology....
I am a rare sight in the Puget Sound but I have been spotted at both Redondo and Point Hudson, my mother always told me that I was not fat... I was only big boned...yet she said that to my 300 million brothers and sisters as well....What am I?
Too easy...mola mola!
Correct =^.^= Did you know that some scientists actually consider the mola mola planktonic, since they are normally observed using the water currents to drift instead of actually swimming?
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
[quote="citycatred] Did you know that some scientists actually consider the mola mola planktonic, since they are normally observed using the water currents to drift instead of actually swimming?[/quote]
Especially after sea lions have bitten off their dorsal and ventral fins. A gruesome sight. I can't help but feel sorry for the sunfish.
-Curt
oldsalt wrote:[quote="citycatred] Did you know that some scientists actually consider the mola mola planktonic, since they are normally observed using the water currents to drift instead of actually swimming?
Especially after sea lions have bitten off their dorsal and ventral fins. A gruesome sight. I can't help but feel sorry for the sunfish.
-Curt[/quote][/quote]
Yeah there is a youtube video out there of a mola mola divers found without its fins, it pretty much just sinks to the sea floor and waits to get eaten by sea stars....that just sucks
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
oldsalt wrote:[quote="citycatred] Did you know that some scientists actually consider the mola mola planktonic, since they are normally observed using the water currents to drift instead of actually swimming?
Especially after sea lions have bitten off their dorsal and ventral fins. A gruesome sight. I can't help but feel sorry for the sunfish.
-Curt
[/quote]
Yeah there is a youtube video out there of a mola mola divers found without its fins, it pretty much just sinks to the sea floor and waits to get eaten by sea stars....that just sucks[/quote][/quote][/quote]
Well THAT'S a lovely thought . . .
Damn. I guess I need to come up with a question now, eh?
oldsalt wrote:[quote="citycatred] Did you know that some scientists actually consider the mola mola planktonic, since they are normally observed using the water currents to drift instead of actually swimming?
Especially after sea lions have bitten off their dorsal and ventral fins. A gruesome sight. I can't help but feel sorry for the sunfish.
-Curt
Yeah there is a youtube video out there of a mola mola divers found without its fins, it pretty much just sinks to the sea floor and waits to get eaten by sea stars....that just sucks[/quote][/quote][/quote]
Well THAT'S a lovely thought . . .
[/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote]
How about we turn that thought into an actual experience =^.^= heres the video [youtube]http://youtu.be/FGS8yBQ5Yt8[/youtube]
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
defied wrote:Is that the question? If so, then... "yes"...
D
We already know you are sick and wrong defied
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
And now, my question:
How many hyperbaric treatment centers are there in Washington State? (And yes, I'm including non-public ones.)
17
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel