Nailer99 wrote:I live near shilshole.....but the questions remain....how deep and where? \:D/
well...seeing as how you live near shilshole, you can keep your eyes open for coast guard or environmental boats that come back to check out the spot and do a little triangulation from known points on the beach. :) i have the charts to figure out depth or could take my boat out there and just look at the sounder.
i guess i am just curious how "near" to shilshole marina. it would be cool to have a little boat beach dive there. the barges are too far to do from shore. of course the walk to the water sucks at golden gardens.
lamont wrote:there should be coast guard records of the lat/long where the distress call was made from, but i have no idea how to find them...
Well, if the boat had a DSC radio interfaced with their GPS, then maybe. And if that is the case, then lots of other boats in the area will have a record as well. :) However, a lot of these older wood boats seem to not have super fancy updated electronics...particularly ones that are kept in such pristine shape that they sink at shilshole. (just kidding all your wood boat lovers!)
However, I imagine it is standard coast guard procedure to track their routes, mark waypoints, or report their position when responding to an incident....so for instance an environmental impact survey can be done later to figure out of the fuel tanks are leaking etc. That is probably hard to get ahold of unless you know someone.
IF it is in shallow enough water to be a navigation hazard (fat chance) then if they didn't pull it back up, it would at least eventually end up on NOAA's nautical charts...but I have a feeling that is unlikely.
"300 yards west of Shilshole Bay"
wow. that is so helpful. i assume they mean the marina. so that is promising. but they are probably talking about 300 yards off the break-water...and it is a BIG, LONG breakwater...so access kindof sucks.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/341 ... ource=mypi
okay, so I figured I would try to be resourceful. i composited a chart with depths measured in ft (at mean high-low or something like that) and augmented it with google earth photo that had a scale on it (since the chart tool I had handy doesn't have an electronic divider built in. Looks very promising if the report of 300 yards is accurate. That is almost all recreational water, and pretty shallow mostly depending on where it went down....assuming I am right about them talking about off the breakwater.
composite
marked off the distance on this one