Sunday, May 05, 2013

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Post Hurricane Sandy ~Beach Sweep #2~



The Point Pleasant First-aid Rescue Dive Team performed a 2nd sweep of the surf area of Jenkinson's before the upcoming holiday and beach season...
 
More photos and text at team website...

Sunday, April 28, 2013

BOS goes with $.03 cents per $100 ~Operation Drumbeat~


Over at Operation Drumbeat they take a look at the Augusta County Supervisors who decided on a $.03 cent per $100 property value TAX INCREASE and debate the history behind it along with the flip-flopping by some of the Supervisors...

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Historical Bottle Diggers of Virginia Show ~2013~







The Dive Team attended and had a display table at the recent bottle show of the Historical Bottle Diggers of Virginia in Harrisonburg, Virginia...




Our display table had a collection including artifacts from numerous shipwrecks along the New Jersey shore, river and tidal zones, and of course bottles found while diving. Special emphasis showed how antique bottles are found by way of "Underwater Bottle Digging" and the condition they are found in. Several visitors to the table stated that they found this tactic very interesting and one person contrasted it to his tactic of "Digging bottles with his debit card" on e-bay...

Entire posting with more text and photos here...




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Thursday, March 14, 2013

"Swept Away" Rescue Dive Team



The Point Pleasant Rescue Dive Team continues to assist those who were victims of hurricane Sandy. Here they assist a family retrieve personal items from their house that was ripped from its foundation and floated down river.....
Photo and text found here: Swept Away