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    Another dive season has come and gone

    I dove my last tanks of the season on Sunday. It was an adventure and a fitting end to the season. Didn't dive as much as I would have liked this year. Didn't find as much as I would have liked. My spots are getting picked. So, I will write about Sunday's adventure forthcoming....
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    Antique fishing reel - first dives of 2018

    I guess an antique fishing reel is not totally unexpected when you are scuba diving, but I'm ahead of my story. My boat wasn't running right last year, so, I thought the canoe would be safer for my first trip out. Plus, Coldwater was diving off a kayak. The canoe should work great. It has good...
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    L. Werrbach Milwaukee Wis

    I was thinking about beginning a thread with random dive log entries. When we were first scuba trained, we were taught to log our dives in a book. This way we could track our depth, bottom time, conditions, gear used, etc... One advantage of doing this is to calculate the levels of nitrogen...
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    Stories about when people ask for help recovering things.

    I'm going to start a new thread here because I think I can tell a bunch of these stories and I'm hoping other divers will have some as well. This thread kind of started after my 'clay beer spot' story discussing diving. Rather than copy what we wrote, you can see the thread (at the upcoming...
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    My Clay spot

    I am about to post a long story about diving for bottles. Fair warning if you've never seen my stories. They are long and rambling and wander off into seeing fish and the like. I will include some drawings and pictures. Also, this is going to take me awhile to get everything loaded up. Another...
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    Milwaukee Antique Bottle and Advertising Club Show - Feb 4th

    Hey All. I haven't been on here much but I wanted to pass on that the Milwaukee Show is earlier than normal this year and not in the same place. 46th annual show is February 4th at the Waukesha County Expo Center. Hope to see you there! Bob
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    Enamel sign found diving (earlier in the year)

    It is with some drool that I've observed some of you find cool old signs in the past. They certainly are neat, but they don't relate much to diving. Mainly because they never turn up. To be entirely honest, I have found over the years just a few little ones including an OLD DUTCH CLEANSER and a...
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    Unusual dive find

    On Tuesday, I went to one of my favorite dive spots over the years - Pewaukee Lake. I have over 500 tanks in there. I have pulled out a lot of stuff but I never found anything like this. Earlier in the year, I lost access to my entry area. Years ago, I signed a waiver releasing the local...
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    Sheehan amber hutch GA

    Now here is a pretty bottle on the bay. Love love love the fact that they haven't modified it in any way. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-BOTTLE-1880s-E-SHEEHAN-Augusta-Ga-OLD-Hutchinson-shape-/171100764309?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27d6667895
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    Nuked hutch

    Just found a freak on ebay (from my neck of the woods) about 15 minutes before it closes. Unfortunately, this person is being rewarded by multiple bidders driving the price up. No mention of the fact that this is a Frankenstein...
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    An interesting thing happened while diving

    UGH! I just spent at least a half an hour typing in what I thought was an interesting dive story. I got timed out and lost it all because I didn't save it. That blows! I'll tell this story tomorrow.
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    Any guesses as to what I found?

    This is neat. Any ideas?
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    I can't believe I found one!

    Wow! Nice day diving for me. I ran some errands and picked up my tanks from both hydrostatic and visual inspections. Cost me over $116 on the way. We were getting a late start, so we needed to hustle to get two tanks in.
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    Bud vase? and other dive finds.

    It's been fun getting out diving and seeing my buddies. Nine tanks in. Lots of beers but nothing great yet (one near miss). Wonder if this was a bud vase? Nice art work on it especially considering it is very thin glass.
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    My first dive of 2013

    Hey everybody, Finally got underwater today. I knew (from where I went) that I was not going to find anything great unless I was lucky, but I did okay, I guess. Long winter this year really slowed up the season. Last weekend, we finally planned an outing but the weather cooled down...
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    Is this ink that good? Apple green

    Sure it's pretty and pontilled. But it has no embossing. http://www.ebay.com/itm/EXTREMELY-RARE-OPEN-PONTIL-APPLE-GREEN-INK-/121099044492?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c3210c68c
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    Remember that Chero picture?

    Remember T D's picture of those Chero bottles all in a line along a fence post? That picture was totally awesome. It is one of my absolute favorites that anyone here has taken. And I say this with all due respect to Rory (Road Dog) who takes the most gorgeous pictures ever of his crude pontilled...
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    Oxymoron bottle? Liquid powder

    Isn't it contradictory to have liquid powder? Maybe they didn't have a term for face cream yet? Is this any good?
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    anyone want to analyze my dream?

    Last night I went (in my dream) to an old area and I could see some bottles sticking out of the ground. I thought it was a test or something because what bottle collector wouldn't have already checked these out? The first was a modern Pepsi that I had no interest in. The second though, was a...
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    Ebay advice. Was it okay?

    I don't know why I do it, honestly. You see something on ebay that you disagree with. Like someone says they have the only bottle of this type known to exist (and you have a case at home). Usually I try not to respond or re-act because nothing good will come of it. But this time, I gave advice...

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