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Awesome Kevin,
You found a lot for 16 minutes and some of it fighting your gear. Here's my pic last time I dove in January. Free flowed in two seconds and couldn't fix it. So, I swam around for awhile and caught a ride on a berg. 81AC8792E5FF470E9ED6F69ADBC6A81A.jpg
 

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Did a dive the other day lots of old fishing weights, a nice Blob soda Lewis R Hazard, Milford Ma, a John Wiley Pharmacist Manchester, NH, what I am told is an old brass lobster gauge ( I'm unsure on that one), an interesting bottle that is from Belfast Me embossed Belfast Candy Co. Part of a very old stein and a teacup. Driving home a flock of about 40 turkeys. Blobbottle I'm diving wetsuit no dry. Its just my feet that are cold so Im searching if you know of any really thick booties let me know.
 

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Nice finds! For sure a lobster gauge...

How tall is that Wiley bottle? His bottles are quite hard to find. He put out "Wiley's Dartmouth Cologne" as well which are real neat bottles.
 

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Awesome stuff. Look forward to your posts. They are even cooler because you are diving in rivers I'm not far from.

Question; do you ever go back and explore the bank when you find good stuff? Im guessing some bank side dumps must expose themselves on the river bottom.
 

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Hi NH, thanks for the confirmation on the lobster gauge, The Wiley bottle is 3.7/8". Where are you Mike? this river may have had its dumps and I have found a couple of areas that would seem like a riverside dump was the source. Most of the area Im in was the center of commerce bridges, wharfs, moorings etc. Most of it has been silted over, however a simple addition of a sunken log, boat etc changes the thrust (cant think of the right word) and direction of the water in the currents with every tide and things once silted over reveal themselves. I did find on the same river prior to a dive an 1802 mint large cent just sitting there. Just think Lewis and Clark had not even left yet. You just never know what you will find.
 

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Hey Kevin.
The cobalt peptenzyme is cool. Everybody loves embossed cobalt bottles, right? I found one also Reed & Carnrick but mine is from New York. I'm attaching a pic.
The 'Candy Co' round bottom bottle is pretty cool too. Nothing like that around here. It is reminiscent of that coke hutch . . .20180203_084645.jpg
 

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Hi Blob That is a great bottle. Interesting the did not put NY and NJ on the embossing maybe they moved. So I got these wet suit socks that did the trick I went oyster diving yesterday in my 7 mill and was able to do my 90 min. It was warmer underwater than above. So I keep finding these tantalizing shards of westerwald pottery here is another, a coral encrusted Caws ink , a top to a stein, and a Benjamin Green apothecary Portsmouth NH. Nothing earth shattering, hope to do a drift dive soon now that I have my gear worked out.
 

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