Paddle wheel find

[scubajay1153]

I have dove a handful of places in Opechee and most of the interesting things I have found were glassware, pottery and some lost fishing gear. Over behind Bayside Ct there is alot of wood and piping type debris (and dead eels) and my dives for the FD around the boat launch on Messer St revealed a mostly shallow area with shards of pottery as well. THe paddle wheel is interesting to hear about. I think the leads about a power source for one of shore building/mills may be dead on but alas I have no material to back it up. Maybe a trip to the Goss Reading Room may help?

[Diver1111]

Yes RG it's been a good summer for finds-cool stuff, no? Outboards, steamboats...

Have not been in the CT River all summer except for June-neat things there too-wow-talk about history there-lots of guns too. The weather (rain) blows out the CT River so not much going on there this year; As for the paddle wheel, I will work on that more;

As to the carburetor reference above (thanks for the neat info on that) and them being dumped, I ran side-scan around the entire perimeter of Opechee recently scanning left/right for a total swath of 250 feet combined, and found nothing of interest. Doesn't mean there isn't anything there of interest, just that I didn't find any. A pile of carbs might show up but you need to understand the limitations of side-scan. Metal is good, but prob. covered with silt, mud etc. and scattered.

I also tried to pick up the paddle-wheel on side-scan...but nothing. Considering I had a very good idea where it was (as I surfaced after finding it to triangulate my approx. position over it vis-a-vis the shore) I couldn't do it.

As with anything wood-especially water-logged wood, I was a bit surprised I couldn't see it on SSS, but alas, no.