Stuff you've dropped in the water

[bobbyB]

So what stuff have you dropped in the drink??? Extra points if you've got the guts to tell about the really stupid things.

1 cell phone, couple of sunglasses, screwdriver and various nuts, bolts, etc....

My son dropped me in the water....... Picture if you will, our family on our Prostar 190......me sitting on the transome in the middle of getting ready for a ski run....my son sitting in the observer seat....without getting into the drivers seat, he twists around and starts the boat....(insert ominus music here).... I say "DON'T EVER do that. You ALWAYS get in the drivers seat before you start to operate the boat!".....(you can see it coming can't ya)....before I can stop him he whips around and jumps into the drivers seat and his knee hit the gear shift lever hard enough to slam it into full throttle forward.....I suddenly find myself with no boat under me (picture Wiley Coyote hanging in air). Funny how many angry thoughts can go thru your head in the short time it takes to hit the water:mad:. I can distinctly remember cussing underwater. After that little senerio, he never did anything close to that again...lesson learned. Years later, my wife told me that after he stopped the boat, he turned to her with a look of utter fear and said "I don't want to go back there!" Luckily no one got hurt, and it taught him a valuable lesson.....oh, and I lost the sunglasses I was wearing.

[JohnE]

I heard Knox lost his truck keys once.:D:D

[dpolen]

How about a stereo speaker? I accidientally dropped a nice Infinity Kappa component speaker in the lake while working on my parent's old Trojan express cruiser.

Beyond that, I've got the usual stuff like sunglasses, tools, and bolts/screws.

[X-5_Driver]

I dropped a cell phone in the water on the ramp while is was launching. Of course, it was dead as a doornail when I fished it out. I threw it on the dashboard and let it cook all day. When the day was done it was working again like nothing ever happened. Nokia quality construction. Other than that a whole bunch of flags including a really cool orange Boise State flag which I used as a skier flag....gone.:(

[Wake2wake]

Helping grandma get into the boat and promising her she wont fall, brother sitting in the drivers seat and he thinks its funny to hit the gas. needless to say, he got no birthday or Christmas present from her that year...:D oh and no one was hurt and looking back even she thinks its really funny.

[coz]

That's a good one bobbyB :headbang: fortunately only shades for me, alot of them though, especially when I had jetskis :D

[TMCNo1]

One perfectly good MasterCraft towel and that's it!

:uglyhammeWhen we had our lake place, I had a neighbor that found out a chainsaw wouldn't run underwater, while cutting off pier posts!

[ttu]

2 cell phones, 1 t-shirt and a flip flop.

oh and my wakeboard flew off the rack and never found it.:mad:

i did throw my son off the back when he started bit**ing about his last wakeboard set. does that count?

[WishIWasSkiing]

Just my boat....sans plug....fortunately I realized it while it was still on the trailer at the ramp. Rookie mistake.

[Sodar]

I have lost 11 cellphones, 3 pairs of glasses, a plug, an outboard (dinghy), a digital camera, deck fill caps, fuel keys, etc, etc, etc.

The cellphones are really my claim to fame, though. I was cancelled by insurance 4 times. They really need to make a waterproof, floating phone.

[ProStar190Fan]

I have lost 11 cellphones, 3 pairs of glasses, a plug, an outboard (dinghy), a digital camera, deck fill caps, fuel keys, etc, etc, etc.

The cellphones are really my claim to fame, though. I was cancelled by insurance 4 times. They really need to make a waterproof, floating phone.

They have one of those, its called the house phone, think about it, it will never need to get wet and it stays on the wall so the floating issue is taken care of. :D

Tom

[TMCNo1]

I have lost 11 cellphones, 3 pairs of glasses, a plug, an outboard (dinghy), a digital camera, deck fill caps, fuel keys, etc, etc, etc.

The cellphones are really my claim to fame, though. I was cancelled by insurance 4 times. They really need to make a waterproof, floating phone.


Wow, I'm surprised the state ever gave you a drivers license, you've lost a complete Goodwill Budget Store!
:uglyhamme

[Sodar]

They have one of those, its called the house phone, think about it, it will never need to get wet and it stays on the wall so the floating issue is taken care of. :D

Tom

I should get one of those.... I don't have a house/land line.... just the cell phone.

[TX.X-30 fan]

We stopped in the Colorado arm On LBJ one morning for a pee or something, had a boat full I gave a quick look and ask if we are ready, then punch it. Kathy was on the back standing with a wine cooler as I launched she jumped to miss the platform and someone hit my arm and said you forgot someone.

She saved the wine cooler but the shades went down.

[JohnE]

I should get one of those.... I don't have a house/land line.... just the cell phone.


I wish I could get the wife on board with cancelling the house phone. Seems like a good way to get thrifty with household expenses.;)

[Sodar]

I wish I could get the wife on board with cancelling the house phone. Seems like a good way to get thrifty with household expenses.;)

It's nice not ever having to check messages at home. We just got a line for emergencies and faxes only. Works great!

[cbryan70]

Sodor they have a waterproof phone......verizon does look up the verizon boulder

[mcxfan]

Tag Watch, New 80gig Video Ipod, Digital Video Camera, 2 cell phones, 2 new anchors/anchor buddies, fiberglass swimdeck on my 2001 PS 209, fiberglass swimdeck pad on my 2007 X2, and 2 pairs of spy sunglass. No...they weren't lost on the same trip, but enough for a down payment on a new boat....LOL

[ProStar190Fan]

Sodor they have a waterproof phone......verizon does look up the verizon boulder

or he could use this, a cell phone dry pak. Oh yeah i have dropped the drain plug in the water, thank god the boat was on the shore station.

I took it off per the instructions of when the boat is left on a uncovered shorestation you should keep it out if you will be gone for over a week, i slipped on new teak polish and well the rest you can guess.

Tom

[cf_koch]

Once while out on our Jet Ski I pulled up to a friend's ski boat and I reached to pull a line out of the storage trunk in the bow. As I pulled the rope out I watched the keys to my truck fly through the air and land in 60' of water. Made getting home with the ski a bit of a challenge. :mad:

[03 35th Anniversary]

I dropped FooterGirl in the water one time, but she floated back up to the top....

[Sodar]

I dropped FooterGirl in the water one time, but she floated back up to the top....

Going for a Scott Peterson thing, huh?

[Footin]

A $250.00 pair of Revo sunglasses last summer.

[JohnE]

I dropped FooterGirl in the water one time, but she floated back up to the top....


Sodar's dropped a dozen cell phones. You'll have another chance.

[prostar205]

One very heavy swim platform, a set of prescription sunglasses, a MC towel.

[ProStar190Fan]

One very heavy swim platform, a set of prescription sunglasses, a MC towel.

hopefully you recovered the swim platform.

Tom

[FrankSchwab]

So far, my wife has everyone beat...
1 carat $7500 diamond wedding ring. No recovery.

/frank

p.s. In her defense, she wasn't skiing that day. She'd banged her finger earlier in the day, and the ring was irritating her finger so she took it off and put it in her breast pocket. Someone dropped the flag overboard, she reached over the rail to get it, and...well, it wasn't a very good day after that.
Yes, we have a bag in the glove box for rings, wallets, keys, etc., but she didn't want to use it.

[KnoxX2]

I heard Knox lost his truck keys once:D

Thats just wrong!!!:rolleyes: But it right! Dang keys:mad:8p

[east tx skier]

Dropped my wallet in the lake and didn't miss it until home. Cancelled the cards and reordered the license.

[Wake2wake]

Sodor they have a waterproof phone......verizon does look up the verizon boulder

I will personally vouch for this phone, It has been in my pocket wakeboarding many times on accident many times, and ive even answered calls while boarding. Pretty much all of the people who i ride with have the same phone and love it. only one ive heard of breaking was when one was left on a back bumper at the ramp, and it ended up getting run over by the boat:(

oh yeah and it was advertised in Surf Magazine as taking it out in the pipeline with you. so i would assume if they are advertising it for salt water its pretty tuff!

[bobbyB]

So far, my wife has everyone beat...
1 carat $7500 diamond wedding ring. No recovery.

/frank

p.s. In her defense, she wasn't skiing that day. She'd banged her finger earlier in the day, and the ring was irritating her finger so she took it off and put it in her breast pocket. Someone dropped the flag overboard, she reached over the rail to get it, and...well, it wasn't a very good day after that.
Yes, we have a bag in the glove box for rings, wallets, keys, etc., but she didn't want to use it.

Reminds me of the time me and a buddy were pulling up to a beach and he had just dropped his anchor/bungee line when his wife went to hop over the side of the boat to pull it in. She hooked her wedding ring on the cleat and hanked her finger badly. Bad news was that the ring broke into pcs...good news was that it breaking probably saved her finger. We didn't dare disturb the bottom so my buddy stayed in his boat and his wife was standing on shore crying and holding her finger.

We took our boat back to the marina and got our snorkle gear and ran back. We were in a lake and the water was clear and only about 4ft deep, so I started working a grid pattern around his boat. A couple of mins later I found the bottom 1/2 of the ring, and about 15 mins later found the top 1/2.....no diamond though.

Picture a lake bottom that was small rocks/pebbles with some sand mixed in. Believe it or not, about 10mins later there it was inbetween the pebbles. Slowly scoped my hand under the rocks and diamond and walked to shore. 4 adults, a bunch of kids standing around looking thru the muck in my hand. Slowly poured water over my hand and there it was. One 1/2 karat diamond found! Got a big hug and great story out of that day.

Her finger ended up only bruised badly and my buddy went and had the ring remade for thier anniversary. Ahhhhh.

[VOLFAN]

just a few things that comes to mind...

hammer, sunglasses, knob for board rack, a small two wheel dolly and I am sure there is more.

[ski_king]

The plug, only one I had in the boat at the time.

[TMCNo1]

Come to think of it, over the last 31 years, I've dropped a lot on money in the water!:D

[Gonzo]

usual suspects for me... sunglasses, wife, her sunglasses when she went in ( Im still paying for that one)...:)

[Muttley]

A couple $600 prescription sunglasses... Once I stepped out of the boat and slipped on a goose crap covered dock. It was so slippery I slid right across the dock into the water on the other side. Cell phone, wallet, keys, glasses... everything into the 1 foot of muck. I still found it all. The cel even worked after it dried out. It was pretty gross.

The worst was an outboard motor. We were out in a little 6' dingy when the little 6 hp Evenrude stalled. I yanked the rope to start it and the thing fell off the transom. We hired a diver to try and find it. He came up and said he could see the crater where it hit the soft silt. He tried to reach down as far as he could into the muck, but he couldn't find it.

[ProStar190Fan]

Come to think of it, over the last 31 years, I've dropped a lot on money in the water!:D

Where are you located, i think i want to go scuba diving. :D

Tom

[Jesus_Freak]

...Picture a lake bottom that was small rocks/pebbles with some sand mixed in. Believe it or not, about 10mins later there it was inbetween the pebbles. Slowly scoped my hand under the rocks and diamond and walked to shore. 4 adults, a bunch of kids standing around looking thru the muck in my hand. Slowly poured water over my hand and there it was. One 1/2 karat diamond found! Got a big hug and great story out of that day.

Her finger ended up only bruised badly and my buddy went and had the ring remade for thier anniversary. Ahhhhh.

Amazing!

For me, the usual - prop nuts, tools, keys...

[Monte]

Lots of sunglasses.

[wakeX2wake]

6 pair of Oakley sunglasses in HS and a pair on Maui Jims in college... it was a weekly routine for me to leave me truck key in my pocket and have to use the "hidden" one when outing w/ the family the summer we had the caravelle (wish it had been the boat keys)... gotten better at this stuff... i did help drop a starter off a 94 ps205 in the drink... we got it back thought as it we were changing the starter on the dock lift and fumbled it handing it out of the boat... she didn't know it would be heavy... i dropped a pair of ray ban prescription in off the end of my friends dock and found the 6 months later when the water started going down and we could search bottom longer... i don't count those on my "GONE sunglasses" count

[Monte]

Knox dropped his keys in the water?:eek3: When did this happen??:rolleyes:8p

[KnoxX2]

Knox dropped his keys in the water?:eek3: When did this happen??:8p

Ha Ha Boy you are just full of they today!!!!:rolleyes:8p

[Monte]

Ha Ha Boy you are just full of they today!!!!:rolleyes:8p

I was just concerned for your well being there bud.. You had a spare set handy right? I mean, you didn't have to walk up any hills.. right??

[KnoxX2]

No I sure didn't and the wife didn't drive 3 hours with 3 kids to bring me the extra set.:rolleyes:;):D

[TMCNo1]

Where are you located, i think i want to go scuba diving. :D

Tom

Lots of Money, is the kind that tows boats, rides on a trailer and floats in the water!

[scott023]

6 pair of Oakley sunglasses in HS and a pair on Maui Jims in college... it was a weekly routine for me to leave me truck key in my pocket and have to use the "hidden" one when outing w/ the family the summer we had the caravelle (wish it had been the boat keys)... gotten better at this stuff... i did help drop a starter off a 94 ps205 in the drink... we got it back thought as it we were changing the starter on the dock lift and fumbled it handing it out of the boat... she didn't know it would be heavy... i dropped a pair of ray ban prescription in off the end of my friends dock and found the 6 months later when the water started going down and we could search bottom longer... i don't count those on my "GONE sunglasses" count

Wake, you should get those fancy sungalss bands that wrap around your hear like Don Johnson had in Miami Vice.

[Monte]

No I sure didn't and the wife didn't drive 3 hours with 3 kids to bring me the extra set.:rolleyes:;):D

Good.. I knew you were always prepared and would NEVER carry a set of keys on the boat without a floatie:rolleyes:

[KnoxX2]

Nope never!!!! BTW whats a floatie?8p:D

[Monte]

Nope never!!!! BTW whats a floatie?8p:D

A PFD for keys;)

[loeweb]

I've only dropped a towel, sunglasses, and cabin keys. The keys were recovered off the dock where we were staying after about 30 minutes of dragging the bottom with a magnet. Luckily the ring was a ferrous metal.

[KnoxX2]

A PFD for keys;)

PFD ?????????????????????

Sorry I don't speak Jamaican:D

[ProStar190Fan]

PFD ?????????????????????

Sorry I don't speak Jamaican:D

a personal floatation device.

Tom

[Sodar]

Wake, you should get those fancy sungalss bands that wrap around your hear like Don Johnson had in Miami Vice.

Yeah, UMP knows where you kind find those!

[KnoxX2]

Who is that other person in that Pic with UMP?

[Monte]

a personal floatation device.

Tom

Thank you Tom:cool:

Now we have absolute proof that some of our membership (Knox) rode the shorter bus on the way to school as a youth8p

[KnoxX2]

My Bus may have been shorter, but it was not the short special bus you rode!!!!!!

[Monte]

My Bus may have been short but it was a special bus

I knew it.. We still love you man:D

[Sodar]

Who is that other person in that Pic with UMP?

His girlie-friend, Priscilla

[KnoxX2]

I knew it.. We still love you man:D

Nice try with your trickery

[djhuff]

Had a funny one.
We dinged a prop coming off the lift going to a party one night, didn't have a prop puller, but the owner of the boat was good buds with the shop on the lake, called them up and they came over to change it for him. Lots of guys there that have boats, but we thought we would let the shop mechanic do the change. Someone noticed that he took the nut off before putting the prop puller on, then started to wrench it off. When brought to his attention, his answer was "I know what I'm doing"

Prop broke loose, wrench, puller, and prop... into the lake. Worst part, my buddy has deep water at his dock, so the tools are about 10' down, and it's late October (cold). Being as he was doing us a favor by even being there, we volunteered to go and retrieve his tools, but I was the only one in board shorts, so I got to go. About 20 mins later, he had his tools back, and I was a Popsicle.

[wakeX2wake]

ehhh... i can't get into croakies... i've tried them a couple of times and just can't... the six pair of oakleys can't REALLY be explained... i know what 2 of them were from... have you ever been standing on the swim platform and been speared off it?... that's 2 pair... i think one was pulling a girl in the boat as she was freaking out b/c a snake was in the water w/ her... i think the other three were from inadvertent waverunner crashes... the raybans were in my cap as i was floating w/ the "diaper" (lifejacket upside down on like a diaper... great for floating and drinking) and my friend's dad threw me my cap w/ my sunglasses inside after i had warned him... and the maui jims were lost due to intoxication and the people i was with thought i was going to wakeboard in sunglasses

[beatle78]

so the tools are about 10' down, and it's late October (cold). Being as he was doing us a favor by even being there, we volunteered to go and retrieve his tools, but I was the only one in board shorts, so I got to go. About 20 mins later, he had his tools back, and I was a Popsicle.

hehe, it's all relative right? NC? Cold? October? I laughed a little when I read this.

I usually ride a couple of times in October here in RI. I only own a shortie.:o

[wakeX2wake]

Prop broke loose, wrench, puller, and prop... into the lake.

and that's the point at which i would have thrown whatever i had left further into the lake... the mechanic is better at controlling himself than me...

and you're a really nice guy... WAY nicer than i am...

[mlay]

Sorry its not officially what I lost, pretty much everything listed before I have lost except diamonds. However, this was probably the best we came up with, even if a little cruel.

Older brother just purchased a really expensive camera and was down for the summer at our family vacation on the lake. My younger brother and I told him to speed down the cove near the dock and we could take some photo's of his boat. First pass my brother took pictures and when he returned to the dock we asked him for another pass. As he was leaving we replaced the camera with two black sandles with straps that could from a distance be mistaken for a camera. As he ran by on pass two my brother acting as if he was taking pictures fumbled the sandles out of his hands and off the dock into the water. You could clearly read the words the my brother was spouting off as he witnessed this as I dived into the water to make it look even more realistic going after the "camera". I really thought he was going to run aground looking back at what he just witnessed.

No harm no foul but it was funny, for two of us anyway!

If we could have recorded that expression we would have won on funniest videos.

[JohnE]

So far, my wife has everyone beat...
1 carat $7500 diamond wedding ring. No recovery.

/frank

p.s. In her defense, she wasn't skiing that day. She'd banged her finger earlier in the day, and the ring was irritating her finger so she took it off and put it in her breast pocket. Someone dropped the flag overboard, she reached over the rail to get it, and...well, it wasn't a very good day after that.
Yes, we have a bag in the glove box for rings, wallets, keys, etc., but she didn't want to use it.

Frank, I can't imagine anyone topping that one. I think you win. :o

Hope the insurance covered it.

[Loffgren]

Sunglasses X5

[ttu]

i would like to drop my ex wife in:toast:

[sortloff]

My little bro pulled both pins on one of my bimini poles and watched it quickly disappear into the lake. Bummer.

[Gonzo]

Picture a lake bottom that was small rocks/pebbles with some sand mixed in. Believe it or not, about 10mins later there it was inbetween the pebbles. Slowly scoped my hand under the rocks and diamond and walked to shore. 4 adults, a bunch of kids standing around looking thru the muck in my hand. Slowly poured water over my hand and there it was. One 1/2 karat diamond found! Got a big hug and great story out of that day.

Her finger ended up only bruised badly and my buddy went and had the ring remade for thier anniversary. Ahhhhh.


Hammer has a story like this one, not off a boat but mountain steams count.. waters water...

[FrankSchwab]

Frank, I can't imagine anyone topping that one. I think you win. :o

Hope the insurance covered it.

As a matter of fact, we had purchased a rider for the ring, and yes they covered it.

So, if anyone is really hard up for cash, and needs to get a ring for their lady friend, I know where there's a free one. Roughly 100 feet down from 33 degrees, 34 minutes, 33.6 seconds N, 111 degrees, 29 minutes, 33.1 seconds W.

It shouldn't be too hard to find.

[beatle78]

As a matter of fact, we had purchased a rider for the ring, and yes they covered it.

So, if anyone is really hard up for cash, and needs to get a ring for their lady friend, I know where there's a free one. Roughly 100 feet down from 33 degrees, 34 minutes, 33.6 seconds N, 111 degrees, 29 minutes, 33.1 seconds W.

It shouldn't be too hard to find.

WOW, did you guys ever grab some scuba gear to try to recover it?

[Jesus_Freak]

WOW, did you guys ever grab some scuba gear to try to recover it?

Or hire a diver?

[FrankSchwab]

WOW, did you guys ever grab some scuba gear to try to recover it?

Re-read bobbyb's post about the difficulties finding a ring in shallow water, when he probably knew where it was within a 20' circle.

Now imagine doing the same search at 100' of depth, where you have roughly 10 minutes worth of air, little light, and you think you know where you dropped the ring within, say, a 1000' diameter circle.

We determined that the probability of success didn't justify the cost.

/frank

[thatsmrmastercraft]

Re-read bobbyb's post about the difficulties finding a ring in shallow water, when he probably knew where it was within a 20' circle.

Now imagine doing the same search at 100' of depth, where you have roughly 10 minutes worth of air, little light, and you think you know where you dropped the ring within, say, a 1000' diameter circle.

We determined that the probability of success didn't justify the cost.

/frank

Won't find it if a fish ate it on the way down.

[uncleboo]

I've lost Oakleys, Costa Del Mar's, two Mastercraft t-shirts, a red and black combo ski, a wakeboard handle, a 10lb. mushroom anchor, one timex watch, a 3/8 socket and a UT hat. I am sure I will be able to add something to the list this year.

[Slinkyredfoot]

To many things to count over the years, an 18hp Evinrude outboard motor slipped off the transom of my boat when I was 13, wrenches, keys, props, concrete anchors for an old wooden float, bait, dead fish, live fish, boobers and bobbers to, an old slalom course through the ice, matches, lighters, battery chargers, slunglasses, keys and maybe a few other things that have slipped my mind.

[MC2000190]

My fiance dropped her diamond earrings under the pier! Lucky for her I was able to get them both back!

[Jesus_Freak]

Re-read bobbyb's post about the difficulties finding a ring in shallow water, when he probably knew where it was within a 20' circle.

Now imagine doing the same search at 100' of depth, where you have roughly 10 minutes worth of air, little light, and you think you know where you dropped the ring within, say, a 1000' diameter circle.

We determined that the probability of success didn't justify the cost.

/frank

Great point. 1000' diameter might be a little exaggerated, but fish, currents/thermals, and regular drag-induced wavering will will prevent it from following a straight path down (even if you knew precisely where it was dropped). Glad you had insurance.