Sunday was the end of the year for collecting sinkers for
the team and this was a great year! We had many dives with totals over one
hundred pounds and with Mother Nature’s help we found many good spots. Shark
River Inlet both north and south sides or Manasquan Inlet even the Highlands
bridge no matter where we went we came back with sinkers.
So with the help of
the Ocean Fire Company who gives the dive team a few tables at their fishing
Flea market every year, we set out to sell the sinkers and anything else we
find underwater. Sinkers, lures, fishing poles, old bottles and anything we
find. One year we found a concrete owl and we even sold that! It all goes to
help support the team.
This is the big
fund raiser for the team. Our truck, air compressor, dive gear, dry suits are
not cheap! We do get some funding from the first aid squad but their job comes
first and their equipment is not cheap either. So the team tries to help out by
raising all we can.
This year the
team recovered 5420.2 pounds of sinkers, this is the best we ever did. So we
loaded up the dive truck and headed over to the flea market and got set up. With
the whole dive team showing up it was a fast load in. That was a good thing, as
it was raining!
Sue. Ali and Big
Joe got busy setting up the tables and Joe (OJ) and Rich got the lure display
set up while the rest of us Chris, Tommy Lee, Evan, Greg, young Jim and Eric
got everything in the building in just a few trips.
The doors opened at
0830 and by 0831 we were selling sinkers! I guy took 230 pounds at one shot! A
few pounds here and a few pounds there, 25 pounds, 50 pounds the Team was just
selling! Even Flo showed up and was selling. By the end of the day we sold just
about everything we had!
So with a big
THANK YOU to Ocean Fire Company and all the team members who worked so hard
this year getting cleaning and sorting 5420.2 pounds and lures. Now we get to
start again!
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