New Year's day dive

New Year’s Day means many things to many people, a new start to a workout plan, a time to change their ways and some to sleep off a night of partying. But to the members of the Point Pleasant First Aid underwater Search & Rescue team it means it’s time to dive.

    Every year the team starts the year off with a dive on New Year’s Day. No matter what the weather is cold, rain, snow, warm we go, high tide, low tide or going in off the beach we go. Since the team can be call 24/7/365 we have to be ready to go in the water.

   2020 first dive was at the boat ramp at the foot of Bay Avenue. This is a great area to dive in but can only be used in the winter as the amount of boat traffic in the warmer months makes it to dangerous. Many awesome artifacts have come up from this area, old bottles, a old brass boat hook and yes even a gun (that was turned over to the police).  This year it was all bottles and a few lead fishing weights.

   Here in the picture are a few of the bottles that came up, an old whiskey flask, a square milk bottle, An old coke bottle from the 1950’s, a broken small medicine bottle, a small blue Bromo-seltzer bottle and three J.R. Lynch bottle (who was the soda maker in the Point Pleasant Beach area for many years).

   There are a few pictures of pass first dives