At times the dive team gets called by people looking for help after they dropped something off their boat or dock and don't know who to call for help.
In the past the team has recovered wedding rings, fishing poles, cameras, cell phones eye glasses and sun glasses. If we have divers available at the time we always try to help.
This time it was a boat captain who dropped his very expensive prescription glasses while getting off his boat at the dock.
A call was made to Asst. Chief Diver Joe Southard who called to see if any one was available to dive. Chief Diver Chet was available and geared up and headed over to the boat slip to talk to the captain and find out all the information he could.
After finding out where the glasses were dropped overboard, he planned a search pattern to use that would work in the boat slip and under the boat.
Since it was so late in the day this was going to be a night dive. Chet dropped into the water and went right to work searching the boat slip. With the good visibility and his dive light he covered the slip in minutes. Finding no glasses he searched the slip again going slower and checking every hole and folds on the bottom. After the second search with no glasses found he moved the search area into the slip.
Moving towards the back of the boat in the next slip Chet dropped down to the bottom and started his search moving slowly forward searching from side to side and slowly working his way towards shore. Moving no more then ten feet there sat the glasses
Surfacing with the glasses in hand the captain couldn't believe his eyes. Not only did he get his glasses back, but that they were recovered in only ten minutes.
You can see the whole video of the recovery by going to WWW.youtube.com/watch?v=172omeAMOBk
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