Posted on Dec 26, 2022
The sunken and watery treasures around us: Today So Far
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Jeff Hummel and Matt McCauley met in high school on Mercer Island back in the late 1970s. There was one thing that created a bond between them that has lasted decades — mystery.
Specifically, mysteries that lay beneath the surface of the waters we look at, swim in, and sail through every day. It started when Hummel's father told him tales of an airplane that crashed into Lake Washington years ago. His father saw it happen while working for Boeing in Renton. Since McCauley had scuba certification, they hatched a plan to search for that plane. They found it. That led to another plan, to raise and retrieve the plane. They collected old air hoses from gas stations, pumped air down into the plane, and floated it. Then, they borrowed a telephone pole truck to move it ... to McCauley's driveway. Their cunning plans were short on where to put this thing if they ever actually got it.
Specifically, mysteries that lay beneath the surface of the waters we look at, swim in, and sail through every day. It started when Hummel's father told him tales of an airplane that crashed into Lake Washington years ago. His father saw it happen while working for Boeing in Renton. Since McCauley had scuba certification, they hatched a plan to search for that plane. They found it. That led to another plan, to raise and retrieve the plane. They collected old air hoses from gas stations, pumped air down into the plane, and floated it. Then, they borrowed a telephone pole truck to move it ... to McCauley's driveway. Their cunning plans were short on where to put this thing if they ever actually got it.
The sunken and watery treasures around us: Today So Far
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Specifically, mysteries that lay beneath the surface of the waters we look at, swim in, and sail through every day. It started when Hummel's father told him tales of an airplane that crashed into Lake Washington years ago. His father saw it happen while working for Boeing in Renton. Since McCauley had scuba certification, they hatched a plan to search for that plane. They found it. That led to another plan, to raise and retrieve the plane. They collected old air hoses from gas stations, pumped air down into the plane, and floated it. Then, they borrowed a telephone pole truck to move it ... to McCauley's driveway. Their cunning plans were short on where to put this thing if they ever actually got it.
But this story about two friends isn't about that crashed plane. It's not about the other planes they eventually raised from the bottom of Lake Washington. It's not about how the Navy got a little mad about these two locals finding and retrieving its sunken wrecks and eventually sued them. This story is about the Pacific — the Pacific Ocean and the S.S. Pacific that sunk off the shores of Washington before it was ever a state. The resting place of that tragedy has remained a mystery for nearly 150 years ... until now. Soundside has that story here.
Our Northwest waters hold more treasures than we realize, and I'm not just talking about sunken planes and ships. OK nerds, get ready to be excited. I'm getting hyped over hydrogen."...
..."Specifically, mysteries that lay beneath the surface of the waters we look at, swim in, and sail through every day. It started when Hummel's father told him tales of an airplane that crashed into Lake Washington years ago. His father saw it happen while working for Boeing in Renton. Since McCauley had scuba certification, they hatched a plan to search for that plane. They found it. That led to another plan, to raise and retrieve the plane. They collected old air hoses from gas stations, pumped air down into the plane, and floated it. Then, they borrowed a telephone pole truck to move it ... to McCauley's driveway. Their cunning plans were short on where to put this thing if they ever actually got it.
But this story about two friends isn't about that crashed plane. It's not about the other planes they eventually raised from the bottom of Lake Washington. It's not about how the Navy got a little mad about these two locals finding and retrieving its sunken wrecks and eventually sued them. This story is about the Pacific — the Pacific Ocean and the S.S. Pacific that sunk off the shores of Washington before it was ever a state. The resting place of that tragedy has remained a mystery for nearly 150 years ... until now. Soundside has that story here.
Our Northwest waters hold more treasures than we realize, and I'm not just talking about sunken planes and ships. OK nerds, get ready to be excited. I'm getting hyped over hydrogen."...
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