I just finished adapting the depressor from my old system to the new. The depressor makes deployment/retrieval much harder but the image quality is increased by an order of magnitude. It’s well worth the added hassle. I also made a new bracket to hold the pinger. Much more secure and easier to change batteries and… more
A little nostalgia today. I cut my teeth on a used Klein 521 paper machine (serial #83) and spent many MANY hours listening to the sound of the helix blades rubbing against paper. Marty Klein you built some fantastic sonar gear! I also owe a dept of gratitude to Garry Kozak for his assistance in… more
I’ve been posting a lot of side scan sonar images of large, well-known wrecks that have been visited over the years by a parade of divers, however, my main motivation for being involved with this activity is to find unknown shipwrecks. When people think of an undiscovered shipwreck they likely think of an intact wreck… more
We made a scanning trip over Labor Day weekend hitting as many known wrecks as we could in three days. We were shooting for a total of thirty wrecks but the weather didn’t cooperate yesterday so we were only able to scan twenty-five. We had the Klein 3000 in the water for seventeen hours scanning… more
The following is an account of some excitement that the crew of the Baccala had on one of our annual week long dive trips to Cape Cod. The account describes an interesting end to a dive we made on the 703, a barge three miles off Nauset Beach, and the subsequent rounding of Monomoy Island… more
