scrap metal

[resting rifleman]

Originally Posted by stevechesh

Hypothetically speaking:

Lets just say you were out diving and came across 75 tons of copper, 200 tons of copper ore and 20 tons of lead, that might just be lying around, would there be much money to be made on the scrap value?

Just curious

worth getting some analyzed! which brings to mind a tale
not so many years ago, a pair of regular diggers found a niche of "copper" pipes in a local often dived wreck. £££££££ flashed in front of their eyes and a mission was planned. first step, bag one of these pipes and get it off to be analyzed! mission accomplished, bagged and recovered during a dive, leaving time to get in amongst the perfume bottles before surfacing.
Well, in their excitement the derring two passed the perfume bottles to one of the wives and scraped and rubbed thier treasure and paid absolutely no attention to what was happening to the perfume bottles, which same, the dear lady had placed on the passenger seat of the hatchback parked in the full glare of a july afternoon! OH DEAR! (those who have experienced the Kyarra perfume pong, will fully appreciate the ramifications of the resulting explosion)
Still, as it turned out, the pong wasn't too bad on the way home, cos the ventilation provided by the "copper pipe" when the hatchback hatch was closed, punched a dirty great hole in the back window which promptly went into a zillion bits on the pier. and this helped to limit the aroma on the long journey back to Norfolk.
the copper pipe (it looked like a scaffolding pole to me!) was analyzed and found to be worth..............................
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less than the cost of the gas used to bag it up
mike.

[Richard Greenwood]

Originally Posted by resting rifleman

worth getting some analyzed! which brings to mind a tale
not so many years ago, a pair of regular diggers found a niche of "copper" pipes in a local often dived wreck. £££££££ flashed in front of their eyes and a mission was planned. first step, bag one of these pipes and get it off to be analyzed! mission accomplished, bagged and recovered during a dive, leaving time to get in amongst the perfume bottles before surfacing.
Well, in their excitement the derring two passed the perfume bottles to one of the wives and scraped and rubbed thier treasure and paid absolutely no attention to what was happening to the perfume bottles, which same, the dear lady had placed on the passenger seat of the hatchback parked in the full glare of a july afternoon! OH DEAR! (those who have experienced the Kyarra perfume pong, will fully appreciate the ramifications of the resulting explosion)
Still, as it turned out, the pong wasn't too bad on the way home, cos the ventilation provided by the "copper pipe" when the hatchback hatch was closed, punched a dirty great hole in the back window which promptly went into a zillion bits on the pier. and this helped to limit the aroma on the long journey back to Norfolk.
the copper pipe (it looked like a scaffolding pole to me!) was analyzed and found to be worth..............................
.
.
.
.
.
less than the cost of the gas used to bag it up
mike.

Mike,

Your story reminded me of a tale from many years ago involving a group of very serious wreck divers in our Branch (late 80s/early 90s).

They did a lot of dives on a certain wreck in the Clyde, and recovered some decent items, including perfectly sealed bottles of whisky from the holds. Now, they had researched the cargo manifest of this wreck, and they believed that it contained a cargo of mercury. A few of this group dived the wreck one weekend, and found what they believed was the mercury in the cargo. Frantic phone calls followed, work plans shot to pot, and plans were made to recover the "mercury". Pound signs were seen to flash before their eyes.

Dives were made, and the said items recovered. As they decompressed they dreamed of the riches due to them. Unfortunately the members of the team who were on the boat discovered that what they had actually recovered was a huge lump of a putty type material!! I don't suppose the fact that it wasn't actually liquid entered their heads at the time

Richard

[Marky Mark]

I don't know, the temperature of the Clyde sometimes could solidify Mercury.

Just read The Other Titanic about the guys who salvaged the Oceanic shipwreck, excellent read.

MM