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The day the cutterhead found a submerged truck in the Ohio River
We were working a stretch near Cincinnati when the whole rig shuddered and the engine load spiked. Shut everything down and the diver went in, came back up saying we'd hit a full-size pickup truck, just sitting on the bottom. Had to bring in a crane barge to lift it clear, which put us behind by about two shifts. Anyone else ever pull something that big out of the mud?
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faithhunt7mo ago
Wasn't there a story a while back about a dredge on the Mississippi pulling up an old safe? I remember reading that, and it was just sitting there all rusted shut. They never did get it open to see if anything was inside (which is probably for the best, honestly). Makes you wonder how long some of that stuff has been down there, just waiting for a piece of equipment to snag it. A whole truck is a new one for me, though. That must have been a real mess to deal with.
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wilson.emma7mo ago
My buddy on a Great Lakes dredge pulled a whole sunken speedboat off a sandbar last year. They had to stop for a full day to get it untangled from their equipment. It's wild what ends up on the bottom.
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the_skyler6mo ago
Wow that's crazy but it makes sense. It's like @faithhunt said, stuff just sinks and gets buried for years. I see it on a smaller scale at the lake near me, people lose phones, fishing poles, all kinds of junk. The water just swallows things up and keeps them. Makes you realize how much random history is just sitting at the bottom of any river or lake, waiting to snag something.
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