Need help finding sunkin' ski (Not Anymore!!!)

[SuperJETT]

Do an expanding circle type search a couple times, I doubt a bass fishermen will be able to find it on a color sonar. I found my outboard the same way, and expanding circle. If your divers are just randomly making passes they are just costing you money because its impossible to know where your going even just 15 feet down. If the ski actually is resting on bottom, you will find it with the circle search, just do it a couple times. If its neutrally buoyant, it will probably wash up somewhere.

That's a second vote for an expanding circle search.

 

[onesojourner]

do you have divers looking? most of the guys i dive with would do it for next to nothing.

 

[Freestyleriverrat]

what is your location? All you have to do to get it back up is hook a spare bc to it a inflate it. if that does not do it hold onto the ski and inflate you bc as well. If you are anywhere near Ky I am scuba certified.

 

[LBE]

I wanna see some pictures..

Go look at a lake with nothing on it.



:biggrin: :biggrin:

 

[FL-cracker]

Damn, that sucks.. good luck.

 

[chad]

it sank in Cheney Lake in Kansas ....... a diver went down and did the circle the rope thing where the gps was marked .......he also said the bottom was like walking knee deep in whipped creme.

 

[WaveDemon]

I don't know anything about it but I've seen on TV where they can look for metal objects on the bottom with some kind of metal detector/scanner from the surface. Good luck.

 

[Matt_E]

Too bad it's not a metal hull.

 

[WaveDemon]

Too bad it's not a metal hull.

I guess the aluminum parts don't help either. and niether does all the stainless bolts. never mind

:banghead:

 

[Matt_E]

I really don't think it would. I don't think those parts are of significant enough size and mass to show up as anything meaningful on those devices.

 

[waterfreak]

I think that a professional salvage diver will find it . If they can find a Russian submarine in 300 ft of water in the middle of the ocean than this shouldn't be such a big deal. I saw a local salvage diver find a set of keys in the middle of the nastiest (cut off canal ) water in this area.

BTW I've loss my hood before ( right Rick!! :bad3: ) but the ski never went to the bottom eventhough I also removed the foam from the nose area to run the front exhaust. It actually floated like a buoy (rear up , nose down)

 

[Big Kahuna]

Never assume something sinks straight down.......... It could have gone down at a shallow angle, or even worse, submerged about 5-10 feet down, then took on neutral bouyancy and drifted for a while then sunk, or until it ran aground, under water........ it could be near the shore somewhere.

 

[SXR-FOREVER]

When you find it maybe (if it has a scupper or one way) hook the rope on the front so you will pull it out of the water nose first and the water will drain out the bottom/back as you pull it out.

 

[Mark44]

I would get a topographical map of the lake the Marina should have that. If the lake was formed by a river and is damned there will be a channel and current down there. Find the location on the map where the craft went down and see if it is near the channel if it is follow it and search for the ski. Just an idea.

Mark44

 

[djkorn1]

I have done everything I can to make my ski unsinkable. (It is a fear I can't get out of my head). That is why I have the rachet straps on the hood (it isn't even getting knocked off sideways). I also put a 1100GPH Rule-Mate automatic bilge.. even with the scupper wide open with a stick holding it open, it won't sink. The bilge is always ready to run because there is no switch. This is making me want to Install a second 1100 GPH bilge.. maybe in front of the gas tank.

I am sure you will find it!

 

[yamaslut]

I hate to say this, but I personally don't think it sank all the way. I would bet that the ski is neutrally boyant like SJ said... Super jets don't normally sink anyway and they surely won't sink like a rock thats for sure.. that thing could have drifted 1000ft away from where it was last seen depending on currents, wind, ext. That lake is huge and surley has some type of water movement..

I would research the lakes currents and check weather history to see what the wind was doing the few dyas afterward... Then make a logical choice on where to look...

Like:
if you were in the center of the lake when it sank and the wind was ripping out out the west... it might make sense to check the east side shore line for it..

 

[djkorn1]

Wasnt the ski defoamed.?. If it was, it couldve sank..?..? or am I nuts?

 

[Matt_E]

I believe the nose foam was taken out, but foam was still present in the rear of the hull.

 

[yamaslut]

I believe the nose foam was taken out, but foam was still present in the rear of the hull.

my last sj was the same and it floated... that's why i say it didn't sink all the way

 

[Matt_E]

When I rebuilt my Roundnose over the winter, I refoamed (was waterlogged.)
However, I added weight through heavy reinforcing in the back.
I took out the nose foam because I didn't want to fight with it over the front exhaust.
I know it floated great last year....none of this "tail only" stuff.
I am curious to see what it is now.
I think I will do a controlled sinking at the ramp just to see if and how much it floats. Better find out in a controlled environment than in the middle of the lake.