Diving Seward
I just talked to a friend's landlord who used to do salvage diving around Seward in the 70s.
He told me where exactly to find the stuff that went under in the 1964 earthquake.
However, unlike the stuff that I was imagining, these are just those huge crates like you see in docks today. He drew me a map pointing to the bend. Apparently the are 50 - 60 feet out. I don't know whether that's low or high tide.
What he also told me was that diving is best in the winter because the fresh water isn't coming down into the bay mixing up silt. The best time to dive is when everything is tied up in the snow.
The water difference only gets to be about 2 degrees so the winter/summer dive wouldn't make that much of a difference.
He also pointed out a spot where you can see sea lions and walls of shrimp. He said there are also coral sharks under there that can get up to 7-8 feet long.
He said he's been back up into a bunch of rocks that he had to somewhat hide in to keep away from sea lions that were nipping at him.
In his place I've seen on his wall a walrus skull complete with two long tusks about 2.5 feet long. At their points they slightly cross.
There was no mandible but I checked the maxilla. There was only one molar present, the others had fallen out (That is an example from the Alaska Sealife Center in Seward). The tooth itself was very sloped toward the outside of the mouth. The crown itself had a wide parabolic shape with a long vertical distance. The crown itself was completely smooth and barely stuck more than a few millimeters up from the bone.
Even the Alaska Sealife Center doesn't have a sample like that. They only have the snout.
He told me where exactly to find the stuff that went under in the 1964 earthquake.
However, unlike the stuff that I was imagining, these are just those huge crates like you see in docks today. He drew me a map pointing to the bend. Apparently the are 50 - 60 feet out. I don't know whether that's low or high tide.
What he also told me was that diving is best in the winter because the fresh water isn't coming down into the bay mixing up silt. The best time to dive is when everything is tied up in the snow.
The water difference only gets to be about 2 degrees so the winter/summer dive wouldn't make that much of a difference.
He also pointed out a spot where you can see sea lions and walls of shrimp. He said there are also coral sharks under there that can get up to 7-8 feet long.
He said he's been back up into a bunch of rocks that he had to somewhat hide in to keep away from sea lions that were nipping at him.
In his place I've seen on his wall a walrus skull complete with two long tusks about 2.5 feet long. At their points they slightly cross.
There was no mandible but I checked the maxilla. There was only one molar present, the others had fallen out (That is an example from the Alaska Sealife Center in Seward). The tooth itself was very sloped toward the outside of the mouth. The crown itself had a wide parabolic shape with a long vertical distance. The crown itself was completely smooth and barely stuck more than a few millimeters up from the bone.
Even the Alaska Sealife Center doesn't have a sample like that. They only have the snout.
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