I once heard a story about a boat that lost its anchor, I don’t remember the reason why. A year later they were anchoring in the same area when their anchor snagged on the bottom. When they were finally able to free it and get it to the surface, their previous anchor was attached to it.
I also worked with another Capt that decided he wanted to paint our anchor while we were tied up at Leeville . So he had the deck hand lower it down into the little pram we kept onboard. While rowing it to the stern a shrimp boat went by and swamped the boat sending the anchor to the bottom. He dragged that grapple for hours but finally caught it and was able to get it back in place before the office found out. After that he no longer saw a need to paint it.
When I was out sailing on the lakes last month the wheelsman was telling me about this deep sea watchman they had. When they were headed into port the Mate had him clear the anchors, he went up removed the devils claw, pulled up the riding pawl and thought he would make sure it was free by trying to drop it a little. He said he did this deep sea, well the anchor took off got out of control and the anchor and all 5 shots went right to the bottom and ripped a big huge hole in the bulkhead were the pad eye was. They ended up pulling the stern anchor off and putting that up forward until the other was retrieved.
Drag that then pull that. I’ve actually caught and anchor like that once so it can be done. we made several passes at different angles and there you go no rov. i also hooked a female connector onto a pile stim in 6000 ’ plus water without help of rov. I bought a lottery ticket but didn’t hit. what the hell just drag.
Yes! Twenty foot containers TIED down! No agent! No clearance to sail foreign! Lol-z
I see his operation tied up in Boston from time to time… Really never underway as far as i can tell. His “ROV” looked like something out of 70s sci-fi!
