Scavenging skis

Sallabillz

Sallabillz

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So I was water ramping and lost one ski in a shallow lake, that you cannot see through, because its dirty as shit. I dived in and looked around for the ski..no luck. So I am going back there this weekend ( its 2 hours from my house to drive) and had the idea of throwing a rake with weights on it, with a rope attached out as far as I can and pull it towards me scraping up my lost skis.hopefully, so before I go all the way there, to maybe find my ski , might as well see if any you guys have some better ideas on how to retrieve the ski.......
 
When you lose a ski and you cant find it from diving in that lake, its not turning up until someone gets lucky and finds it. Im guessing its the red deer ramps, if so you're probably SOL. Just borrow a random ski next time, that sucks though.
 
Get some goggles and just keep diving till you get it. I lost a ski at steamboat once and the water was so dark I would dive off the top of the jump and bring up any ski I could touch. Took about 45 minutes.
 
ask one of your friends who scubadives to dive it up...

a friend of mine lost his gopro on a waterramp and another friend who scubadives retrieved it within 5 minutes ....
 
I lost my GoPro in a dirty pond and had one of my dads friends go in with scuba gear and an LED flashlight in a zip lock bag. Took about an hour but he found it. So if you can find anyone with scuba gear....do that i guess
 
I lost a ski in Lake Washington near Seattle. We were trying to float in my friends homemade cargo-box-raft conversion. We used skis as oars because it was appropriate. After it capsized, one of my friends dropped his ski and it sank. Pussy.

We went back with a hose, a canoe and some goggles. It doesnt work. Your chest cant expand in water deeper than 4 feet.
 
a friend of mine lost his dad's pair of hundred dollar diving goggles in a shallow lake, so his dad said he was taking his skis until my friend either 1. found the goggles, or 2. bought him new ones.

We all through on some shitty swimming goggles and snorkled around for an hour, and found them, i dont think you are trying near hard enough.
 
its like 8 feet of dirty BURso cold ya i was in the water looking with a friend for like half an hour, and we looked another day, and had someone else look for them
 
thats about how deep it was where we found his goggles. Bring flashlights in baggies and offer your friends a 20$ reward if they find them.
 
i really cant see the rake idea working.. i think the only way you'll get it is diving with goggles like others have suggested
 
Pussy.

but seriously if you drag a weighted rake around the bottom of a lake you're going to end up with a whole lot of shit and not a lot of skies...
 
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