Ocean Boy Posted June 1, 2010 #101 Share Posted June 1, 2010 (edited) Yea, I'm certain. I've spoken with the owners through other means and they confirmed ownership by stating what their activity was underwater. I purposely held back a piece of info so I could confirm ownership. I can mention it now. The camera owner was sawing on an anchor chain underway. The anchor was from a ship sunk during WWII. They were recovering the anchor. That anchor has now been made in to a WWII memorial in Aruba. Here is a link to that info. The owner is one of the photographers: http://www.lago-colony.com/ANCHORS_FROM_ORANJESTAD_HARBOR/SECOND_ANCHOR/DEDACATION/move_to_savaneta.htm Just when it seemed like the story was over it just keeps getting better. Edited June 1, 2010 by Ocean Boy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquahound Posted June 1, 2010 Author #102 Share Posted June 1, 2010 I want to sincerely thank Cruise Critic for writing a story about this. This is from their News link: http://www.cruisecritic.com/news/news.cfm?ID=3906 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gatour Posted June 1, 2010 #103 Share Posted June 1, 2010 (edited) Paul great job. Quick someone call the Today show,or GMA. Edited June 1, 2010 by gatour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisenfever Posted June 1, 2010 #104 Share Posted June 1, 2010 Does your wife know what a great guy she's married to?:) What a great ending to an amazing story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquahound Posted June 1, 2010 Author #105 Share Posted June 1, 2010 Does your wife know what a great guy she's married to?:) What a great ending to an amazing story. Aww, thanks, Patti. You're sweet. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjackso8 Posted June 1, 2010 #106 Share Posted June 1, 2010 What a wonderful story. If only everyone was as thoughful as you are. I used to work for a scuba shop, I'm going to pass this along to them, and their camera guy. I love this. and sea turtles are my favorite, the video made my day.:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamalicious Posted June 1, 2010 #107 Share Posted June 1, 2010 What an AMAZING, AMAZING story.... Thanks for sharing...You are such a great person to go out of your way to find the owners. Kudos to you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megr1125 Posted June 1, 2010 #108 Share Posted June 1, 2010 Paul great job. Quick someone call the Today show,or GMA. Actually that's the kind of thing that those shows love....maybe USAToday will pick it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanGdss Posted June 2, 2010 #109 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Paul great job. Quick someone call the Today show,or GMA. I actually sent this in to Brian w/ NBC Nightly News last night after reading the thread. Who knows what will happen! :) (Gave all the credit to Aqua of course!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onevacationlover Posted June 2, 2010 #110 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Yea, I'm certain. I've spoken with the owners through other means and they confirmed ownership by stating what their activity was underwater. I purposely held back a piece of info so I could confirm ownership. I can mention it now. The camera owner was sawing on an anchor chain underway. The anchor was from a ship sunk during WWII. They were recovering the anchor. That anchor has now been made in to a WWII memorial in Aruba. Here is a link to that info. The owner is one of the photographers: http://www.lago-colony.com/ANCHORS_FROM_ORANJESTAD_HARBOR/SECOND_ANCHOR/DEDACATION/move_to_savaneta.htm The story continues to amaze me:)...wonder what day I need to set my tivo for Brian Williams:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruzaholic41 Posted June 2, 2010 #111 Share Posted June 2, 2010 I want to sincerely thank Cruise Critic for writing a story about this. This is from their News link: http://www.cruisecritic.com/news/news.cfm?ID=3906 That is a GREAT article written by CC! The camera owner was sawing on an anchor chain underway. The anchor was from a ship sunk during WWII. They were recovering the anchor. That anchor has now been made in to a WWII memorial in Aruba. Here is a link to that info. The owner is one of the photographers: http://www.lago-colony.com/ANCHORS_FROM_ORANJESTAD_HARBOR/SECOND_ANCHOR/DEDACATION/move_to_savaneta.htm This story just keeps getting better and better. I really hope a major news source picks this up. We could use some of this sort of stuff in today's news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keetje Posted June 2, 2010 #112 Share Posted June 2, 2010 You don't believe this Aruban divestory, but it's really happened to us! On november 11th 2009 my divebuddy Toine van der Klooster and I were diving on a big US Navy WWII anchor at Eagle Beach Aruba, what is now a WWII monument on the Marine Barracks in Savaneta. During the dive when we're sawing the chain of the big anchor I unfortunately lost my underwatercamera. Because it had a possitive buoyancy it floated away. Toine joked to me that the camera will be found somewhere in Costa Rica or Panama. But....yesterday somebody told us at the school of our son Delano, that the camera was found in Florida, Key West !!!! The finder of the camera put the latest film of the camera on you tube.com, but............ this film wasn't made by me? What happened....................................... In january this year a seaturtle activated the camera somewhere in the Caribbean sea and made a reality movie of himself!! Hilarious!! After the filmshooting the camera floated further to Florida Key West and washed ashore last month at the half of may. As you all know the finder immediately started an search operation on Scubaboard.com, cruisecritics.com and aruba.com to find us. What a story!!! Aquahound, a.k.a. Paul Shultz found us with the help of all interested readers of several websites. Paul, we want to thank you that you find our Ikelite underwatercamera!! Also for sending it back to Aruba so we've now the missing photos and film pieces from the Eagle Beach Anchor WWII memorial project. If your interested to read about this diveproject here's the link http://www.lago-colony.com/ANCHORS_FROM_ORANJESTAD_HARBOR/SECOND_ANCHOR/DEDACATION/move_to_savaneta.htm Regards, Dick de Bruin Sergeant in the Royal Dutch Navy Marine Barracks Savaneta in Aruba dickdebruin22@hotmail.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquahound Posted June 2, 2010 Author #113 Share Posted June 2, 2010 (edited) Mr. de Bruin - You just made this story a whole lot better. You have been a Cruise Critic member all this time. I didn't know that. They may have to do an amendment to the story now. Hey, it's good to see you here. Finding you was a real challenge based on the photos, but it was also a lot of fun. You're going to enjoy getting your property back. You have some great pictures and videos on that memory card, not to mention the 20 minute unedited turtle video! BTW, I am former 1st Class Petty Officer in the U.S. Coast Guard, now civilian investigator. Coincidently, we both have nautical backgrounds. Edited June 2, 2010 by Aquahound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sea-cruise Posted June 2, 2010 #114 Share Posted June 2, 2010 GREAT investigative work, Paul! Congratulations on a job well done! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmy Posted June 2, 2010 #115 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Oh boy more great reading to this story.... I continue to smile when I read this:) so when will you two meet? any plans on a cruise to Aruba Paul:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rageous Posted June 2, 2010 #116 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Wow... amazing story with an amazing ending :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquahound Posted June 2, 2010 Author #117 Share Posted June 2, 2010 so when will you two meet? any plans on a cruise to Aruba Paul:) Emmy, I thought about it. I actually considered getting on an airplane and flying down there. Unfortunately, work is pretty busy for the next month or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Grumpus Posted June 2, 2010 #118 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Glad I finally clicked onto this thread to read what was going on here. Great story, Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzyvet Posted June 2, 2010 #119 Share Posted June 2, 2010 What a cool story!! I just love the turtle video, that's one confused and determined turtle! And the story just got better and better, with the anchor and the memorial. I'm so glad that the pictures got found and could be added to the background of the story of this anchor and how it was restored and is now a memorial. Good work by all involved, especially you Paul. I'm glad this ended so well! I too "lost" a camera on vacation. I left it in a lounge on a ship, second to the last day. Went back 20 minutes later and gone! No one turned it in. All my vacation photos gone. I was bummed. Cheap camera to replace, but I'm still upset I don't have any vacation photos of that cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bplazo Posted June 2, 2010 #120 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Glad I finally clicked onto this thread to read what was going on here. Great story, Paul. I almost did not click on this thread also, so glad that I did. What a great story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean Boy Posted June 2, 2010 #121 Share Posted June 2, 2010 I don't quite know how this great thread continues to get even better day after day but, somehow, it does!:):):) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbie5401 Posted June 2, 2010 #122 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Again, thank you Paul - great story and I love happy endings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryano Posted June 2, 2010 #123 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Amazing story! This world needs a lot more peope in it like you Aquahound! I think this is one of the best things I have ever read on ANY forum. Kudos to you sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanfromatlanta Posted June 2, 2010 #124 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Good work Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanderra Posted June 2, 2010 #125 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Hi Paul :)....I really applaud you and your endeavours to find the owner. I took on a 8 month search for the owner....I should say 'descednants', of a diary which came into my hands in the U.K when I was visiting there. It had been found in an old mansion which was being demolished in London. The person who found it couldn't read the old English writing, in remarkable condition. I brought it home to Australia and set about reading (and deciphering) it. It had been written in 2 parts, 1855 and 1885 and it took me a few weeks to decipher as much as I could. It was towards the end of the second part when I realised the writer was a lady...and I had this overwhelming need to find her descendants and return this very interesting diary to them. The diary was about two 'tours' to France and Italy. There were some words I wasn't able to decipher. All I had to go on was the name E.J Palmer, Wanlip (first part) and then 'Newlands'....not knowing where either place was. Very very long story short....after many months and doing lots of research I FOUND THEM....her descendants :) He is Sir John Edward Somerset Palmer and is the great great grandson of the writer....Elizabeth Julia Palmer. I am now the proud owner of a beautiful oval portrait of her which Sir John sent me...her grandfather on her mother's side was the Maharaja of Purnea and Elizabeth is wearing a beautiful pale pink crinoline with black hair done in ringlets at the side of her face. I was so very pleased to be able to put a face to this lady who I found I had come to know, in her own words :) So good on you Paul for perservering :D ...it's a great feeling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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