What happens when a former off-shore drilling rig captain meets a former Alaskan crab fisherman and they discover they share a passion for diving on shipwrecks?The answer: The first edition of "Northwest Wreck Dives," by Scott Boyd and Jeff Carr.
The two adventuresome souls spent every weekend the past two years searching for and diving on more than 100 sunken ships and boats in Puget Sound, Lake Washington, the Straits of Juan de Fuca and around the San Juan Islands — and, for good measure, two cars in Lake Crescent near Port Angeles.
To find all these submerged hulks of wood and steel, they relied on a database maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, friends, rumors, history books and, as Boyd puts it, "blind, dumb luck."
After talking with Boyd, it seems to me scuba-diving technical skills and experience played a big role, too, not to mention the sonar scanning equipment mounted on Boyd's 22-foot aluminum boat dubbed the Dive Bum.
Long before the book was published, Boyd had made a name for himself with his underwater color photography and his scuba diving and maritime skills, noted friend and fellow diver Jerry Erlich of Olympia...[TheOlympian.com]
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