I lost my camera at the Daryaw :(

[Neil]

I lost my camera in the Daryaw yesterday around 6pm. Well I hope it's *in* the Daryaw and not outside it. The last place I saw it was in the rooms at the bow, specifically the room at the top (actually the bottom since the ship is upside down). I took a picture, then clipped it back off, and then later after going to the engine room and preparing to pick my stage bottles back up, noticed it was gone. :(

[Terry]

Ouch...housing?

[scubagirl]

Was your name on it anywhere? Maybe some other diver took it, though I can't think of why someone would do such a thing. Were there any other divers on the wreck at that time? That really sucks about the camera.

[Terry]

Most important, had you already deleted the images of you, the camel, the melon, the feather duster and the Swedish appliance?

[Neil]

I went back to look for it again today and didn't see it any of the places I was hoping it might have gotten hooked on something.

No, my name isn't on it.. but no one else was there at the time anyway. Since I didn't see it inside the wreck or while drifting downstream from the wreck for 15 minutes, it's probably miles and miles away by now. I don't think any divers were even on the daryaw between when I lost it last night and when I got back there today.

The only sensitive pictures on the camera were of the brockmere cliffs shore-dive-the-daryaw entrance. But I think after doing that 3-hour dive + hike + mountain climb dive two days in a row, I've had enough of that shore dive and don't mind so much if someone steals my special entry spot.

It was a 4megapixel camera in an ikelite housing. Oh well at least I didn't have a fancy expensive lens or strobes. I'm going back to the Daryaw again tomorrow (this time from a charter boat) and I'll keep my fingers crossed that someone sees it floating around.

[Terry]

Damn, that hurts. I watched a Canon powershot spiral down into the blue in Belize earlier this year, and that was bad enough.