White Bear Lake Nautical Archaeology 1 Project Report

[Terry]

Hello John,
I would of replied sooner John but was down in Key West bringing up rum barrels submerged in the Vandenberg at 140' for that last several months to test extracting the flavor out of the charcoal on the inside of a well used barrels due to the increase in hydrostatic pressure.
Few weeks back Joe, Scotty and I went to their talk at Excelsior about Tonka wrecks. Dr. Ann stated there that the "artifacts" less then 50 years submerged were under DNR control. I did shake my head when she spoke of the "voodoo science" of silt measuring. If the foot of a wave travels down 7 times its height, stirring up the bottom in shallower areas on windy days, or when a water skier says "hit it" to the driver of 200-300 HP outboard sitting in 4-10' of water, stirring up half of a football field of bottom on every run, I wanted to ask, "does this actually age shallow artifacts due to increasing their silt buildup"?
I went up to speak with her and Chris afterwards, to tell them that we knew of some wrecks that they had not listed and wondered if they might be interested in a little, "tit for tat" (Don't you guys read anything into that, "tat",,, being my initials) She stated that they were not interested, at all, in what information we might have. I found this quite unusual that they would not think the shear volume of finds between, you, Nate, Art, Steve, Joe, Popo, Robert, Scotty, myself and others might not lead to some good, "research potential". I stated we dove for fun and was sure we dove more often then her and Chris, they diving for money and all. The good Dr. took offense at that statement, and I was dismissed with no less then the "F-enheimer". I stated, "I meant, no offense", and offered to shake hands with Chris who had correctly guessed who I was by then, to no avail. It did leave me wondering about the level of "professionalism" (that is always stated by Dr. Ann) that she could not even carry on a civil conversation with someone who might not always hold a analogous viewpoint, I guess it fits right in,,,,, silt measuring