re: What items of yours are sitting at the bottom of the gulf/ocean/river?

One 17 ft whaler without positive floatation and all equipment.
Several watches
A dozen pairs or more of sunglasses.
Full sailboat rig and sail and the fiberglass deck it was stepped into.
Lots of hats, shirts, and clothing.
Several pairs of boots - always only lost 1 boot/shoe at a time while swimming.
Couple lower units from the outboards.
About a dozen leathermans. I was losing 1 every 2-3 months for a while.

Mostly everything in Lake Pontchartain, but that boats out in the gulf SW of the river.

Leathermans are all over the place though.

Prop
Tool box
Wireline jars
Sunglasses

I have a trolling motor at the bottom of Concordia.

3 rod/reel sets in the Amite River

A couple anchors

A rig hook behind East Timbalier

One phone

A pair of sunglasses

At least 2 flashlights.

One 2500 watt generator

A couple nets

I had my line break at the reel when trying to net a fish I'm 99% certain would have honestly challenged the state record spotted bass

Oh yeah, the engine on that boat was a year old Johnson when it went down.

Wedding ring in Caney lake
9.9 in Chatham pond

2 pairs of costas, one of which were 580's.

I don't go to econfina creek anymore

Stuff at the bottom of ocean/lake etc

Well I cant beat the camp or boat posts from earlier but I have worked/recreated on the water for 30+ years so Neptune has claimed his fair share from me.

Highlights include:
Spearguns – generally attached to a fish
Dive gear – was on a boat that rolled over 30 mi out – I had my gear on (I was in water – yeah it’s a loooonnnngg story) but back up set, tanks, wallet, etc all gone – but Chevron did give me a free helicopter ride in to Fourchon – woulda been cool if I had not done it on about 400 other occasions
Lost another set of gear while working from a platform ……….
dive knives – I never bought a more than $20 dive knife as I went thru those like Shiite thru a goose ……
Pocket knives/leathermen – many, again if its more than $30 I am not buying it
Sunglasses – many, no $200 costas for me
Surprisingly – no guns or rods – course if the guberment gets too close a tragic boating accident will happen w the firesticks
Work stuff- I worked offshore for 10+ years and then around water for 20 more so we had 2 of everything we owned. Really didn’t lose much valuable stuff – I have had everything hung up on something over time but Neptune generally gave it back. Neptune does have a well stocked tool box, flashlights, radios, all the stainless nuts/bolts he should need. When you put stuff in the water it will leak eventually. An older oceanographer told me once that when the bubbles stop its full and pretty much every piece of instrumentation I have put in the water has leaked at some point in time over the years including ROVs, current meters, transducers, DO meters, various receivers, cabling …………..

And I have only been on 2 boats that have sunk - I did recover a sunken boat so does that mean my plus/minus on boats is -1 now ?

Calcutta w/ gloomis rod

Shirts, hats, my virginity, 2 rod & reels, countless lures, knives, pliers, ammo, etc.

A hat and an inshore rod n' reel. Both are at the bottom of the MRGO. I'm pretty good about holding onto my stuff while on a boat.