Whats the strangest thing you've seen floating in the gulf?
 

For those of you who fish offshore or work offshore whats the most unique or random object you've seen floating or caught in a rip or weed line? For me a few years ago I saw about a 10 feetl long pool raft shaped like an alligator caught in a weed line. I always hope to find some contraband or such but no luck so far

A pile of balloons at HI-A350. Got them up on the platform and they were full of paper notes from a church in San Antonio, Tx. that released them a couple weeks before.
They were having a revival or something and set balloons loose to inform people in the area.
I called the number on the piece of paper to let them know where they landed. 100 miles off the La./Tx. coast. They sent me a bible for letting them know. This was in the mid 80's.

Also found an upside down rescue boat that broke loose from a Norwegen Cruise Liner in rough weather.

My sister used to date a guy the was an offshore diver for global, he told me they saw a human hand floating by the rig. I'm thinking mafia related lol

BP Shrimp Boat with NO OIL on it

My old supervisor in the oil field landed on a platform back in late 70s early 80s and they found a man on the plus ten deck with his throat cut:confused:, figured he got in a fight on a work boat and someone served justice.

Once off SW Pass found 1000's of hypodermic needles floating in a rip. Tractor tire holding 52 10# chicken dolphin my ankles were black and blue the next day.
Also 2 huge turtles 20 miles apart in the same day.
Had a wahoo jump out of the wake while the boat was doing 55mph and hit the transom.
A waleshark surfaced about 10 ft from the 23ft boat I was in and i realized how small was out there.
Once a 5# blue fish came out the water 3 times at least 6ft in the air with a 6 ft king mackeral on its tail. With each jump a little closer and the last jump he was inches from catching it.
Had a pod of porposes surface next to the boat with there heads out of the water look at us for a few minutes and all made there noises at us and left.
This was all back in the early 90's before we all had camera phones.

I have found all kinda stuff. Once I saw a dead cow float by all bloated up. Had fish all over it. We were close to the river have seen Alligators, Nutria, old boats. Once in EG we had an upside down Nigerian fishing boat float by. It was after dinner and we were hanging out on the smoke deck looking over the water when we heard someone shouting from the water looked over and there the were. 3 guys clinging to the bottom of this wooded boat for dear life. We called the field boat over and the picked them up. Come to find out there was a 4th guy who couldn't hold on to the boat they found him floating a ways off holding onto a bucket. They got real upset when the work boat wouldn't tow their boat back in. They should have been thankful to be alive! They had been in the water for two days! If you had seen the sharks around there you would not believe that they had lasted that long.

great stories guys

Had a mermaid come up and talk to us once with Don Quiote and the Dos Secees guy.

The had been having a male minage e tois or something...........

But that could have been the LSD..........

As I was reading your post I was thinking to myself he must have been tripping! LOL

Im waiting for an excellent ironman story.

Hang on its taking me a while to make something up :cool:

LOL!

Bin laden!!!!

42 lb speckled trout, sorry no pics, didn't have a camera

Wing off of a target drone...

Left out of Destin got 40 miles out and a bail of weed. Got to the weed line 60 miles out and coke. So we hauled a** west of there to fish. Didn't want no part of that!!

Portapotty... Had some Triple tail stacked under it.

Today, this sail boat passed between Ursa and Mars platforms.
Empty. Just floating N/NW.

This sail boat is passing between Ursa and Mars platforms right now in the Gulf of Mexico. Empty. Anyone want it?

Norwegian Star Cruise Ship rescues the Hokulani out of the Gulf 1 of 2 videos - YouTube

Norwegian Star Cruise Ship rescues the Hokulani out of the Gulf 1 of 2 videos - YouTube

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http://www.sail-world.com/CruisingAu...u-AMVER!/94756

Im surprised it has made it just floating out there. not exactly the best deep water ship to be out on. cant believe it hasnt capsized

I bet there are some nice electronics still on the sailboat. Can't believe it is still floating. They reported it too damaged to continue, I guess not.

Sail boats are very stable due to weight being real low in hull. As long as sail is down it will go on forever. People actually sail across oceans in boats that size.

But not me. Sailing is 2 much work.


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Did they taste kinda crappy? :rotfl:

Not in the gulf but saw an old 19" tv float down the bayou in Montegut.

I've seen bar be que pits, propane tanks. The coolest thing I ever saw was a giant manta ray. We were gigging flounder one night in about 10-12"s of water and the back of this thing was sticking out the water. My uncle picked up some sand and threw it at it and when that thing took off it made a wake like a crew boat!

i found this sign in joes cove

my buddies found 75 pounds of weed about 120 miles southwest of orange beach. best i can figure, it was dropped out of a plane. wrapped in red shrink wrap.

What did they do with it?

probly burned it so no one could get there hands on it:smokin:

thats smart, if they do it in a series of small controlled burns hahahaha

Did yall see where that Japanese fishing boat just recently floated up off the coast of British Columbia? It was swept away during the tsunami.

I saw a whale once!! But soon realized the Wife had gone for a swim.........

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol. That ain't right!!

You must mean my EX wife?!

We went out deep three days before Rita hit us in Cameron and acouple weeks after Katrina had hit NO. The Gulf was glass and we found a 60ft sailboat amongst fridgerators, pieces of roof tops, and the most debree I have seen out there. But under the sailboat there was a giant pile of tripletail and some big cobia. We jumped in with our snorkling equip and me and my friend each shot a nice triple tail and coming back to the boat. Whe I saw the biggest bul shark I have seen in my life in the Gulf Of Mexico. Most sharks I have seen diving act a little curious then seem to lose interest pretty quick and swim off. This big dude came up to the surface and started lapping us getting closer and closer. Friend in the boat saw this occuring, and ran the boat quickly b/w us and the shark. Scary as #hit and something I will never forget seing that big daddy and the feeling that I WAS THE PREY!

Thats crazy. Did yall board that sailboat?

he wouldn't of ate me, cause i don't think the sharks have a taste for human ****!!! It would have been all up in my drawers!!!

Thats how they purge humans before they eat them. Just circle around a few times.

They sold it for like $25,000 after they smoked a good bit.

dayum Chris you come up with some nasty off the wall sheet.

i know it's a gift!!! Just telling the truth! Lol!!!!!!!!

Sure would have purged me! I think working on platforms has cured my desire to get in the water out here. Some of those sharks..... Brrrrrr :eek: