My father sailed out of Halifax on corvettes escorting convoys across the Atlantic during WWII. He said that sometime the weather was so rough on the return trip that most of the silverware in the messes ended up under lockers. Once they got back to Halifax there was always a few of the crew picked to clean up the ship before heading off on leave so to speed up the process they would just gather up what they could find and throw it out the portholes. In his words "The bottom of Halifax harbour is paved in silver"!
Years ago I worked on the engineering for dredging the narrows and the throat of the basin. The things that we dredged up were scary. From old car parts to WWII bombs. Not to mention the pollution such as pools of mercury.
I remember back in the day, when vacuums were sold door to door, training included a tricky tactic of making the vaccum look like it sucked up way more than it ever would or could.
Let’s have a look at the mud and anchor marks at bottom of a harbour …. OR. Feed and house some homeless citizens…. Hmmmm. Mud is more interesting. Let’s do that. So we can show. Justin that it’s ok to dump more stuff in the harbour…
As a navy veteran for 20 years back in the day, I can tell you that in the navy dockyard area alone there has to be thousands of items on the floor bottom tossed out of scuttles of navy ships for the past 200+ years. We'll see.
One thing that the Indians have to offer is free tv i pay 150 a year and dont regret it one bit free sports free movies free tv i used to pay 80 bucks a month for rogers cable and still would have to pay extra so see the hockey game or basketball... My mom gets to watch her reality tv everyone in my house enjoys this i know i could even be getting these services cheaper but i dont mind supporting a small business owner who is giving a service to working people like me and you.
I was told by a former Volvo employee that those cars were intentionally placed in the Basin to test various rust treatments that they were using on the car bodies.
Tim Horton's should be sponsoring this, considering the amount of garbage that business creates every day. How many Timmie's cups there are on the harbour floor, do you think? I'm betting several hundred thousand.
I was so hoping I was going to hear something about the Monte-Blanc and the 1917 Halifax explosion, some evidence of the event still visible on the sea floor.
