The week we dredged a 1912 steam engine out of the riverbed

We were on a channel job near St. Louis when the bucket hit something solid that wasn't rock. Took us two days with a grapple to pull up a complete, rusted Corliss steam engine from a sunken barge. The museum paid us a $5000 finder's fee, but the real win was seeing that piece of history. Anyone else ever pull up something that stopped the whole job cold?

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alicec8610d ago

Found a whole wooden crate of old whiskey bottles once. Mud preserved the labels and everything. Boss let us keep one each, rest went to a collector.

diana64110d ago

Honestly that's kind of a bummer to me. Those bottles belong in a museum or something, not with some private buyer. The whole crew that found it should have had way more say. Tbh it just feels wrong to dig up history and then sell most of it off. That collector probably just locked it away in a vault.