Shared this over on the 48-56 forum. Thought I'd show it to this crowd too.

Here's a fun one that I came across while looking for new and adventurous scuba diving sites. This would be a fun visit at Lake Okoboji in Iowa. I enjoy diving wrecks...though this would be my first non-maritime vessel!

The story: Among the wrecks on the bottom of West Lake Okoboji are two significant dive sites—one placed on the bottom, the other arrived by accident.

Divers knew the story of the accident. In 1948, a 1935 Ford truck used in ice harvesting, slipped into the water and sank into Smith’s Bay. Searchers couldn’t find the truck and assumed it had rusted away until Debbie Skarin of Spirit Lake stumbled across it in 2000. She too was unable to relocate the truck. Summer resident, Jim Koenig of Charles City diligently searched the area for two seasons before finding and fixing its position on May 30, 2001. It rests in the middle of the bay on a hard sand bottom facing west-northwest in 20 feet of water.






1935 Ford 1.5 Ton at the bottom of Lake Okoboji





1935 Ford 1.5 Ton at the bottom of Lake Okoboji

 

That is cool. Thanks for sharing. Sad to see the thing under water. Makes you wonder how many other things are lost under lakes or oceans.

 

Pretty cool pic. I see that the grill shell is missing.
Someday the Ford will be on dry ground again.

 

Just goes to show the value of the early ford grill shells. This is a really cool post. Thanks for sharing!

 

that would be cool to see! Imagine just out for a swim and finding something like that!

 

Thats not to far from me. I wonder who owns it or if someone would complain about dragging it out? That would be an epic recovery.

 

It probably has water in the carburetor !

 

Yeah, if it won't start it might be flooded.

 

Lots of different maritime laws involving stuff like that. Possibly you could apply for salvage rights.

 

One of my model AAs came with a stack of model A magazines and there was an article about an A that went thru the ice 30 years prior. The local Model A nuts dragged it out and had it running the following weekend and drove it around the block a few times.

 

i wonder what shape the steering wheels in??

 

Bust out the aqua-lung... Road trip!

 

you know on the other hand i will see what i can find in portland, i had no luck finding one at turlock i ve been told large truck interchanges 32 to 37

 

I just saw pictures of that last week.
When I lived in Wasilla, Alaska, they was rumored to be a 56 Corvette on the bottom of Wasilla lake, went through the ice in the early 60s. It is so murky and silty I don;t think anyone ever tried to find it.

 

If it was a proper automobile you could go fishing for it with a magnet. And when you lived in Wasilla could you see Russia from your house?