I drove to a beaver dam about 1.3 miles downstream from where I lost my Equinox. I figured there would be no way my Equinox 800 could get through it. I walked upstream through the water and along the shore in places. After a little over 4 hours of searching
I FOUND IT!!!!!!
It was on the bottom of the stream 5 feet under -- about 50 yards downstream from where I lost it. Today the water was about 1 foot lower than when I lost it on Sunday. That extra foot of water is why I didn't see it until today.
I came home soaking wet and very cold, but happy.
It looks to be in good shape, but I am not going to try turning it on until I can check to see if there is water inside the head unit. If its wet it, powering it on could fry some circuits. Tonight I will do some research to find out how to take apart the head unit to get any water out.
I found a lot of stuff during the search. A small portion of what I found is shown in the attached photo. Also a photo of me and the pole I used for balance when walking over the wet and rocky stream bottom. On one end of the pole I had a powerful light in a watertight Ziploc bag taped onto the end of the pole.
I was amazed (and disgusted) by the amount of trash people toss into the stream. There was far too much for me to carry back to the truck. But I took it out of the stream and placed it along the shore. In the coming days I plan to bring a backpack and haul out as much as I can. (I will not need to go back in the water).
Below is a photo of me, my Equinox 800, and my balance pole after I got home. And the second photo is some of the stuff I found today and yesterday during my search. I will go back in the coming days to recover more of the finds. One is a large US Flag. I got it out of the stream and placed it on a large boulder to dry. I also found some large propane tanks, probably used by homeless people camped along the stream.
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