I took a tank video

Paul B · Apr 25, 2014

I can't even see it because my computer is made out of wood so I am not even sure if it works. :smokin:

stunreefer · Apr 25, 2014

It works

Who wants a ship in a bottle when you can have a clown in a bottle?

Paul B · Apr 25, 2014

Yeah, he lives there.

vlangel · Apr 25, 2014

O Paul, my husband is a bottle collector and he'd have a fit if he saw that old bottle in your tank. Other than that lookin good!

Paul B · Apr 25, 2014

Vlangel see this "ancient" bottle? I made it, it is not that old. Many of my bottles I found while diving in the Atlantic in New York the rest I aged to look like that.

Paul B · Apr 25, 2014

That bottle in the video is one of 9. That is a Grand Marnier bottle which I also made to look like that. This bottle is relatively new

vlangel · Apr 25, 2014

So relieved that most of the bottles have been tampered with.LOL Here's a pic of what Dave collects. Mostly old soda's before bottling machines came on the scene. He has some bottles as old as the 1840s.

vlangel · Apr 25, 2014

He has more than a few! LOL

Paul B · Apr 26, 2014

Nice collection. He would love it here. For many years I dove here in New York and there are 2,000 shipwrecks around Long Island many from the sailing days and in those days no one dove except me so I collected a lot of bottles. There is a tiny Island here caller Huckelberry Island just off the Bronx that was used as a party and gambling Island during prohibition. When the cops or Feds would get near, they would throw all the bottles into the sea. They would put liquer in any kind of bottle as it was illegal. I collected dozens of antique bottles there, some are in my tank. That Island is about a mile behind this old Lighthouse that was commissioned by George Washington and is another of my dive sites.

I am at that Lighthouse here. They did an episode of Ghost Hunters here.

vlangel · Apr 26, 2014

Every once in a while he buys one that has come out of a lake or the ocean. I doubt he'll take up diving however... He lost a leg to cancer 10 years ago. It doesn't keep him from doing the things he wants and he still rides a motorcycle but I don't see him taking up diving.LOL

Paul B · Apr 26, 2014

Yes, diving may be tough. If I didn't already put most of those bottles in my tank, I would send him one.
We also occasionally find round bottom bottles that were filled with sand and used as ballast in sailing ships from Europe. Those round hulled ships could not sail without ballast so they filled them with these bottles and threw them out here to fill the ships with gold and Myley Cyrus CDs to bring back to the Old World. :crazy:

vlangel · Apr 26, 2014

Actually I am glad the bottles are in your tank, I don't have to dust them there. LOL. I banished Dave's bottles to the hall because I didn't want to dust them weekly. I did tell hi!m he could decorate the finished basement or a bedroom with them but he wanted them where people could see them. Folks have to go in the hall to use the bathroom so its worked pretty well except that he's just about filled the hallway up with them. Not sure where they will spill over into!