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Auburn Dive Team members help guide a boat that sank on July 5 into shore on Saturday. John Volkernick and his son Brian Volkernick, both of Dixfield, located it with sonar on July 24. Divers lifted it to the surface using air bags on Saturday. “We floated the motor and boat to the surface, then floated it to the (local) snowshoe club,” dive team instructor Tim Barclay said early Saturday evening by email.
Auburn Dive Team volunteer divers work to lift a sunken boat to the surface of Worthley Pond in Peru on Saturday.
Auburn Dive Team volunteer divers work Saturday to raise a boat to the surface of Worthley Pond in Peru. The team had been searching for the boat, which sank on July 5 with five adults aboard. They were rescued by campers.
On the morning of July 24, John Volkernick and his son Brian Volkernick, both of Dixfield, located the boat that sank on July 5 in Worthley Pond in Peru by using John’s Lowrance HDS 1O with side-scan capabilities. Auburn Dive Team members then worked on Saturday morning at the location marked by the Volknernicks to lift the boat and its motor to the surface and hauled it to shore.
Auburn Dive Team volunteers, center, work Saturday to raise a boat they’ve been searching for that sank July 5 with five adults aboard. Team instructor Tim Barclay said many variables are involved in lifting tons of water trapped in hundreds of pounds of steel and fiberglass in a combination of neutral buoyancy and dead weight with air bags. “If the boat cooperates near the surface, we will tow it to the state boat launch, but if not, we will pull it to the closest safe exit area,” he said.
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