Business idea – small salvage by boat

salvage boat idea – get underwater camera, drone, winch, etc., Sonar fishy thing + Navionics (etc) to map floor,

salvage shit, resell scrap, finds, treasures at appropriate places (Kijiji, eBay, garage sale, auction, etc)

service to find things (maybe not recovery of anything large, but at least quickly find).

am I trying to be Nick or Relic of the Beachcombers

federal/prov/eco funding

need to check regs – who owns what?  legality of hauling crap out of waters (like it’s a bad thing?)  – seems like very little law on this, except if salvaging a boat/car/airplane.

can test some ideas with small “fishing” magnet; how much cost to salvage $

As always, someone else has already thunk this up…


Examples of revenue generation:

magnet fishing

Youtube channel (no f#$^%$king way!)

Navionics with Vexilar Sonarphone, $150

Underwater cameras or just use GoPro?  Need to be at least “turnable”, if not fully driveable (like Gladius Mini, etc.).

does Larry (OfKathy) have that underwater camera?  maybe he’s not using it anymore

locating valuable logs

2 thoughts on “Business idea – small salvage by boat

  1. I have seen a number of examples over the years of underwater salvaging of wood … usually logs that broke free from booms “back in the day” but I also saw a proposal to harvest trees flooded out when dam reservoirs were created.

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