We didn’t think about it until after Friday night’s race and weekend horse show.

First I tried using a 250 lifting magnet with no success. I was not even sure if the glasses were magnetic.

Next was scuba gear. With Morning Star’s bottom paint white and only being able to see a few feet I knew I would have to just feel around the bottom. My concern was I did not know what the bottom would be like. Would it be sand or muck? I would have to touch it in the dark green depths of the North East River to find out.

Descending into the darkness I was hoping for sand but I found at least 8 inches of gooey muck to feel around with nothing to orientate me. After several short dives I developed a system to orient me in the green darkness. I tied a line around the piling, hung a weighted line and used a stick anchored in the bottom to figure out where I was. I was sure I had checked the area where I thought they had fallen in and I expand the search area. Just as I was going to call it quits I found the glasses folded up on the bottom about six to eight feet away from where they fell in.

I then proceed to make the fancy lanyard you see in the pictures to keep this from happening again.