The best bargain of the day was the lady who bid Au$1 for a fibreglass
dinghy and got it!

Thats about 37p in the UK and 59c in the US.
Julian

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Strike" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 2:05 PM
Subject: [SCUBA-SE] The Police Divers Auction


> Julian, Adrian and myself - together with several hundred other people -
> turned up for this morning's auction of maritime miscellanea, (including
> surplus diving equipment from the NSW Police Diving Unit.  :-)
>
> Apart from cylinders, regs, Divator FFM's (with BuddyPhone Comms), gas
> panels, umbilicals - and a collection of fishing rods!!! - were a number
of
> Viking Dry Suits (unused) and two second-hand DUI trilaminates.  The major
> negative - Sylvia claims that it was a positive - was the fact that all
bids
> were payable by either cash or bank cheque, (my five dollars and a
> collection of credit cards didn't cut it!) :-)
>
> The Viking dry-suits - red vulcanised rubber with attached latex hoods
that
> would have been perfect for diving in polluted waters - went for between
> AUD$650 and AUD$700.  The large DUI trilams went for AUD$225 and the DUI
> thermals for AUD$105.  The only trouble was that they were blue!  Now if
> they'd been black in colour then it might have been worth making a bid!!!
> :-)
>
> It was worth going, though, just for the people that we hadn't seen for
some
> while.  :-)
>
> Strike
>
> Strike
>