Under water Ghost hunting

DANNY22XX

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/30848813#30848813

Paranormal divers plan summer of ghost-hunting in Tampa Bay


Paranormal divers plan summer of ghost-hunting in Tampa Bay


Lee Ehrlich, co-founder of Ghost Pros, leaps into the water during a training diving trip in Tampa Bay.


By GAYLE GUYARDO
Media General News Service
Published: May 26, 2009

Those who die at sea might never leave the water — body or soul. And if they’re still there, perhaps haunting the reefs and shipwrecks where they perished, Paranormal Divers aims to find them.

The Cape Coral-based company is preparing for a summer of ghost-hunting in Bay area waters, with investigations of the Gunsmoke, a shrimp trawler that mysteriously sank with a cargo of marijuana 14 miles west of Egmont Key in 1977; the Blackthorn, a Coast Guard buoy tender that collided with a freighter in 1980, killing 23 seamen; and the waters beneath the old Sunshine Skyway, where 35 people died after a freighter rammed the bridge in ‘80.

“We pick a wreck that has some potentially haunted history and then we check it out,“ says Lee Ehrlich, president of Ghost Pros Paranormal Inc.

The company films its search and sells the videos, which weave in the story of the site — fact and lore — and the Paranormal Divers’ experience.

“We look for the stories, the romance,“ Ehrlich says. “We’re putting the ghost back in the ghost ship.“

At each site, the dive team first sets up sonar drones to record the underwater sounds. The recordings are analyzed “to determine what sounds you are not suppose to hear ... possibly sounds of the paranormal,“ Ehrlich says.

To capture the sights, Paranormal Divers has teamed with Tampa-based SeaViewer Underwater Video Systems, whose clients include The Discovery Channel, NOAA’s National Weather Service, The Army Engineers and ESPN. SeaViewer’s high-definition studio cameras were used to film scenes in the Russell Crowe movie “Master and Commander”.

Once all the recorded data is collected, Ghost Pros will plan a nighttime excursion. At the Gunsmoke, Ehrlich says, divers will thoroughly explore the wreckage.

“What makes the Gunsmoke compelling is nobody knows what happened,“ he says.

The trawler was found abandoned and sinking in January 1977, according to news accounts. Ehrlich says two people disappeared.

“We want to go into that ship, really see what’s in there,“ he says.

The divers will also watch for the telltale glow of bioluminescence light forms and listen for unusual sounds.

Ehrlich says he’s not trying to convince anyone of paranormal activity.

“We offer our evidence in good-faith for both Scientific (as applicable) and Entertainment value, and it is up to the viewer to believe what he or she feels is the truth,“ according to a disclaimer at http://www.ghostpros.com.

But the sites Ghost Pros explores are rich in lore, and the explorations are fascinating, Ehrlich says.

“If you were to die in some strange setting,“ he says, “wouldn’t you want to know that someone was looking for you?“

Intresting to see some results,,if any:eek:

Oryx

God that would be a wonderful jaunt*. But given that sound travels miles underwater, and that you have flouresence at night, I could see there being some false positive results!


*I can dive, and all. Handy.

liah

Dear god that would scare the crap out of me for so many different reasons.

My only phobia is deep, dark, murky water because a) I can't make out what's coming at me and b) if it was something dangerous they'd be one hell of a lot faster than me in the water! Pair that with shipwrecks and ghost stories.. not a good combo! :eek:

6th

Oh Hell I would love that!

Stoner

i think it's all just teams trying to be different TBH. Maybe it is a mixture of exploring that would make it exciting, but its not exactly like teams have run out of land based ghosts is it.

Next thing we will hear a statement from some pseudo scientific team about there being 4 tonnes of ghosts under the sea for every 1 tonnes found on land.

It is something I'd like to do, but its just going for dramatics from an investigation point of view IMO. A very valid point could be made that it is a potential "medium" to find ghosts that needs to be eliminated or explored, but IMO that is not the intention for many such actions, bearing in mind that I dont know what these guys are like, my slightly dubious opinion is based on the fact that practice and theory that has yielded zero results above water is being applied under water, just because it is different.

think of all the radio shows you could do about waterproofing your evp recorder, next it will be ghosts on the moon.

On the whole I'd say it would be great to give it a go, but many of the problems we have on land will still be there under water + the added sounds from a blue whale 10 miles away on your recorder (if you know what a blue whale sounds like on a Z4 recorder that you have stuffed into a hot water bottle). I think I'd spend the time looking for gold and old swords.