Besides the intrinsically fun story, I really enjoyed the small-town news vibe of the whole article – the local guy who discovers the sunken taxi while fishing, takes a photo of its hubcap, samples some of the whisky, and takes a selfie showing his wincing reaction to the "rough" second bottle. In ye olden days, local newspapers would be full of charmingly mundane stories like these alongside town council minutes, the results of the 5K fun run, and lots of classifieds.
For all the hate that the CBC gets, I actually do think they do a pretty good job most of the time.
CBC gets hate perhaps because it's intellectual. Growing up in a house with no TV it was on all the time. The best news, comedy, and music, and programs like Ideas to make you think. The US has PBS, but it has never felt quite like peak CBC to me. Of course this was 40+ years ago, YRMV now.
The CBC gets hate for being politically biased and involved, while being publicly funded. Many if not most of the people calling for defunding the cbc still believe it often produces high quality content.
CBC is far from intellectual. There’s far more politically neutral programming about current events out there including Steve Paiken on TVO. CBC News editors seem to be very selective about chosen stories and which seem to align with the narrative of the current political party. There’s little room for playing devils advocate. While they have a mission for diversity, it’s clearly not a diversity in thought they strive to represent.
“I was excited. I almost gave up fishing for the day.”
I love how he almost gave up fishing.
He says the car is "too fragile to remove," so it will stay at the bottom of Larder Lake for other divers to enjoy.
I'm sure that would give a few YouTubers some ideas. "Submerged for almost 90 years, will it run?"
This is what an intact one looks like: https://www.flickr.com/photos/carphotosbyrichard/51802374832
I'm curious if there were any way to bring up the whiskey bottles without losing the contents when they pop? Something like an underwater bag that they can place the whiskey into, then pump out any air, and pour the popped whiskey from the bag into the bottle when they're on the surface.
I think if they are popping from coming up, that means the pressure forced lake water into the bottle around the cork, and so the contents are corrupt anyway.
Still safe to drink, just not a preseved example of whatever it was originally.
Destroying 3 out of 6 of something is a terrible custodial record. Especially the other 2 after they already had the 1st explode.
It gives all non-professionals a bad name and gives elitist professionals ammo against anyone but themselves daring to dig or explore or even be interested in anything without a license.
Something like a decompression chamber.
Needle through the cork.
Did not expect to see my home pop up on the front page of HN — I live in Northern Ontario, and only a ten hour drive from where this article is set!
More seriously, I did actually live just an hour south of there briefly. Northern Ontario is a big place.
Can someone explain why the corks popped on the surface but not in the water? What is the pressure at the bottom of lake keeping the corks in?
Looking at a map, I'm surprised that's considered Northern Ontario
> There was no gold, but they did spot six bottles in the back of what they now know is a 1929 REO Flying Cloud.
I would also pay a publicist to create this historical record
Aaaand Far Cry 5 just became even more Canadian.