thedailymail an hour ago

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.

  • joshdavham an hour ago

    For all the hate that the CBC gets, I actually do think they do a pretty good job most of the time.

    • xipho 40 minutes ago

      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.

      • canadiantim 28 minutes ago

        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.

      • goalieca 31 minutes ago

        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.

ziofill an hour ago

“I was excited. I almost gave up fishing for the day.”

I love how he almost gave up fishing.

throwup238 an hour ago

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.

  • userbinator 14 minutes ago

    Something like a decompression chamber.

  • Brian_K_White 35 minutes ago

    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.

  • dekhn an hour ago

    Needle through the cork.

yieldcrv an hour ago

> 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

jrootabega 14 minutes ago

Aaaand Far Cry 5 just became even more Canadian.