r/discgolf • u/Rich-Usual-3595 • 15h ago
Discussion My lost disc just resurfaced…thanks to a scuba diver in Vermont
So this is a wild one.
Apparently, a guy went scuba diving in a quarry in Vermont and pulled up 125 discs from the bottom. And somehow, one of them was mine.
He reached out and offered to mail it back, and I agreed just for the sheer story behind it. A disc lost to the depths, living in the dark for who knows how long, and then resurrected by a diver with an air tank.
Can’t wait to have it back…not sure I would bag it ever again.
Anyone else ever had a disc come back to them in such a ridiculous way?
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u/cojonathan 15h ago
I found the same disc twice in a row the past two weeks, always just lying on the fairway. I look forward to finding it again this week for the Hattrick
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u/avsfan1933 9h ago
I went out of town for a tournament this weekend. Found six discs through three rounds. They belonged to two people.
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u/5william5 6h ago
Haha I have a similar story. In the tournament yesterday a group found the same green lots 3 holes in a row. He really didn't want that disc haha
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u/poharra 15h ago
My son was playing with his Pig at the local community college, where the course is partly in a field. He got a call from a rancher the next state over who found his Pig in a hay bale when he was feeding cattle. The old boy didn't even know what it was but called the number on the back of the disc. My son wanted it but didn't want to bother the man, so he didn't ask for it back. I love the disc's journey, however.
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u/InvisibleTacoSnack 15h ago
I threw one into Canada at the border and someone found it and contacted me and mailed it back. Cloudbreaker send over to the border crossing
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u/Not_a_fan_of_me 14h ago
I got a call from the parks department in Montrose Colorado. They had drained a lake in a park for some work and found hundreds of discs. They were calling any that had numbers so they could try to return them to their owners. I had written it off ten years ago and told them to donate it to a local group.
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u/Whackaboom_Floyntner 15h ago
Once I launched a disc off a cliff at Oregon's Cascade Locks. It must have hit a thermal because it found a line and just kept soaring until it hit a far tree - it was as though it was on ice in Disc Golf Valley. Anyhow, months later, some lady found it deep in the forest, god knows how far from the tee. She called me because she wanted to see what sort of person could throw that far.
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u/shutts67 14h ago
Is that where you lost it? There was one week where I got 2 phone calls (please just text the number on the disc) about someone finding my disc. One was in Michigan and one was in Wisconsin. The discs were lost in Indiana.
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u/TheRealMickstar 13h ago
You're complaining that someone called you to return a lost disc? LOL
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u/shutts67 13h ago
Yes. And even worse, they left voice mail.
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u/Bradadonasaurus 7h ago
I always call just in case you're only a hole or two ahead of me, and I can catch you before you leave.
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u/Unreal_Idealz 15h ago
125 is insane, haha. Wonder how he pulled them all up and how deep it was. If I was him I'd setup a little shop to recover the cost of oxygen and other gear. Cool story!
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u/Team_Flight_Club 13h ago
From the sounds of it, this disc would have been pulled out of a course called The Quarries in Barre, VT. Some really fun shots and a bunch of old water hazard as you play through the old mining areas.
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u/SolidDoctor 14h ago
I hear the quarries here in Vermont are insane. A friend of mine was a scuba instructor and he used to scuba dive in abandoned quarries, and take pictures of himself sitting behind the wheel of numerous vehicles that were driven into the water.
But 125 discs? Were people finding them and then just throwing them in the water or was there some basket nearby?
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u/scott_beowulf 14h ago
Probably the water carry at Quarries in Barre. It’s only a little over 100 feet but uphill with a solid rock fairway. Super cool course. One of the favorites I’ve ever played.
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u/life_like_weeds MI 12h ago
One of the tees is on top of a cliff above a huge quarry. The hole doesn’t go that way but lots of people just chuck a beater out there to see how far they can go
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u/zigster23 13h ago
I found a disc on the wide open fairway of my local course in NJ. Texted the number and the guy hadn’t seen the disc in over 15 years! Someone had obviously found the disc and just put it in their bag for a while.
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u/Forsaken_Shelter1054 11h ago
Yup! Mine was one of the 125 discs he found. I have a few more in that hole that must be beyond his reach.
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u/jjflipped 15h ago
I lost a disc there on the shortest hole. In the leaves. Looked for ages. Guy that ran the league found it and I told him to donate to a CTP or something, as I live multiple states away. Awesome course.
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u/DiZZYDEREK 14h ago
I lost one on that exact same course but a different hole and it turned up 30 miles away, but that's not that crazy. Those quarries are so deep i am surprised he pulled as many as he did. Some of those are 300+ feet deep of water
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u/DavidoftheDoell 14h ago
I bought a disc second hand with a speckled rust pattern on it. The previous owner said it sat in a creek for two days. I like that it has character and a story.
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u/coopaliscious Meteors are awesome! 14h ago
Same dude just gave me a call about an Avenger SS I lost playing Sugarbush a couple years ago that he'd pulled out in the same dive. The funny part is that he had returned that same disc to me once before and a couple others over the years. I told him to please keep it to sell to fund keeping on doing the good work.
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u/WarOtter 14h ago
Nice! I would ask for it back as well for the story. Too bad it wasn't an Anchor.
I just today got a call back on a Firebird I lost on my home course two months ago. Still hoping someone returns my champion tie dyed Beast.
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u/CebronJames 12h ago
I lost a disc at Dabney State Park outside of Portland. Hole 9 for those who know the course, in the long position. Our spotter said it skipped on the green and then we never found it. Got a call 2 months later and it was in North Bend, Washington. Got my zeus back though, but a heck of a journey.
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u/dangleswaggles 10h ago
Not super ridiculous, but last year I chucked a brand new Grace into the middle of a lake that has a ton of gators in it. Got a text from the league that plays there it was returned. I don’t know how it was found.
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u/Embarrassed_Gold4101 Quest for 1000 4h ago
I got a box of like 100 of my old discs from around 1999 to 2006 from a course owner here who'd bought them from my ex at a garage sale years before. He recognized me and gladly gave them back for nothing (a big box of minis too). Great human, wild story, and now I have my '93 viper back!
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u/Longjumping-Rip9867 52m ago
I have an orange factory 2nd Katana that I found on my first ever round just sitting at the edge of a rough patch with no ink to return it. I was over the moon! I have since lost it and have had it returned or found it myself days later at least 10 times. I call it Boomerang, it always comes back.
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u/Bradtothebone79 14h ago
Yes! I happened to be at my parent’s house one day when the land line phone rang. (Geez this was probs twenty years ago now.) I grew up there so i answered the phone and the caller asked for [first initial] [last name]. I instantly knew it was disc related because that’s how i marked my discs, and the discs i had bought in high school would have all had that phone number on them.
Dude confirmed he had a disc to return on the condition he could get a picture with me and the disc which i thought was weird.
Anyway, met up with him to find the back of the disc had been filled with short messages, largely in English, with some Japanese, Portuguese and German tossed in.
Dude said his friend was an English teacher in Japan, had been home a couple years prior and found my disc. He then brought it back to Japan and played with it there, had his class write the messages, and sent it back to his friend asking to return it to me and send a picture.
So my disc has played in Japan and I’ve never been. Retired that disc.