July 21 (UPI) — A group of treasure hunters searching a Canadian lake were successful in their attempt to find some unusual sunken treasure: a bottle of whiskey that has been in the lake since 1964.
Dieter Mueller of Barrie, Ontario, said he has been fascinated by the tale of Otter Lake’s sunken whiskey ever since several bottles were lost when a neighbor crashed his boat into a dock in 1964. Advertisement
Mueller said he found a stash of underwater bottles while swimming once in the 1960s, but he was unable to reach them, so when he returned to the lake July 15 he brought friend Adam Blokzyl and diving expert Dave Davison to help.
Mueller said the group was getting ready to pack it up for the day when Davison found three bottles underwater, and one was still sealed and intact.
“I was vindicated. We were successful,” Mueller told BarrieToday.com.
Mueller said Davison spotted more bottles buried under debris at the bottom of the water and they are planning to return to see if they can find more that remain sealed.
He said the whiskey was produced by the Gooderham & Worts company, which discontinued the spirit in the 1990s.
“Whiskey is usually aged 12 years before it’s sold. So this stuff could be 69 years old,” he said.
Source: UPI
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A Ugandan weightlifter who went missing from a pre-Olympics camp in western Japan has been flown home a few hours before the official start of the Games.
Julius Ssekitoleko is currently being held at Uganda police headquarters to determine whether or not he had committed a crime, CID Spokesperson Charles Twino said.
He left the camp a week ago and was later found by the authorities buying a railway ticket.
Ssekitoleko’s mother, pregnant wife and government officials who had travelled to Uganda’s Entebbe airport to meet him on Friday morning did not get an opportunity to greet him on arrival.
In a statement, the ministry of foreign affairs said the athlete was being “rehabilitated”.
It said the government would “help him understand how such acts of misconduct cannot only affect him as an athlete but also other athletes in the sports sector and the nation at large”.
When he disappeared, Ssekitoleko had left a note saying he wanted to stay in Japan and work.
