Everytime I dive, I´m always on the look out for treasure. There´s something particularly amazing finding any man made item in the endless sea.

Last week I found treasure, an old pepsi bottle on the bottle of the sea floor filled with sand.

The site where I found the bottle is La Reyna, it´s a large rock formation jutting out of the sea, with a few sea lions leisurely sun bathing on it, and is the furthest dive site Carey goes to, taking about 2 hours to get out to, traveling at 25 knots.

I brought the bottle home and studied it. The bottle has a strange embossed neck design that I´ve never seen before. I did a little internet research and found that my bottle that I found is from a design manufactured during the 1940´s.

Pepsi Bottle Image of the same design

My bottle has little growth on it, perhaps from mineral deposits. The label must have washed away because the only distinguishing marks are it´s particular design and embossment.

Glass soda bottles are something that we rarely see in Washington. They have a whole system here in Mexico of deposits and reusing bottles. We even pay deposits on beer bottles. It´s a good incentive for recycling.

It´s fun to look at my treasure, my pepsi bottle, and think about how a bottle made in the 1940´s ended up on it´s side mostly buried in sand on the bottom of the sea floor so far from civilization near the stone island at La Reyna waiting for me to find it.

View the back of a similar bottle