update, on shipwreck plundering:

we did not find a new boom… but did excavate a few months’ old wreck- found an anchor chain that is in much better shape than the one we have now.

the extraction mission was an insane ordeal involving the four of us dragging the (many hundred pounds worth of) chain in chain-gang fashion across the whole island, some of us wearing backpacks loaded with chain, some of us wrapping huge amounts of it around our bodies.

it looked ludicrous