try your local fire dept. now the fire dept itself wont help you, but Im sure one around you has a dive team and divers love to dive. so maybe for fun or even training they may would help you out. its worth a shot

If you know pretty much where they are you can do it this time of year with a good wetsuit. I did it a few years back getting a boat off the bottom. Was probbaly down for 10 minutes in 45 degree water at False River just using a wetsuit and a neoprene hood. Be prepared to have a way to warm up after, but if its just a simple down and sweep a small area you can do it with some shrinkage of course :)

Did you try using a retriving magnet. that might be alittle easier to come by then a wetsuit

i have tried a magnet 5ft long with no luck this is my last shot is to get a diver in the water but need dry suit the water is 37 degress thats cold. doesnt look good

how deep was it? and was their any current in the area

it was 14ft and it had current i took a gun back with me a few days later and tied a rope to it and threw it in to see where they would have went they didnt go far the water is now 6 to 8 feet deep with logs and other tree tops in where thy droped

good luck. sounds grim

its a small area 12ft x 40ft that they can be in just need a dry suit

you could call underwater adventures in baton rouge. they may rent dry suits, but even better, Im sure they prolly know someone in your area that has one or point you to a local dive shop where you can rent one. I would call them if the fire dept cant help you

well i guess its not but one thing to do go swimming its goning to be cold

Why don't you try renting a large magnet? That's the way we always fetched back up guns lost overboard. We even recovered a 40hp Yamaha that one of our duck hunting buddies knocked off in the river on Toledo Bend with one.

were did yall rent the magnet at ? i have one that is 5ft long 6inch wide and 2 inch thick. was it bigger than the one i have

my cousin is a diver , i know he will get them for you e-mail me if you need his number

well rain has come and gone the river is going to rise 4 to 5ft so i want be needing a diver any more the guns are history . thanks for all the help.

Since they came out, I have always used floating gun cases that coast $30-40. I have never tested them, but I assume they work.

In regards to the lost guns, they weigh less than 10#. A strong current may be able to move that gun down river.

There is a guy from Laffite named John Estes who dives ,not to be confused with John Estes the shrimper from da'Parish, he helped me get a shrimp boat up that I sank one winter and he seems like he really does it for the adventure and love of diving as he only charged me $200 for a long days work , I dove on the boat myself as I am a certified diver and dude it was rough , I was so tangled up in wing net and rigging with a couple of thousand pounds of shrimp in zero visibillity water and I kinda freaked and had enough so I called him in ,if you want I could dig up his number

dig up his number and as soon as the river goes back down maybe it will be a little warmer

Sorry I didn't report back I recoverd the guns I found the benelli 5 month latter and the beretta 7 month . They would still shoot and no rust they were in fresh water . Anyway here is what I learned . The were not in floating gun Casey's thank god. Because they were only about 7ft from were we turned over :........................from now on. My guns will be in floating gun case with a steel cable hook to the boat . You can find the boat