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4 April 2015
Posted by Chris Bateman
Harbour Master Angus Armstrong knows the bottom of the
Toronto Bay like the back of his hand. A police diver for 26 years and an
employee of the Toronto Port Authority (now PortsToronto) for 14, Armstrong has
seen everything from classic cars to home made concrete sailing ships dragged
off the mucky lake bed. […]
We asked Armstrong to draw on his 40 years experience
and tell us about the strangest things found in the Toronto Harbour.
[…] While working with the police dive unit in the
1980s, Armstrong and his team discovered a brand new racing green Jaguar sports
car submerged in the Western Gap near the foot of Bathurst St. It had an
all-leather interior and was presumably very, very expensive.
"We hauled it out of the water and we find it had
been reported stolen, but the keys were inside it," Armstrong says.
"So we called back the owner and he confesses. He says: 'Well, officer, I didn't
want to say it before, but it's a gift from my wife and I'd gone to my
girlfriends apartment. I guess my wife followed me and she jumped out of her
car and jumped into my car with the spare set of keys, drove it down to the
harbour, and shot it into the lake."
"The insurance company didn't cover that!" […]