Three weeks after his Seafair, Steve Morris is still trying to solve a mystery.
"I just don't know whether it's identifiable," he said.
Morris and his family had anchored out on Lake Washington to watch the Blue Angels and when they pulled the anchor up, along came a piece of old twisted metal with curious paint markings.
His first thought was maybe an old plane. The floor of the lake is littered with them, along with hundreds of boats, coal cars from the late 1800s, and plenty of garbage. So we talked to a couple of salvage experts who've scanned the bottom of the entire lake. They were in Alaska so we sent them pictures.
"I don't think it's aviation. I'd go so far as to say it's not. Just because the amount of rivets, the size of the rivets, the size of the screws and having wood frame behind it," said Robert Mester.
Morris isn't disappointed. He has no plans to keep his find, he just wants to know what it is and whether it's historically important.
Mester and partner Mark Allen said it could be any number of things marine-related, but they won't know without a closer look. And even then, there's no guarantee.
