Farflung

The Sky Sponge will no doubt enter and exit the Cooper lexicon as quickly as the Titanium Chef to be released back into the ocean. The only ‘Sky Chef’ I could find is associated with an in-flight chef which makes ‘5 Star’ meals for passengers flying Gulf Air. I have flown on this little airline into Manama (actually Muharraq) and remember some extremely fresh cuisine being served. Just not on the plane. It was a couple days after the flight and I was in a cab heading back to the hotel when the driver asked if he could pick up other passengers along the way. Not being one to hinder commerce or be an ‘Ugly American’ I said sure. It was an unusually cool day with low humidity. First a man in a suit hails the cab and gets in the back with me. We are crawling through the souq (market) on impossibly narrow streets and this man in a dishdasha and thobe holding a rolled newspaper signals the cab and gets in the back placing me between these two gentlemen. Now at the break neck speed of 1 MPH (estimated) on this crowded street we hit a bump and the Bahraini’s newspaper starts jumping around in the back and gave me a good whack upside my wally sized head. This poltergeist continued to pummel the man in the suit who began to shriek and flail as blow after blow were delivered to this dapper passenger. He managed to open the door and ran into the crowd leaving me in the back seat with a Bahraini man savagely slapping that newspaper. Apparently the wife must have sent him out for the freshest fish in the market because this paper was rolled around one that was far from dead and still had plenty of fight. The driver apologized and I told him that I would likely remember this for the rest of my life thus making it far from an inconvenience. Besides I think I may have witnessed a unique event, in that a fish could have bragged about the ‘one that got away.’ So that’s all I know about ‘Sky Chef’ and the freshest food while traveling.

According to this source: http://www.webpronews.com/navigating-the-amazon-sales-ranking-2006-06 Amazon sales rankings (as referenced) is: “2,000,000+ Perhaps a single inventory/consignment copy has been ordered 1,000,000+ Current trends indicate total sales will most likely be under 40 100,000+ Current trends indicate total sales will most likely be under 200 10,000+ Estimate between 1 – 10 copies being sold per week. 1,000+ Estimate between 10 – 100 copies being sold per week. 100+ Estimate between 100 – 200 copies being sold per week. 10+ Estimate between 200 – 1000 copies being sold per week. Under 10 Estimate over 1,000 copies per week” In order to sell 200 to 300 copies per month (46 per week) your book would have to be ranked at 1,000 or less but not below 101. Geoff Gray’s book is ranked at 8711 (as of posting) which indicates sales of 10 to 100 per week. What could this other book be? Perhaps super secret data that has been steeped in titanium sponge? Gosh, whatever made me post this??? Oh well, good to know for future reference.

Here’s a little mental floss smokin99: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIBTg7q9oNc&feature=related Those opening notes by the ‘Tennessee Two’ always cleanses my aural channels. You’re welcome.

It’s a story….. about exotic metals…. and refining that makes it look like foam. From a single source….. it was extracted… and then was overblown. Now you may think…. this sounds familiar…. it depends on which theory that you own. For it’s the same crap… but on a new page… this guano has been thrown. The DZ Bunch, The DZ Bunch, don’t expect any changes…. DZ Bunch. Wow, so Tom Kaye was misquoted? Imagine my shock. I mean using a single source that quotes another unpublished source should be safe. Why cross check things? We know what a waste of time that is because it has already been discussed before and a 26,000 comment thread is concerned about efficiency if anything. That’s too bad with titanium sponge being associated with Boeing and aircraft and aircraft windshield remnants and Airstream trailers. This could have blown the lid off this case and revealed the rarely suggested suspects of Duane and Kenny. Something tells me that the next item coming down the pike will have an association established with both before anyone knows what the heck it is, like ‘Sky Chef’ matches. How about calling this think tank the ‘Brain Storm Cooper’ thread? There could be special equipment with knobs and dials that is too technical for anyone else to comprehend. Sources could originate anywhere and pre plotted answers would be required so people could be cut off, if others dare ask a question that doesn’t match ‘their’ suspect. All you have to do is say ‘all I care about is the truth’ and go back to steering and manipulation. That would be something new at least. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Dln8-Ynbo

smokin99, Here’s a place that makes inert dynamite (something else to nightmare about) for use in training situations (even has government approval). There appears to be a rainbow of colors associated with dynamite and the standard Hollywood or Roadrunner cartoon red is in the minority but appears to exist in inert format today. http://www.inertproducts.com/inert_dynamite If it was my bacon being shown a cluster of red sticks and wires I would get all butch manly man, look Cooper straight in the Ray Bans and say, “Yes sir, what may I do for you?” But don’t think I wouldn’t be cross about this and let my frustration manifest in rage unleashed upon a parking lot attendant, waitress, cashier, hotel maid or someone equally deserving (code for lower economic status).

RobertMBlevins researches dynamite with: “Himmelsbach has said several times that he is sure Cooper did NOT have dynamite. He says the sticks were red, and real dynamite is the color of a manila envelope.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcVe2k4GpKg&feature=related The source image is a stock shot from 123RF.com and in all probability not even a photo of real explosives. Thus rendering the example moot and was selected out of a field of more than a dozen examples of red explosives. Are genuine examples this difficult to obtain? Are genuine answers this cheap?

Something tells me a theory has already been dovetailed into the metal sponge data point with a shocking absence of proof but with a surplus of secret meetings, lost documents and death threats. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,857343,00.html Pretty smart guys way back in ’52 (1,400 tons a year) had already identified the crucial gaps that the stuff would fill in aviation. Not quite a common as door hardware yet but if you have a bicycle. http://www.whiteind.com/bottombrackets.html Near as I can tell the only difference between the stainless axle and the titanium is a weight delta of 64 grams. Crap here’s the metric system soiling my brain again. So 64 grams is 2.25 ounces with prices of $90 for the stainless and $135 for the titanium (universalcycles.com). An exotic metal but not so much that the average person could not own some now. The corrosion resistance is no better than stainless and the heat conducting properties would be irrelevant on a bicycle or even a computer. But people get stupid excited about a product they think is rare or exotic, like Corinthian leather or Cornish game hens. Apple computer made a big stink out of a laptop that had a titanium frame and how it was made out of spy plane stuff. The junk that people will fall for then deny. Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G4 Kinda pointless to make a laptop with lithium batteries and titanium just to have the plastic hinges break. I think the design team used the exotic metals for the wrong things. Nothing better than having a computer geek explain this in pee your pants, excite-o-rama (1:36 to forever it seems). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNHkrnU77m0 I began to tingle (1:53 – 2:10) at the new knowledge I gained by believing that a CEO of a company is the sole holder of all knowledge. Yes, titanium is lighter than aluminum (?)….. using what basis? Density or final product? Right, no one cares because it is the president of Apple so the end. I started to cry (2:44 -2:46) when I realized the customer base needed to be told what a finger was. By the time the audience was whipped into a light froth (5:13- 5:20) with logo orientation I was starting to feel a little funny in my loins too. Such an excellent value (6:25). The word unbelievable was harmed during the making of this video. I think the titanium fetish is over for Apple now.

A customer service agent will rapidly age into a defeated, dried husk of a person when repeated and different questions receive the same answer laced with self righteous indignation and detachment. This occurring after the Amazing Farflungini fore saw the event as if he had direct experience with this phenomenon which is so utterly consistent and universal that I can only marvel at the continued denial of this microcosm of computer users. Routers thoroughly buried in debris pitched out of a well placed litter box, switched outlets with a power strip, malware downloaded via the promise of something free, gummy bear in the ‘E’ drive (it was a pineapple which is translucent so this is understandable), phone line shoved into the Ethernet port, mouse quit working (mouse not plugged into PS2), monitor blank (monitor turned off), sound won’t work (volume set to zero), email does not work (could not remember password) and an Internet order was not delivered, called UPS and vendor to complain (forgot to pay at checkout). Stupid computers. A torrent of tears and pleas of mercy will fall upon deaf, oblivious ears and he will be forced to spend an inordinate amount of time chasing false leads or misinformation while trying to remedy a problem.

I think my reading comprehension is a poor as my dredge knowledge. But….. skyjack71 pondered after grousing: “Orange, your observations and deductions are pathetic! When Duane was alive I did ask him about his daughter. The ex-wife told me he tried to see his daughter or to communicate with her (she indicated Tx). All I have is the ex-wife's word on this and do not know how reliable that was. When Duane died - remember this - I did NOT own or know how to used a commuter. It is extremely rude of you to blame me for something I had no control over. I do not know her birthday or even the exact age she was born or in what state.” That’s telling her Sheriff. But I think the ‘Amazing Farflungini’ can solve one mystery from this thread without the aid of bovine guano.

Here’s a ‘case’ study from ‘Komatsu’ on dredging near ‘Caterpillar’ Island with equipment from ‘international’ factories which keep navigable waterways open while protecting wildlife we hold ‘dear’. There, I think that just about includes every heavy equipment maker except for New Holland in one sentence. Anyway….. this vessel named the Megan Renee was operated from River Mile 1 to 103 thus making excavating dredges candidates for use along the entire waterway. Don’t let this slow or dampen the parsing, no this should fuel it even more. I’ve got enough info and it’s not what I was looking for at all. It’s a story…. about a lovely lady…. who was dredging rivers that were full of stone. Megan Renee had…. a single shovel…. and she was unbeknown. Now you can read this and…. decide for yourself…. just how far that Megan had to go. She went from the mighty city…. that’s named Portland…. and past the Fazio’s. The DZ Bunch, The DZ Bunch, that’s the name of great info…. DZ Bunch. http://www.komatsuamerica.com/060310-J-E-McAmis Was it everything I hoped it would be (I still think drifting and natural transport are options)? Nope, I’ve learned a great deal about dredge operations and thread operations. I can safely say that during this brief journey I was stunned at how little I know about both and I’ll NEVER assume anything again. Which is funny because I don’t assume when it comes to aircraft and guns; in that Orville Wright can tell me a plane is ready to go and Samuel Colt can say it’s unloaded, yet I’ll check both for myself. Oh, and I don’t think Orville or Samuel were inveterate BS-ers. If only people were just a cautious about firing off some ‘known facts’ which have been talked about for years and by very astute people who are smarter than everyone else and just add an image or URL or link to where they got their information. Unless they are actually trying to become part of the story then this is a mouse fart in the wind. Hmmmmm, I wonder what the ‘truth’ is. OK, that was a lie; I know what the truth is I was just being a cheeky monkey.

Here is some more dredging further up-river from Longview at a charming hamlet called St Helens, OR. http://www.vustv.com/5PScQI2AwhyzA The raw violence with which that material was handled gave me the vapors (whatever those are) and reach for an O2 mask so I could breath the air of the pure and righteous if only for a single moment. Boy I sure can see why skyjack71 said that all those listed dredges were too violent and how that education of staring at things on the riverbank is paying royalties now. I’m from the ‘University of Poke It With A Stick’ which explains a great deal of my Luddite behaviors. I hate myself for even asking the question in the first place. I’ll keep researching this subject as an abject lesson to myself for shooting from the hip or using data without attribution as a deterrent to future behaviors.

Here is another article about Columbia dredging: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/10/oregon_washington_officials_pr.html I know this is like plunging rusty nails, soaked in lemon juice and rolled in sand into your eyes, so you can simply pass over the comment and discount anything that could be heresy. I’m always amazed at how little I know about so many things. This dredging operation kept 700,000 trucks off the highway and this project took 20 years to complete. Wow that’s a massive undertaking. The photo shows a ‘clamshell’ dredge in operation near Longview, WA (RM 64-70) which makes the Fazio river mile markers of 94 to 101.5 to be among the few immune to clamshell dredge equipment. Hmmmmmm.

1. Read back in the thread. This is a perennial favorite among those who take the time to contradict something yet manage to neglect the copy and paste function when looking at the source information. 2. It’s somewhere around here, I can’t find it now. This is code for ‘I didn’t expect anyone to actually call me on this, please go away.’ 3. This has already been talked about. Yep, after 26,000 comments there are individuals who still find this to be a stunningly profound statement. 4. Trust me. I can’t believe there are adults who even use this phrase and children are too intelligent to try. 5. What are your qualifications? Among the most disingenuous queries as there is not interest in the qualifications or if you are qualified. This is a call to publish a resume which will ALWAYS exceed your previously stated experience. This is a Tar-baby which will devolve beyond name dropping and braggadocio to quantifications of discussions and meetings which produced nothing. This should be avoided at all costs but the desire to talk about one's penis is simply too great thus insuring continued practice. 6. I’ve been doing this for (??) number of years, that’s how I know. Apparently they have not met their new masters in the form of the Google board of directors where several members actually entered their 30’s (age) this year. Longevity at failure is not a virtue. 7. They should know because they are local. I don’t know where this beauty originated where a person living somewhere inherently knows more about technical or historical information on that city. I asked a guy from Detroit for a part number on a 1972 Caprice and all he did was stare just like that guy from Washington DC who didn’t know the ramifications of the Smoot-Hawley Act. Clearly both of them must have been imposters as all residents of those cities would have known those answers. 8. I’ll have to check with (person who is an utter unknown). Another form of poorly played deflection where the information is held by one person who rarely is located to reinforce some statement that is in contradiction to traditional science or data. 9. I had it (the source) but agents from the government sabotaged my hard drive. Yep, this one is still popular among the ‘I have AOL’ crowd that believes computers are magic. A dying breed that share a common DNA strand where any semi technical question is answered with ‘I have AOL’. 10. I don’t have time right now, do your own work. They never do. Yet they ALWAYS have time to make a baseless response.

I think I found something new while playing the money game. One of the published experts in the PDF file clearly states that one of the bills only has a partial portrait of Hamilton. I know my blood ran cold when I realized the explosive ramifications of that statement which can only (only that is) be one of the following: 1. Coopers ransom contained bills other than twenties which adds to the conspiracy argument. 2. This is a rare Federal Reserve misprint worth more than the Cooper association. 3. The hijacker’s name is Aaron Burr or that he intended to jump into the cold air brrrrrrr. 4. This proves that Duane Weber, threw a sack of money into the Columbia and walked to the Fazio sand bar and buried it after parking at the side of the road or lost the money in a milk can or bucket or pail or cylindrical metal container or paint can or cheesecake tin or some sort of buckety thing filled with Columbia River water. There is no other plausible answer and I base this on absolutely nothing more than reading past comments and using common sense. The same type that imbues one who grows up on a farm and seeing things on a riverbank with encyclopedic knowledge of dredging operations which impresses many who read such well founded claims. Yet these same people own and operate cars and can’t change the brakes. Weird. I guess their brains are too full from all the common sense stuff. Source: I don’t have time to give a source, I’ve already given too much away and this is too much to ask. My time is valuable and I don’t have time for this sort of malarkey and have already said this many times before for years and years so it should be obvious by now that I don’t have time to site a source because my time is worth something and I deserve respect for that time from people who are very astute and smart who tell me the same things in private and not in public for others to hear which was not intended for them to know while they are listening to what these local young people have to say to me which was observed by Steve, Connie, Scott, Trinny, Bob and Doug and many more that I don’t care to name.

It started with a list of dredges that the ‘Army Corps of Engineers’ supplied as equipment to be used on the Columbia River. Then it was stated that ALL those dredges were too violent for the money. A clamshell dredge was suggested as not being too violent. Then it was offered that only ‘cutter and suction’ type dredges were used. A report from the Port of Portland clearly states that clamshell dredging is common place along the Columbia. Now (what a difference a day makes) the dredge deposits were placed too far from the edge of the river and the money was below the high water line so the dredge does not matter as this was analyzed by crack experts again. OK, OK so the clamshell was not too violent just that type of dredge was never used even though the Army Corps of Engineers listed it on an EPA permit. Oh, no that’s not the problem it is that the spoils were too far away from the shore now. From the image of the Fazio operation in 1974 (ref: Photo Interpretation 1974), a pair of river accretion formations or alluvial fans are clearly extending into the river. So there were some dredge operations that were not depositing material above the waterline since it is obvious to the most casual of observer that dredge deposits are the crescent shaped extensions into the river. These deposits were marshaled to the storage area by some means and likely some large capacity front loaders. I’m fully expecting and braced for a further parse of the data without benefit of source, process or technique; garnished with an inexplicable leap of logic.

Pek771 laments: “So, when you get to the party late (as I did), you find out lots of stuff you didn't previously know. Fazio Brothers, for instance. Tough being a casual observer for 40 years and then getting involved...thanks, Marla!” I’m sure you’ll discover there are many, many more to thank besides Marla as your journey continues through…. the Cooper-Zone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b5aW08ivHU Here’s a little history about the Fazio site for those who walked into this Fellini flick somewhere in the middle. The first stunningly done graphic (Fazio Sand) lends a sense of perspective about this aggregate operation. The red hatched area is a rough outline of the inventory of tens of thousands of square yards of material. All of which came from beneath the surface of the Columbia River and deposited on the beach where waiting implements hungrily moved that material to the storage area. Even the government does not want to pay twice to remove this stuff. Another glimpse is given from the Google street view where one feels like they are trapped in the drifting dunes of Arabia with nothing but a scarab to notice your passing. The only relief arriving in the fantasy that ‘Mr Tiddles’ could not possibly fill that litter box in less than a week. All this featured in juxtaposition to the gentle curves and perfectly sculpted shape of the clamshell dredge. Next the dogleg serves as a yellow, reference to the historical images of the Fazio Dunes on the following attachment (Three Phazes of Fazio). From 1970 to 1979 the operation can be viewed with a ‘dynamic’ shoreline and the magenta circle where the FBI marked as the discovery site for the Cooper dough. Armed with these tools you can decide if the dredging operations are a long shot consideration or another assumption or group of assumptions is more reasonable or plausible. On extremely rare occasions individuals have crafted whoppers on the thread that would make Burger King envious. Of the many sources of information is one that may be useful in regard to operations along the Columbia River which is called the Port of Portland. These people claim to know something about dredging by outlining the various types used which include bucket and clamshell among several others. Why can’t they just pick one? No different than how a carpenter just uses a saw to do his job because hammers are too loud and heavy. Those clamshell rigs were used for some sort of ‘superfund’ clean up because they didn’t want the PCBs and carcinogens to flow downstream and spread the pollution. Oh boy, don’t they know how violent dredging is? I hope you have enjoyed the historical tour of Fazio Sand, Tena Bar and clamshell dredges and use this to further your own research and investigation no matter where it takes you.

After a few bottles of instant IQ, I checked the system schematic and highlighted the wrong switch for the warning light previously (spaz). This appears to be a momentary switch (toggle?) to energize the system ‘B’ hydraulics which raises the stairs. There is a second switch near the ‘Latching Mechanism’ which also leads to the FE’s (Third Crewman’s Panel) and is presumably the other AFT AIRSTAIRS light. Now another question is why the hydraulic system had such a limited dampening effect that the stairs retracted above the slipstream, past the latching mechanism cams, hit the micro-switch then fell back into the neutral position. I’m still missing something here. I know someone will be inherently skilled at this because there were AFT AIRSTAIRS on the farm, only they were made out of stone.

Really nice to see a manual on this mysterious AFT AIRSTAIR system. A thousand thanks 377, always the scholar and gent. It illustrates how simple and straight forward they are to operate with the cryptic controls which say ‘DOWN’. As usual these pages raise some questions about what the crew observed. Since this morning had me dithering with the Flight Engineer’s Annunciator panel, I wanted to know what energized that display. According to the manual once the handle is moved to the ‘DOWN’ position that illuminates the ‘AFT AIRSTAIRS’ light on the Flight Engineer’s panel. A ‘STRUT NOT DOWN-LOCKED’ light will illuminate near the control box and the stairs will gravity fall with the descent controlled by a valve in the ‘UP’ hydraulics. Simple enough for the operator. Now for the electronics. For the indicator light on the panel to extinguish a series of conditions all must be met: 1. The Aft Stairs must be up (retracted). 2. They must be locked. 3. The control handle must be placed in the ‘UP’ detent. Unless Cooper moved the handle to ‘UP’ before he jumped I’m not sure how this indicator would have gone out for a few seconds. Of course there is the possibility that the amber AFT AIRSTAIRS light is controlled by the stairs reaching a micro-switch. I simply don’t know. But with the available data it appears that the AFT AIRSTAIRS light would not have gone off without the handle in the UP position and this should have locked the stairs in place via the up-lock cams. Perhaps someone else can offer a better answer with source attribution. That’s all I got.

Good catch Robert99, I wanted to exaggerate the point of boundless switches, lights and knobs all flashing and blinking so I added the FE’s panel from the Concorde. My perfidy was short lived thus proving there is a big old world out there and some of it is pretty smart. Quick proof of how little gets by some people on this thread even if they don’t say a single word. Would be a good example for those who talk out of their ‘face’ and shoot from the hip then assume they are being believed. Here is a better image of a 727 FE panel without any manipulation, steering or instinctual knowledge of what a dredge is capable of doing.

Well I’m doing my best to find some better data about the Flight Engineer’s panel on a 727. There must be hundreds and thousands of blinking and flashing lights on those panels. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmSSIBjgjqE&feature=related I’m alright, I’m alright…. Just need to see an illuminated panel.

OK, so I did some sciencey things that only I understand in order to bring out what the Flight Engineer’s Annunciator panel lenses contain on a 727. Next I’m going to cast this thing into the Columbia and see how long it takes until a Hot Nun finds it. I saw a slightly ‘modified’ version of this thing in an Airstream trailer from Arizona. I think I’m getting a clue. http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155280/raging-clues

I actually managed to find a picture of a Flight Engineers Door Annunciator from a 727. Problem is the display is hard to interpret without the lights on. But I think I see (first row, fourth down) ‘AFT AIRSTAIR’ on the lens or some sort of Elvis-y thing. Perhaps someone could play with the image and see if there is a warning for the aft bulkhead/entry door as well.

Pek771, I can’t imagine that the FBI and thousands haven’t thought of this already. I just added this as a sort of starting point for every other theory that rolls along. By using the simplest profile (my assumption) and adding steps, inferences, processes and cycle times in order to get the desired or expected result. If a ‘suspect’ survived the jump, then there simply is no amount of data that will convince people with that ‘faith system’ that there is even a remote chance he died (reference previous page of comments). They will typically make their tale more complex, harder to complete and as a byproduct lower the probability that it even happened. Paradoxically these people think they are making a stronger case, like Marla Cooper insisting she saw the Dan Cooper comic in her uncle’s room. Without the consideration of the pressure bump and with the knowledge that the crew thought Cooper could have been back there while landing in Reno (although some say 99% sure he was gone); the easiest solution (nowhere have I said correct) is a splash in the Columbia with a clamshell dredge dropping some artifacts on a riverbank. That is all. I believe that a person armed with the same data should decide for themselves. Others think you should simply take their ‘good word’ for things or that every farm person was born with a certain inalienable knowledge about dredging and aggregate operations. I assume some canvas bag of money would have taken on the same color as the rest of the river bottom debris. Additionally the tractor and front loaders on the beach may not have noticed that either and the sheer wheel weight could have pressed some clump of garbage into the sand where it remained for years. Again I don’t know, but others claim they do. I think those who are being honest in the research would scribe the assumptions and tasks required to make something without other evidence more probable or at least plausible. Cooper defies all criminal history by using cash buried on gated private property, with an enormous amount of industrial activity to decoy the police. Does this even look good on paper? Eye of the beholder stuff I guess. The Fazio’s operation was going long before the money was discovered. How a bag of money behaves or degrades in a cold, anaerobic environment is a complete unknown to me. Most experiments begin with a certain bias like flinging a single pack of bills into a river at the end of a fishing pole where the assumption is the bills separated from the bag and body and floated. Or how rubber bands only last for a certain amount of time in the open air or buried in a backyard while ignoring sitting at the bottom of a dark, cold river. I don’t know what the answer would be or if it would even be different but I would like an honest, un-emotive answer. I won’t hold my breath on this thread.

Farflung quotes massively overly optimistic forecast from self: “I see there is a new discovery called source attribution that makes some people happy. Although this technique is taught in every community college in the US, it is good to see it used. I harbor no fantasy that this will last longer than one thread page or until a theory is bruised.” I would like to amend this to: It will suffer a crib death within half a dozen comments…… twice. That’s all I got.

I see there is a new discovery called source attribution that makes some people happy. Although this technique is taught in every community college in the US, it is good to see it used. I harbor no fantasy that this will last longer than one thread page or until a theory is bruised. The Fazio Bros have a sand company that gains their product via dredging operations along the Columbia River from mile marker 94 to marker 101.5, according to the Shoreline Management Master Program. Not all but a good amount of material is deposited on this site as part of keeping the Columbia navigable. Because I dig paperwork and enjoy pain, I read the Army Corps of Engineers permit request for operations on the Columbia River. The types of dredging equipment that will be used are: hopper, pipeline, clamshell and excavator dredges and a drill barge (for drilling and blasting). Manly man equipment to be sure. Now the mix has a dredging deposit site where Cooper’s money was found, a defined hydrological area where the dredging has occurred and V-23 airway crossing the Columbia River which supplies an Occam delighting minimal number of steps to deliver the money. OK, that’s all I got.