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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1586600, member: 112"]Took me a minute to figure out what prompted that question. Then I realized you must be asking about my hand. No, it wasn't the anchor itself, if it had been the anchor I probably would have lost my hand as the anchor was 14 ft. long, 12 ft. wide at the flukes, and had a 14 in. square shaft. But yes it was natural causes. Ya see, given the size of the thing there was of course no way that we could ever get it out of the water - we were on a 41 ft. boat. So the only way we could move it was to float it. It took eleven 55 gallon barrels, chained to the anchor and then filled with air to float the thing. Then we could tow it to shore. While I was chaining up the barrels a rip current came through. One of the barrels (as of yet unattached) rolled down on me (I was in the hole) and crashed into the barrel I was working with at the time - with my hand in between the two.[/QUOTE]