I don't want to make a federal case out of this point, but if the fragment field started at the Ingram find and then spread out to the south (upstream) then that is very unusual.  It would require the current that spread out the fragments to be moving upstream against the river flow.

Does NMI or anyone with experience with sub-surface river currents know if there can be substantial currents below the surface that are opposite to the main river current?

I am aware that some relatively minor upstream currents can frequently be observed along the usual shoreline.  But to spread out the fragments would require something much stronger and below the surface.

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The pencil drawings were done by the FBI. Tom has the location marked in the same photo...

Fig. 3 1974 dredging image from FBI archive overlaid on Googe Earth. The penciled circle is the inacurate location of the money find from 1980. The pronounced hump in the beach is the result of the dredging pipe dumping sand on the beach. The red line represents the distance sand was moved north on the beach from the dredging pipe. The yellow pin marks the recoverd position of the money find

Nevertheless, the GPS coordinates Tom gives leads to the approximate center of the circles and the local fishermen gave ever indication of agreeing with those GPS coordinates.

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I don't want to make a federal case out of this point, but if the fragment field started at the Ingram find and then spread out to the south (upstream) then that is very unusual.  It would require the current that spread out the fragments to be moving upstream against the river flow.

Does NMI or anyone with experience with sub-surface river currents know if there can be substantial currents below the surface that are opposite to the main river current?

I am aware that some relatively minor upstream currents can frequently be observed along the usual shoreline.  But to spread out the fragments would require something much stronger and below the surface.

I just know the basics about rivers, currents, eddies, etc.  I don't have any experience with anything as large as the Columbia.  It's as much a moving lake, as it is a river.

Ice can do a number of unusual things.  It can drastically change the currents and move large (and small) objects around.  Does the Columbia every have large amounts of ice moving through her?

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First discrepancy noted* Shutter had previously posted the attached and places the money find at a different location than I have assigned it in my composite. Which is correct?

The approximate center of the circles drawn in pencil is the location where Tom Kaye's GPS coordinates puts the money find location.  Brian didn't remember the exact location when he was with Tom at Tina Bar.  So Tom used photographs taken of the FBI agents digging, and which show prominent features on the west side of the river, to determine the GPS coordinates he gives.

When Meyer Louie and I visited Tina Bar, we talked to people who had visited Tina Bar just about ever day for the last 50 years.  None of them gave any indication whatsoever that Tom's location was not correct.  It should be understood that, due to the severe shoreline erosion, the actual location is now several feet out in the river and also several feet above the typical water level.

Tom's location is the most accurate that is now available.  In any event, the money was found between the water and the containment pond.