The Bay has been a dumping ground on purpose and not for a few hundred years.
When I was going through Naval Aviation Safety school one of the exercises we did was to examine a mishap involving a T-2 Buckeye out of NAS Pax River and they had the wreckage over at the airport in Monterey to look at. As we looked through the wreckage they had drug up from the bay some things started to look odd. Most of us had flown the T-2 in flight school and yet some of the parts were clearly from an A-4 including the AN/AJB-3 Attitude Indicator.
Turns out the T-2 had gone down in the bay on top of a previous A-4 crash.
