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You might remember the above photo from earlier in the year. It recently surfaced again along with new revelations. An article in TampaBay.com begins as follows.
In October 2018, Tampa-based treasure-hunting company Seafarer Exploration announced it had hired “Dr. Michael Torres," a brilliant “wounded war veteran receiving a Purple Heart with Oak Cluster” to do just that – help them find treasure with tech.
In January 2019, Torres made the front page of Florida Today and appeared on FOX35 Orlando wearing an Indiana Jones-esque hat and announcing he’d discovered an ancient Peruvian burial mask washed up on Melbourne Beach.
It was all fake, Kyle Kennedy, CEO of Seafarer Exploration told the Tampa Bay Times. “This guy can spout this stuff off like no tomorrow," he said. “Absolutely none of it was true, but unless you’re an engineer, you’d never know that." ...
Here is the link for the rest of that article.
Maybe you remember when I posted about Torres' reported find back in January. I first posted the story on January 12 as it appeared in the media. In my post, I mentioned that it didn't seem to me to "stick together." I had my doubts. Then I found an article in Ancient Origins, which I referred to in my 1/27 post. That article pointed out some of the contradictions in Torres' claims. And in my 12/5/19 post, I published a first-hand report from one of this blog's readers, Jason J., who was a diver for Seafarer Corp.
As previously published in this blog, Jason gave the following account.
Hi,I am a diver for Seafarer Exploration Corp and have been working with them for almost a decade.I lent Torres one of my grandfather's uncleaned cobs for research on a project he is working on for seafarer.I am also the person responsible for x Ray testing of the funerary head piece he “found”near our site.I also said at the time I tested the head piece, and it shouldn’t be made public until further proof was made of its real origin!Again I was suspect that it too wasn’t a beach find!The picture I sent you is my cob that was “found”on Melbourne Beach near where the head piece was found.Torres had another one of our divers out metal detecting with him and the poor guy was the one who “found” the coin!!Im almost certain Torres instructed him where to hunt and voila the coin was found.Those uncleaned cobs I have came from the Cabin Wreck and as we all know and can see from the pic I sent the cob that was just found isn’t a beach find!..I do not know torres’ motive other than 15 minutes of fame and possibly driving up our stock long enough to make a move on it.I definitely want to make it known Seafarer had nothing to do with Torres and his finds.
Sincerely,
Jason J.
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Walton Rocks Thursday Near Low Tide.
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There were a lot of people getting some healthy Florida sun yesterday. It looked more like a weekend afternoon.
There was some surfing too. Some nicely formed slow waves were hitting the beach. The water had been up fairly high at high tide. There were some shells along the shoreline.
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Surfers Thursday.
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John Brooks Beach Thursday Near Low Tide.
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I saw no erosion on these beaches. Not much wind yesterday either.
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One thing I often talk about is pattern recognition. It is an important skill that applies to almost any field of endeavor. Whether you are talking about coin distribution patterns or virus infections, pattern recognition is a important skill, and the process is very much the same no matter what subject you are talking about.
… Patterns are powerful. They set up expectations, make connections, and inspire burning questions. They can be events that regularly repeat themselves, trends in which events rise or fall over a prolonged period, relationships that create new connections, or they can emerge from seeing the larger picture. They can be outliers, events that fall outside the norm or newly defined patterns called fractals. Together, pattern recognition can lead to new discoveries, breakthrough ideas, and innovative concepts.
Pattern recognition was key to the survival of our Neanderthal ancestors, allowing them to identify poisonous plants, distinguish predator from prey, and interpret celestial events. Today, pattern recognition plays new, but just as important roles in diagnosing diseases, inspiring new ways to safeguard data, and discovering new planets...
Here is a a link for more about that.
People who make breakthroughs were not taught how to do it. They had a passion to do something, and a lot of natural talent. They didn't look at things like everybody else.
Thomas Edison didn't have a degree in making light bulbs or inventing. Nobody taught the Wright brothers how to build a plane. They had creative genius, and skills that couldn't be taught. They didn't have courses or degrees for the things they did.
There are skills that aren't taught in schools. People who are driven problem-solvers have a unique way of looking at things. Creative people do not tend to follow the prescribed path. Unschooled hackers, dropouts and gamers are just as likely to solve our country's most important problems, but our country, and perhaps most countries, fail to recognize and foster much of their intellectual capital. Our country, and perhaps most countries, fails to identify and make good use of that human resource. It is a huge waste. People who follow the rules work their way up the latter, but aren't always the most likely to come up with the most creative solutions.
In a recent update, Foldit added a new puzzle for players to solve: coronavirus, and researchers want players to design an antiviral protein to block the coronavirus spike protein from interacting with human cells. "Coronaviruses display a 'spike' protein on their surface, which binds tightly to a receptor protein found on the surface of human cells," explains the puzzle brief. "Once the coronavirus spike binds to the human receptor, the virus can infect the human cell and replicate. In recent weeks, researchers have determined the structure of the 2019 coronavirus spike protein and how it binds to human receptors. If we can design a protein that binds to this coronavirus spike protein, it could be used to block the interaction with human cells and halt infection!"
Here is that link.
In my opinion, that is one of the smartest things that could be done. If you put the data out there where the public can get to it, there is a good chance that some hacker or gamer will come up with the best solution. Every field and profession has its gatekeepers, so I don't know who came up with this idea. Professionals don't normally acknowledge those without credentials or positions. Amateur archaeologists don't encourage publics participation. What incentive is there? But amateurs make many contributions - recognized or not.
A lot of the genius of this country remains unrecognized and unused. The cloud makes it possible for people to participate in solving big problems. If we did a better job of identifying and encouraging creative skills and talent, we'd be a much richer country.
Major creative breakthroughs are often made by people who follow their own path rather than going through all of the prescribed steps to gain entry.
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The Treasure Coast surf will be four to six feet. The high tides are running very high, but it looks like the swells will be hitting the beaches mostly straight on.
Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net