Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treeasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |
As you can see, the remnants of Hanna is now in Mexico and Gonzalo is gone, but there is a new kid on the block. That one has an 80% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours.
I took a look to see what the models are predicting for that one. I thought it might follow in the tracks of Gonzalo, but it looks like it might take a more northerly track and go just east of the Bahamas.
It is still too far out there to know what it is going to do, but here is what the GFS model shows.
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| Center Down by Danto Domingo on July 31. (GFS Model) Source: Ventusky.com. |
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| Center East of the Bahamas on Aug. 2. (GFS Model) Source: Ventusky.com |
The winds are not strong by the time it gets up near the Bahamas and the model has it staying well east of us. Nonetheless, that is just a prediction, and could be way off.
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I wanted to finish the topic of the 300th anniversary find today by giving some context. 2015 was a good salvage season overall. There were a lot of other good finds that year, which got over-shadowed, or should I say out shined, by the 350 gold coins. There was a stream of finds reported that year leading up to the big find.
The 300th anniversary of the sinking of the 1715 Fleet was much anticipated. The Rainbow Chasers Tricentennial Yearbook by T. L. Armstrong and Tommy Gore was copyrighted in 2015, and the Limited Color edition came out in January of that year.
The Capitana was tweaked for working in close and the crew was tuned in. Reales and escudos were being found, along with some great artifacts.
One day diver Grant picked up 90 musket balls. Another day a huge hook.
I took those musket balls as a good sign. I've talked about that before. And I kept thinking they were getting close. It wasn't only the musket balls, but after the musket balls, I thought they were really getting close.
I know you can't tell when the next hole might be the big one, but people get feelings. Sometimes those feelings prove good and sometimes not. But I don't take the many musket balls and other finds before the big find as being purely coincidental.
Here are just a few more of the images leading up to the big find. These photos were submitted to the blog in 2015 by Captain Jonah.
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| Cannon Ball Found by Jonah and Capitana Crew Posted on 6/8/15 |
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| Escudo Found Along With Reales Posted 6/21/15 |
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| Capitana Working In Close With Detectorist in Background. Posted 6/29/15 |
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| Big Hook Found along With Cobs. Posted 7/8/15 |
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| Some of the 90 Musket Balls Posted 7/17/15 |
That was a great year, but I don't believe it will be the last. In fact, something big could happen again real soon.
Not everybody was following this blog five years ago, and I know of some who weren't even into metal detecting or treasure hunting back then, so this might be new news to them.
Somebody just asked me what the value of the 300th anniversary find would be. The most quoted estimate I saw was $4.5 million. Many of the coins were so rare that there would be no way to tell the value collectors might put on them. Only time and the auction block would tell.
The link to the video I posted yesterday was the link I originally posted back in 2015, and it no longer worked. I went back and substituted this link that does still work.
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The Treasure Coast surf will be only one or two feet for the next few days.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net