10/7/20 Report - Great List of Shipwreck Information. More on Large Buried Objects. Problem Solving Skills.

 

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

On Wikipedia there is a very extensive list of shipwrecks with links for more information about each wreck.  It is a very useful resource.  

Here is the main link, which starts with shipwrecks before Anno Domini and goes right up to modern wrecks.  It is a actually a list of lists, that also includes a bunch of references that provides additional details on many of the wrecks.

Here is a good link to use as a starting place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_shipwrecks

From there you might select a smaller list, such as wrecks during the 17th century, which is a list that includes almost 200 shipwrecks.

Here is that link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_the_17th_century#1667

Once there, you might choose to look at the wrecks listed for 1622, which would give you the following.

1622[edit]

• 5 September
  • Buen Jesus y Nuestra Senora del Rosario ( Spain): The sailing ship, along with seven others, out of a fleet of twenty-eight, was lost during a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, between Florida and Cuba. The ships, left Havana on 4 September, with gold for the Spanish treasury.^[26][27]
  • Nuestra Senora de la Consolacion ( Spain): The galleon capsized during the same hurricane as, Buen Jesus y Nuestra Senora del Rosario.^[28]
  • Nuestra Senora de los Reyes ( Spain): The slave ship sank near East Key, part of the Florida Keys in the Gulf of Mexico.^[29]
• 6 September
• Nuestra Senora de Atocha ( Spain): Out of Havana and carrying a valuable cargo of silver, gold and tobacco for Spain, two hundred and sixty people died when Atocha sank in deep water in the Gulf of Mexico.^[27]
• Santa Margarita (1622) ( Spain): One of eight ships that sank between Havana and Florida with a cargo of gold and silver.^[30]

I selected that list as an example because it inlcudes some wrecks that most people have heard of such the Atocha and Santa Margarita.

There is a long list of references which will give you additional information on each wreck.  

I highly recommend using the first link above and browsing around a bit.  I'm sure  you'll find something of interest.

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There has been a lot of interesting discussion of some large buried objects lately, but both DJ and I forgot that back in May, Dj sent me photos and a description of his hunt at Turtle Trail where he found a large object (shown above).  Below is what he said about that.

North of Turtle trail, there is a large rectangular target that I thought was an engine block (still may be). It is confusing because it usually is deeper than dig level and in that the readings run from copper, aluminum to iron. But the general size and shape can be determined in pinpoint mode. Yesterday, part of it was slightly above the sand at low tide where some sand had been washed away. Hard to tell from the picture but it looked like two square compartments connected by a taller iron divider. Away from that divider were the multiple readings. I had never seen this before so some sand must have been moved. 

Thanks once again DJ.

Bill R. wrote again about his object that started this recent discussion.  Here is what he said.

Bill again,
I see that there was a few post on that area of interest at turtle Bay. Pictures may not truly tell the story. I believe that the possibilities mentioned above are pretty small in nature to the area the signal was detected. I would estimate closer to shore it was 2' wide that expanded to approximately 5'. Total length was over 12'. Who knows, if we get some good northern winds maybe we will get a better peak. Hope I just didn't leave behind a treausure of a life time. Lol. Happy Hunting!

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Yesterday I gave you a puzzle that required connecting three rows of three equally spaced dots with four connected straight lines.

Here is the solution.

Psychology is about more than figuring out personalities and who is crazy.  It also involves industrial psychology and the psychology of human performance, including among many other things, creative problem solving.  

The point of this puzzle is that we impose unnecessary assumptions, which can keep us from finding better solutions.

If you want to find better solutions, that often involves questioning things and looking at things differently.

This puzzle really shouldn't be all that difficult, but people often assume that they should start at a dot, especially a corner dot, rather than outside the box.  It isn't even necessary to see the nine dots as a box, but that is the way it is commonly percieved.  

It can be difficult to question some things, but what you believe or accept as true can hold you back from better solutions.

If you remember my discussion of the glass half empty or full, I took it to what could easily be considered absurd extremes, but the point was to deconstruct one view to see if there might be others.  Of course, not all alternatives are good.  Not all work.  After generating new ideas come the time for evaluating those ideas.  Both skills are important.

Moments of insight - those aha moments - are too rare, but for me they provide much of the fun of metal detecting and treaure hunting as well as life in general.  I find myself being more and more about the joy of the hunt and the learning process rather than what is found.

I'm pleased that the learning process continues at a rapid rate.

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Joe Wears His Covid Mask - Thank Goodness.
Photo by Joyce H.

Satire.

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Delta.
Source: nhc.noaa.gov

Looks like Delta will hit Louisiana as a major hurricane.  That's not good.

There is nothing out there now that will affect our beaches much.

Looks like the Treasure Coast will have a few more days of two to three foot surf.

Happy hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net