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| Thursday's Treasure Coast Sunrise. |
I went out to take a look at the beaches this morning. Of course, as you'd expect if you've been following the weather, there wasn't much new.
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| John Brooks Thursday Morning Near Low Tide. |
I did a little metal detecting and picked up several discolored modern coins that were in a very narrow coin line running parallel to the beach. Mostly dimes.
I find hunting lines like that interesting simply because it illustrates how objects are distributed on a beach.
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| John Brooks Beach Thursday Morning. |
I was able to find a relatively small area below an old cut where an older brown layer of coarse sand was showing. The cut was old, so I was surprised that there were still some old targets that sounded pretty good even though most were not coins. There were some old sinkers and other odd items. Nothing real good though.
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| John Brooks Beach Thursday Morning. |
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Ocean scientists have located the wreck of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear — a ship that served at sea for at least 88 years and played a part in the famous capture of a Nazi spy ship.
The Bear has a storied history: It started working as a commercial sealer in 1874. Then, because the ship could travel through ice-filled waters, the government purchased it in the 1880s to use for rescue work in the Arctic. It also served as a relief ship during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919, a floating museum, a film set for a Hollywood movie and an expedition ship on Adm. Richard Byrd's Antartic explorations...
A secret Navy submersible — the nuclear-powered NR-1 —— carried out a second search in 2007, but it too was unsuccessful. Finally, the U.S. Coast Guard and NOAA joined forces with other partners and began another search in 2019.
After mapping 62 square miles (160 square kilometers) of seafloor with sonar, they identified two submerged objects in the search area.
In September, they returned on a Coast Guard ship equipped with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to take underwater video and confirm that the largest object is the wreck of Bear, Barr said...
Here is the link for more about that.
Wreck of US ship that hunted Nazi spies in the Arctic finally discovered | Live Science
That is a great reminder of the varied history and many repairs and refittings a vessel can go through.
Parts of the ship can be from many different time periods. You might remember reading in a recent post how wooden parts were replaced by iron parts on some ships.
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Archaeologists created 3D maps of more than 30,000 square miles of precolonial settlements in what is today Mexico, revealing never-before-seen details of how sites were designed and their apparent connections to the ancient Mesoamerican calendar.
The 478 sites included in the new research were inhabited from around 1400 BCE to 1000 CE, and the way they were constructed appears to be linked to cosmologies important to the communities that lived there. Settlements that align with nearby mountain peaks or the Sun’s arc across the sky suggest there may have been symbolic importance to the orientation of the architecture.
The team categorized the sites into five distinct types of architectural arrangement, which they think might correspond to different time periods and indicate more egalitarian societies. All the sites had rectangular or square features, which the archaeologists say may have been inspired by the famous Olmec site of San Lorenzo, which had a central rectangular space that was likely used as a public plaza. The team’s survey and analysis were published today in Nature Human Behavior.
“The main point of this study is the discovery of nearly 500 standardized complexes across a broad area, many of them having rectangular shapes,” wrote lead author Takeshi Inomata, an archaeologist at the University of Arizona, in an email to Gizmodo. “Until three years ago, we had no idea about the presence of such complexes. They really force us to rethink what was happening during this period.” ...
Here is that link.
Archaeologists Map Nearly 500 Mesoamerican Sites and See Distinct Design Patterns (gizmodo.com)
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
As you can see, the Treasure Coast will be seeing a small increase in surf.
Happy hunting,
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