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| Thursday Morning Indian River Lagoon. |
The 2022 Mel Fisher Days celebration begins tonight at 7 PM.
From the Mel Fisher organization - Commemoration of the 400-year anniversary of the sinking of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha, along with several other 1622 Fleet ships, is to be the centerpiece of this year’s Mel Fisher Days celebrations, recognized from September 2 to September 6 with a series of fun, fascinating, and educational events held at multiple island locations. Anyone enthralled with sunken shipwrecks, lost treasures, finding lost treasures, marine archaeology, recovered artifacts, and the unique camaraderie forged in the 16-year quest led by famed treasure hunter Mel Fisher will find events and activities to immerse in.
Here is the link for details.
Mel Fisher Days - Annual Charity Event
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Yesterday I talked about banknotes, and it just so happens that yesterday I received an interesting bill with the serial number 44443162. Below is what I got when I found when I checked that number with one of the online checkers
So it got a very cool rating, but the serial number was not rare or cool enough to sell for good money.
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KIBBUTZ REVADIM, Israel (AP) — Israeli archaeologists recently unearthed the titanic tusk of a prehistoric elephant near a kibbutz in southern Israel, a remnant of a behemoth once hunted by early people around half a million years ago...
Israel Antiquities Authority prehistorian Avi Levy, who headed the dig, said it was “the largest complete fossil tusk ever found at a prehistoric site in Israel or the Near East...
Omry Barzilai, an IAA archaeologist, said the find was “very puzzling, very enigmatic” because it was not clear whether ancient people hunted the behemoth on the spot or whether they brought the felled animal’s tusk to this spot..”
As you probably know, tusk sections have been found on the Treasure Coast too.
Here is the link to the article.
Israeli archaeologists dig up large tusk of ancient elephant | AP News
When you find an item like that it can be difficult to determine how it got there.
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I did almost no hunting this summer for a variety of reasons, the most recent being a foot injury, but I did a little hunt yesterday to test out my foot and it seems I'm about ready to go again. We should be getting some better beach hunting conditions before long, but there are a lot of other sites I want to hunt.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |
The system nearest us will probably stay east of the Bahamas. It might linger out there a little while and send us some slightly bigger surf.
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| Source; MagicSeaWeed.com. |
I'll be looking at some treasures listed in the Frank Hudson book on Florida West Coast treasures in the near future. It is another one of those hard to find books.