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Today, three researchers working for the Spanish culture ministry have finished the initial phase of a project to catalogue the wrecks of the ships that forged and maintained the empire.
Led by an archaeologist, Carlos León, the team has logged 681 shipwrecks off Cuba, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Bermuda, the Bahamas and the US Atlantic coast.
Its inventory runs from the sinking of the Santa María to July 1898, when the Spanish destroyer Plutón was hit by a US boat off Cuba, heralding the end of the Spanish American era and the twilight of Spain’s imperial age...
Here is the link for more about that.
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| Finds by Dan K. |
The above were found by Dan K. on Sunday. Below is his message.
Wanted to share some finds from this past Sunday after the recent storms blew through. I found a section of beach that had washed out all the way back to the dune and had left a very steep slope, with no real cut however. There were lots of targets scattered up and down the whole slope. Some very deep and some shallow. I managed to dig 3 foreign coins including a 1940s coin from the Netherlands, a Mexico 2 pesos, and a Canadian cent. I’ve never found such a variety of coins before. I can’t tell if the finds I was making were deposited by the surf or uncovered by the erosion, or maybe a combination of both. I didn’t manage any gold, but did pull a silver ring, couple pendants, and a few knives. As quickly as the beach washed out, it began to fill back in quickly towards the end of my hunt as the tide pushed in, reminding me how brief the window of good conditions can be.
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| Surf Chart from SurfGuru.com. |
Wednesday saw some northeast winds but they'll become more easterly.
Over the past few days one fellow dug 16 gold rings.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net