10/13/24 Report - Library Research Pays Off With Big Shipwreck Treasure. Cool Life Preserver. Gold Mine Rescue.

 

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

Source: nhc.noaa.gov.

The National Hurricane Center map looks pretty clean now.  Only one system shown, and certainly not much of a threat at this point.

We are still having those King tides though.  Sunday, both the morning and afternoon tides will be over three feet on the Treasure Coast.  The surf remains pretty rough, though the wind will be calm.

As I showed in recent posts, some of the Treasure Coast beaches had some erosion, while others showed little or even accumulated.  It is the type of situation when you will have to look around for those few better spots.

I was surprised that when I went metal detecting I didn't see one other detectorist.  

One person is offering a free used Minelab Excalibur that is no longer being used.  If you are interested, I'll send you an email contact.

Surf Chart from SurfGuru.com.

In recent years it seems people have not been reporting find quickly.  They've been waiting a while before sharing.

So Milton has come and gone, but for a lot of people there are lasting effects.  Lives were lost and others were drastically changed.

Some people haven't recovered from Helene yet.  It is still hard to believe the damage that Helene did in western North Carolina.  A lot of people till could use some help.  Samaritan's purse was flying in Chinook helicopters.  I think they are headquartered up there in the Asheville area.  One of those organizations known for what they give rather than what they get.  Samaritan’s Purse International Disaster Relief — International Relief (samaritanspurse.org)

Nice area for vacationing in normal times.  The Biltmore Mansion is a nice back-in-time kind of place to visit.  Like a lot of areas, their airport was small one-story structure like a strip small, but a lot of airports were like that a few decades ago.  They had rocking chairs, something like the Charlotte airport, but on a smaller more quant scale.  I remember seeing Joey Bishop in the Asheville airport once.  

The Florida West Coast, Big Bend and Panhandle have a lot to overcome before they are back to normal, if that ever happens.

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When Coast Guard pilot Lt. Ian Logan went out to search the waters off Longboat Key in the wake of Hurricane Milton roaring ashore on the western Florida coast, he didn't expect to find anyone who needed help.

To all of their surprise, he and his crew found a man clinging to a cooler 30 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico...

Here is the link.

Coast Guard pilot describes 'insane' rescue of man floating on cooler in Gulf after Hurricane Milton - ABC News

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Talking of rescues...

There were the tourists trapped in an underground gold ine in Colorado.  One person died. 

Here is that link.

Multiple people trapped underground in Colorado mine, officials say (msn.com)

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Storms come and go.  People come and go.  Everything comes and goes.  In the long view, everything seems brief, though in the short view it can seem long.

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Back a few weeks ago I received the following in an email from the Fisher organization recounting a bit of treasure history.

Mel met Eugene's wife, Dot, in a Ft. Pierce library while looking for shipwreck information. Mel & Eugene soon become friends while attending the same church in Vero Beach. Mel asked Eugene to keep an eye out for information on the Atocha during his trip to Seville, Spain to the Archives of the Indies.

Lyon found a small packet of information about the Santa Margarita shipwreck, and the documents mentioned its sister ship, the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, which sank near the Cayo de Marquesa Keys. These documents and the information included inside lead Mel & his family to Key West to search near the "Cayos del Marques", known today as the Marquesa Keys.

The documents also included the identification numbers on each bar of gold and silver bullion and each cannon the ship carried. Lyon eventually made a career out of shipwreck research, and he has a staggering collection of ships, logs, manifests, sinking details – and documentation of lost cargo.

Dr. Lyon resided in Vero Beach Florida with his beautiful wife, Dorothy and continued to research history until his passing on May 3rd, 2020.

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Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net