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On March 5, 2022, more than a hundred years after its ill-fated voyage, the Endurance was found 3,000 meters below the surface. The discovery, made possible by cutting-edge underwater technology, has revealed the ship in an astonishing state of preservation. The 44-meter-long wooden structure remains largely intact, a testament to the frigid Antarctic waters that have slowed its decay.
Dr. John Shears led a team of explorers and scientists who used specially equipped underwater robots to map the wreck in high resolution...
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, set out to achieve one of the greatest geographical challenges of its time : the first complete crossing of the Antarctic continent. The crew of 27 men departed from South Georgia Island aboard the Endurance, a ship specially designed to withstand extreme polar conditions.
However, their journey took a perilous turn when the ship became trapped in the Antarctic pack ice just weeks after departure...
Here is the link for more about that.
Sometimes you just get the feeling that something is there or that you should do something despite the lack of all evidence or reason. I've told a few stories about that in the past. Below is one such story that I told years ago.
One time I was at work and only had a about an hour before another appointment, butI kept feeling that I should go detecting at a particular location. But I didn't have hardly any time.
I finally decided I would run down to the beach. By the time I got to the beach and in the water, I had less than a half hour to hunt. Well, I went in and in just a few minutes had a diamond ring with over nine carats of diamonds - seven diamonds, each over one carat. I took my find and quickly left.
Normally I wouldn't have gone when I had so little time. If traffic had been bad, I would have had no time. But I felt like I should go. It kept nagging me, and it paid off with an unusually good quick find.
I don't know if it was just coincidence, intuition, or something else. I can't say with confidence that it was anything other than coincidence.
I do a lot of analysis. I try to figure things out and make good calculated decisions. You know that if you've been reading this blog very long. Nonetheless, I will follow my feelings at times regardless of anything else. It doesn't always pay off but there are those times when it seems like something else is operating.
Intuition could be nothing more than the assimilation of a lot of knowledge that isn't completely consciously clear at the time.
Anyhow, I find good analysis and calculated decisions much more consistently productive, but I'm not ready to deny or ignore all of the subtle notions and feelings that I get. As remarkable and stunning as intuitive successes might seem, they are much too rare.
I once did an informal poll to see how much detectorists use intuition versus observation and anaylsis.
As you can see from the bar chart below, the respondents generally go more by analysis and observation than intuition. That isn't surprising considering the amount of time I spend on analysis of beach conditions and other things. Only one of the 45 respondents said that they went almost exclusively by intuition and hunches.
On the other end of the spectrum, 4 respondents said they rely almost exclusively on analysis.
The vast majority of those that responded, appear to use some mixture of analysis and intuition. Overall, the results were definitely skewed in the direction of analysis and observation over intuition.
Here are the results expressed in a bar chart. I reordered the categories from how they were ordered when the poll was presented, and also shortened the category labels. The numbers in the chart are percentages.
100 Years Later: Shackleton’s Lost Ship Endurance Resurfaces with Never-Before-Seen 3D Images
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Different people search differently. That is no surprise. Some go out and wander around somewhat randomly and others adopt a planned search strategy. Some people are mor systematic than others and some rely on their senses while others rely more on feelings or intuition.Sometimes you just get the feeling that something is there or that you should do something despite the lack of all evidence or reason. I've told a few stories about that in the past. Below is one such story that I told years ago.
One time I was at work and only had a about an hour before another appointment, butI kept feeling that I should go detecting at a particular location. But I didn't have hardly any time.
I finally decided I would run down to the beach. By the time I got to the beach and in the water, I had less than a half hour to hunt. Well, I went in and in just a few minutes had a diamond ring with over nine carats of diamonds - seven diamonds, each over one carat. I took my find and quickly left.
Normally I wouldn't have gone when I had so little time. If traffic had been bad, I would have had no time. But I felt like I should go. It kept nagging me, and it paid off with an unusually good quick find.
I don't know if it was just coincidence, intuition, or something else. I can't say with confidence that it was anything other than coincidence.
I do a lot of analysis. I try to figure things out and make good calculated decisions. You know that if you've been reading this blog very long. Nonetheless, I will follow my feelings at times regardless of anything else. It doesn't always pay off but there are those times when it seems like something else is operating.
Intuition could be nothing more than the assimilation of a lot of knowledge that isn't completely consciously clear at the time.
Anyhow, I find good analysis and calculated decisions much more consistently productive, but I'm not ready to deny or ignore all of the subtle notions and feelings that I get. As remarkable and stunning as intuitive successes might seem, they are much too rare.
I once did an informal poll to see how much detectorists use intuition versus observation and anaylsis.
As you can see from the bar chart below, the respondents generally go more by analysis and observation than intuition. That isn't surprising considering the amount of time I spend on analysis of beach conditions and other things. Only one of the 45 respondents said that they went almost exclusively by intuition and hunches.
On the other end of the spectrum, 4 respondents said they rely almost exclusively on analysis.
The vast majority of those that responded, appear to use some mixture of analysis and intuition. Overall, the results were definitely skewed in the direction of analysis and observation over intuition.
Here are the results expressed in a bar chart. I reordered the categories from how they were ordered when the poll was presented, and also shortened the category labels. The numbers in the chart are percentages.
It seems that most people acknowledge intuition but depend mostly upon observation and analysis despite those times when it definitely feels like there is something else operating.
Some of the above was originally posted on 7/9/17 in treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.
See The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 7/9/17 Report - 2011 Law Concerning Ownership of Artifacts and Space Exploration Artifacts. Blog Poll Conclusions. .
Too bad blogger took away their poll utility. I haven't taken the time to learn to implement other apps that might work.
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Other than the gradually reducing high tides and the beautiful cool beach detecting weather, not much to note.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net