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An eight-year-old wielding a metal detector has discovered a nearly two-century-old shipwreck in Ontario Canada.
During a family trip to the Point Farms Provincial Park near Goderich in 2023, Lucas Atchison, now 10, found a small steel spike with his metal detector, a birthday gift, and decided to dig further.
The spike was found attached to a piece of wood, which in turn had several more spikes on it.
Further inspection revealed that the spikes and the wood were part of an entire wrecked ship.
The boy and his family reported the discovery to park staff and the volunteer group called Ontario Marine Heritage Committee, CBC News reported.
Archaeologists found the ship was likely an old schooner, a type of two-masted, wooden sailing vessel. It had double frames, hinting it was a stronger-built ship to transport goods...
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Child with metal detector finds nearly 200-year-old shipwreck | The Independent
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A mysterious treasure chest that was buried in San Francisco by an anonymous group, containing gold and artifacts, has reportedly been found.
On Tuesday, the group posted on the San Francisco subreddit that they buried the chest somewhere in the city.
"You're looking for a 22 pound chest worth over $10,000. It's brimming with gleaming ingots, currency, and San Francisco artifacts. About half the value is in gold," the organizers said.
The post, which quickly became viral, linked to their website featuring a poem containing several clues:
On Wednesday NPR's All Things Considered reported that three friends, identified as Austin Theriault, TJ Lee and Erik Bahri, found the treasure Tuesday evening.
The group told the public radio program that the prize was buried just off a trail in the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve. They also revealed the contents inside the chest, which included a gold nugget, silver and copper coins, baseball cards featuring Giants slugger Barry Bonds, and a ticket to the Golden Gate International Exposition that took place in 1939.
In a follow up reddit post, the group that buried the treasure expressed surprise at how fast the items were found. "Well, that went A LOT aster than anyone anticipated. Months were hoped, days felt possible, but 11 hours... wow," they said.
The group said it was open to doing another treasure hunt.
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31 million tons of supercharged seaweed is creeping toward beaches in Florida and around the CaribbeanThe Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem.
Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum bloom has already broken its own size record by millions of tons — and the growing season isn’t done yet.
Now stretching across some 5,500 miles of ocean, the annual bloom is more than just an eyesore: Sargassum hurts ecosystems and economies wherever its overgrown arms reach. And they are spreading into Florida’s waterways, coating marinas and beaches in the Miami area.
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