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| Fort Pierce South Jetty Beach Friday Evening. |
Friday we had some good wind and a higher surf. It did nothing good to the north end of South Hutchison Island.
Even up by the Fort Pierce inlet where it had been eroded, it had filled again. Like the other beaches I looked at, it was very mushy.
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| John Brooks Beach Friday Evening. |
Nothing but accumulating sand down around John Brooks.
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| John Brooks Beach Friday Evening. |
Shells were up near the high tide mark.
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| John Brooks Beach Friday Evening. |
From what I saw at the few locations I visited, it looks like nothing but accumulating sand. Things could be different elsewhere.
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| North of John Brooks Friday Evening. |
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A few days past the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Samar, researchers from Vulcan Inc.’s research vessel R/V Petrel believe they’ve found wreckage from the engagement’s famed Fletcher-class destroyer, USS Johnston (DD-557).
Images of twisted metal, a destroyed deck gun, a propeller shaft and other less recognizable debris were posted to Petrel’s Facebook page Wednesday, with a video narrated by Rob Kraft, Vulcan’s director of subsea operations, and Paul Mayer a submersible pilot with the team started by the late billionaire and philanthropist Paul Allen...
See more at...https://news.usni.org/2019/10/30/wreck-of-famed-wwii-destroyer-uss-johnston-may-have-been-found
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Ever since the Confederate submarine Hunley was discovered off the South Carolina coast, theorists have wondered what caused it to sink in 1864.
Now Clemson University researchers might have found an explanation to what caused the world’s first successful combat submarine to vanish.
Researchers discovered the Hunley’s air circulation system was not in use when the sub and her eight-man crew disappeared in 1864, the Friends of the Hunley said Wednesday in a news release.
The Hunley held enough oxygen for the crew to survive for roughly two hours, and there were only two ways to replenish the air supply, according to the release...
See https://www.thestate.com/news/local/military/article236813773 for more about that.
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