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| Source: underwatercouncil.com. See full link below. |
There was a lot in the recently concluded Sedwick Coins auction that was from the Feversham wreck. I hadn't heard of that one, so looked it up. In the process I found an interesting article. Here is an excerpt.
The popularity of recreational scuba diving has resulted in many shipwrecks being discovered along Nova Scotia, Canada’s coastline over the past forty years. Some divers have had the opportunity to discover and salvage long lost treasures from shipwrecks such as the HMS Feversham (lost in 1711), La Chameau (lost in 1725), HMS Tilbury (lost in 1757), and Auguste (lost in 1761). All of these have proven to hold valuable cargos of silver and gold. These recovery efforts in Nova Scotia stand in sharp contrast to many areas in the world where it has become increasingly difficult from a legal standpoint for recreational and professional salvage and commercial divers to recover artifacts and treasures they may find while exploring underwater. (See Sidebar, “Arguments Against Amateurs.”...
And here is the link for more.
http://www.underwatercouncil.com/Newsletters/UNESCO/Immersed%20Article.pdf
As it turns out the Feversham was lost only four years before the 1715 Fleet. Note the gold/emerald ring in the photo that looks very much like one discovered on the Treasure Coast.
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| "Sustainable" Homes Sinking. |
These sustainable homes were built on Marco Island in 1980, but erosion has left them stranded.
The structures were part of a six-building complex with solar power and a water-collecting system.
They were beachfront property when built in the 1980s.
Erosion, hastened by hurricanes and storms, has destroyed the domes.
Here is the link for more about that.
https://weather.com/news/news/2019-11-06-dome-homes-florida-disappearing-beach-erosion-future
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When your eyesight grows dim from time you can see what others can't. Where others see a modern steel building and an empty grassy spot beside, you see a spreading oak tree and an old black barn with weathered cracking boards where children waited for the bus every morning. Where others see old houses, you see brand new homes surrounded by green yards carved out of farm fields and the children who first laughed and played there. Where others see a spreading school house with twelve rooms, a cafeteria, gym and a parking lot where the ballfield used to be, you see a four room schoolhouse with worn wooden floors and wooden desks liberally carved with initials and other art work carved over the years by the more raucous children going back to your parent's generation, not to mention the scary boiler down stairs that was kept going by the janitor that lived across the road.
There are many things that only you know. Only you know where the fuzzy little duck you won at the county fair ate the mushroom beside the pussy willow tree and died. You know how cried you about that. You know how your grandpa entered the church every week, turned right inside the door and placed his hat with hats with a long line hats worn by the other men on the shelf above the coat rack before exchanging pleasantries with the other men before making their way upstairs to the sanctuary. You know where the spring house used to be and where the mint grew in the valley by the creek.
There are sacred places. They are frozen in time. They are the places where your parents and grandparents are still young even though you are old. They are the places where the past lives on as strongly as the present.
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November is often a good month for detecting. Everyone knows about the legendary Thanksgiving storm that uncovered treasures along much of the Treasure Coast. It is the month when cold fronts start coming through.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
One will be coming through soon. The wind will be turning tomorrow and we're supposed to get some higher surf Saturday. Also it looks like another bump in the surf is predicted for Wednesday.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net