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Earlier this week, architect Gerry Curts was on site showing pictures and offering descriptions of one of the tunnels, Fox 13 reported. He said that a new opening to the tunnels was revealed during demolition work by developers planning an office building./..
Mormino speculated that the tunnels may have been part of a network that transported Chinese prostitutes from Cuba to the Port of Tampa to Ybor City in the early 1900s, but added that we may never discover their real use. "The tunnels of Ybor City represent one of the great riddles and mysteries," he said...
Here is the link for more about that.
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COLUMBUS (AP) — A treasure hunter has taken back a pledge to turn over 500 missing coins just days after he promised to deliver the coins minted from gold found in a shipwreck off the South Carolina coast.
The Columbus Dispatch reports Tommy Thompson agreed on Wednesday to deliver the coins to a court-appointed receiver by Sunday to settle a lawsuit brought by an investor.
The paper says the deal fell apart Friday when Thompson said he has no idea how to obtain the coins.
Thompson found the S.S. Central America in 1988 after convincing more than 100 investors to fund the voyage for nearly $13 million.
Thompson never repaid the investors. He became a fugitive and fled...
Here are a couple links.
https://www.limaohio.com/wire/state-wire/329120/treasure-hunter-flip-flops-over-returning-missing-gold-coins
Here are a couple links.
You might remember when a fugitive Tommy Thompson was apprehended in a Boca Raton hotel.
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Here is a link that you can use to find some information on Florida shoreline changes. Not all of it is up-to-date.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach, including drinking cups, bottles and flip-flops, a park official said Tuesday, causing concern among environmentalists and government officials in one of the world’s largest plastic-polluting countries...
Santoso said researchers from wildlife conservation group WWF and the park’s conservation academy found about 5.9 kilograms (13 pounds) of plastic waste in the animal’s stomach containing 115 plastic cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags, 2 flip-flops, a nylon sack and more than 1,000 other assorted pieces of plastic...
For more -
http://www.startribune.com/dead-whale-had-115-plastic-cups-2-flip-flops-in-its-stomach/500897282/
I'm always amazed by the number of flip flops and other plastic that washes up on the beaches on the Treasure Coast.
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I've been busy with holiday activities already. I always like the holidays.
Cooler weather is on the way. The Treasure Coast surf is down to two to three feet, but the tides are still big.
We'll be getting more west and northwest winds, so I'm not expecting any improvement in beach detecting conditions.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
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