Monday, September 23, 2019

9/23/19 Report - From the Treasure Coast to the Palm Beaches - Conditions and Finds. Triton Submarines Visit the Titanic.


Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.


Palm Beach
Photo by Joe D.

Palm Beach.
Photo by Joe D.

The South Hutchinson Island beaches were not looking good this morning.  In fact those beaches haven't changed much at all in the last few weeks even though they were hit by Dorian and a lot of high surf.  The swells have continued to hit the beach directly at a ninety degree angle for weeks now.  Its amazing how little the beaches have changed during that length of time.

John Brooks was unchanged this morning, except for some very shallow dips, which could also be found on other beaches.

Walton Rocks Beach Monday Morning.
Walton Rocks looked very much like the other beaches I saw.  The beach was more convex than is apparent in this photo, but there was a very sparse coin line just above the water line.  I'm pretty sure those coins and other items were washed up out of the water, but I'm not completely sure.  The water had been up to the vegetation.

A bit farther south ( I don't know the name of the beach ) I found the cut shown below.

Eroded Bank in Renourishment Sand.

Even though there is a cut here, the cut is in renourishment sand and the same beach was cut down much lower a year or so ago.

I found an MRE this morning.

MRE on Beach This Morning.

Overall, beach conditions remain poor.

Before long I'm sure they'll use Dorian or any other excuse to spend some FEMA money to dump more sand on the beaches.

DJ sent a link to the coastal management plan for our region.

Here it is.

https://connect.xfinity.com/appsuite/#!!&app=io.ox/mail/detail&folder=default0/INBOX&id=176559

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Triton Submarines of Sebastian recently made the first manned dive in fourteen years to the Titanic to document changes to the wreck.

Here is that link.

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-county/2019/08/21/triton-submarine-sebastian-documents-titanic-wreckage/2071692001/

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There are three storms in the Atlantic, but it looks like they'll stay away from Florida.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net