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

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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

8/4/14 Report - Bertha Becomes Hurricane. Various Treasure Coast Beach Finds.

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Treasure Coast Beach Gold Ring Find
Find and photo by Leonard G.

Leonard G. recently found this gold ring.  Congratulatons Leaonard!  

Leonard uses a Fisher 1280 and a GTA 350.

 

I went out to the beach this morning near low tide and did about an hour an a half of detecting.  The first hole was a silver ring, the fourth hole was a diamond stud earring.

 

Later I found the other stuff.  The percentage of jewelry to coins has been high there lately and the trash in the wet sand area has been very low where I've been hunting.

Below is a picture of the beach there.

Beach This Morning

The wave in this picture looks bigger than it actually was.  It looks much bigger from that angle for some reason.  It was only about a foot or foot and a half at the most.

The sand was nearly flat from the area where the wave is and in for a good fifty or more yards.  The wet sand had small ripples and scattered patches of black sand.  It was a very fine densely packed sand that made digging tough.



NOAA NHC Map.

I'm hoping for some of that sand to get moved some day soon.

Bertha is now a hurricane.  You wouldn't know it by looking at the beach.  She is already north of us and out on the other side of the Bahamas, heading north.

Maybe somebody up the coast will get something from that, but we're just going to get a 1 or 2 foot surf for the next several days.

It seems Bertha turned into a hurricane earlier than expected.
 

 

 



Some Finds From This Morning.

Here are some finds from the beach that I hunted this morning.

I was using the Whites PI again this morning. 

The stud earring didn't make a loud signal, as you would probably guess.  It tests as 9K gold.

I don't know what the big ring is made of.  Maybe titanium, cobalt or stainless steel.

It is just marked Triton.  They can sell for around $200 new.   More than silver in many cases.

I took some videos of the beach, but did a very poor job.   Sheeesh.   My fault, not the camera's.

A lot of people looked at the post about the Booty's find of the gold pyx.   If you haven't seen it you might want to go back and look at it.   I gave a couple of additional links there.

I did a post on old bottles the other day and added a great bottle link to my link list.

Don't forget to use the like button to indicate which posts you like.   Number of readers doesn't seem to highly correlate with number of likes.  Some posts get mentioned various places which brings more readers, so I can't go just by that.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net