Raising of artifacts from Confederate ironclad CSS Georgia in Savannah harbor
lordmarcovan
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<< <i>LordM, you should take up some scuba diving. >>
My buddy Billy (he of the nice 1798 cents and Spanish ingot) is training for that.
But he's a hardcore relic hunter and bushwhacker. Me, I'm more the casual urban-park-and-sidewalk coinshooter type.
You have to be hardcore to dive in the rivers around here, which is his intention. The waters are so murky from sediment there is practically zero visibility. It's called "blackwater" diving, though in reality the water in our rivers and ocean close to shore are more a muddy brown. Not to mention the bull sharks. And this is supposedly one of the largest breeding areas for hammerhead sharks on the Atlantic coast.
So... yeah. Thanks, but no thanks. I'd rather view the divers' finds vicariously, in air-conditioned, reasonably dry comfort on land.
(But speaking of sharks, Billy is taking up diving largely to find more of the big megalodon shark tooth fossils than he is for detecting and relic hunting purposes, though he'll probably do both.)
<< <i>Me, I'm more the casual urban-park-and-sidewalk coinshooter type.
So... yeah. Thanks, but no thanks. I'd rather view the divers' finds vicariously, in air-conditioned, reasonably dry comfort on land. >>
Wuss.
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<< <i>LordM, if he will be hunting Megalodon teeth, won't he have to dredge a bit? And that will make the water even murkier.... OK, I have no idea what techniques could be used, just really wondering how he would do that....Cheers, RickO >>
Most of the Megs we find are on dry land, in spoil material brought up by the big channel dredges, yes. But apparently one can skim these fossils out of the river bottom mud, too. Billy has even talked about guys in bass boats dragging the bottom with something like a "french fry basket" to come up with fossils. So apparently in some of the rivers, they aren't too deep in the mud. Yes, churning up the mud would bring zero visibility, but visibility in these rivers is probably pretty close to zero to begin with, there is so much sediment. I've heard that the really prime Megalodon fossils found in the Charleston, SC area are found by divers in the rivers, who use the "braille" method... basically groping around with their hands along the bottom. (To which I say, "no thank you very much".)
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didn't read the entire article or if it mentioned the lost nuclear bomb that is somewhere out there as well....
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