4/17/13 Report - Armour Pierceing Cannon Ball from the Mary Rose, 1914 D Penny to Look For, & Tracking Treasure

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Photo From the Current Issue of The Telegraph.
See link below.

The 150-foot Mary Rose sank in 1545 during a battle with the French, killing 500 sailors on board.

Layers of
silt preserved the ship until it was salvaged in 1982.

A museum for the ship will open later this year presenting thousands

4/16/13 Report - Treasure of the San Miguel, Mystery Item, and Gold Dust & Nuggets

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Robert K. Gold Dredging.
Photo submitted and rights owned by Robert K.

I've said before that the readers of this blog have a lot of experience. 

Here is one, Robert K. doing some gold dredging.

 

Nice photo Robert.  That looks like a lot of fun.

 

I always recommend participating in as many

3/28/13 Report - North Winds Continue & Dutch Shipwreck

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One Typical Treasure Coast Treasure Beach Yesterday


There are actually some small cuts on a few beaches right now.  There aren't many and they aren't big (one foot and less), but there are a few out there.

The surf has been running only around 2 feet, so why are there any cuts at all?   That is a good

9/12/12 Report - Wreck of the USS Hatteras, Old Button & Gold Found.

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Typical Treasure Coast Beach Yesterday



After I had been to the beach yesterday, I came home and the wind really picked up and came in from the Northeast.   That was a dirty trick.  I was there too early.  I doubt that it was enough to move all of that built up sand anyhow, but I would have

8/18/12 Report - Comments on Anchor Find

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Salvage Boats on Nieves Site Thursday



It has been in the papers and it has been on the news.  It seems like it has been everywhere and is the most talked about treasure story of the Treasure Coast this week.  You've probably already heard about it - the anchor found in the ocean near

8/13/12 Report - 1715 Fleet Salvage Vessels at Work & More

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Salvage Vessel At Nieves Site Sunday


The salvage vessels were busy at work on the Nieves site yesterday.   Here is a photo showing the largest of the vessels at work near low tide.  This vessel was near the main ballast pile about a hundred yards off shore right in front of the entrance road at the

5/27/12 - Memorial Day Report

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Memorial Day was originally instituted by the US to commemorate fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War. By the 20th century Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces and has become a time to generally remember deceased relatives and

5/20/12 Report - Wreck Found in Gulf, 2-Reales Found & Petition Reminder

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Wreck discovered by NOAA in the Gulf.   Photo by NOAA.

Copper Shell of 19th Century Wreck Found in the Gulf.


Additional information and the photo can be found by using the following link.

http://www.livescience.com/20377-shipwreck-gulf-mexico.html

Nice photo.

The wood has mostly dissolved,

12/23/11 Report - Shipwreck For Sale & Some Precautions

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Artifacts From a 1700 Era British War Ship






For $150,000 you can buy 1000 artifacts, including those shown above, from a 1700s era British warship.  Many of the artifacts are still encrusted.   Included are cannons, lead hull patches, hooks, spikes, cannon balls, and many unidentified pieces. 

I

11/17/11 Report - Shipwreck Count Estimation

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Encrusted Scissors.Photo received by email from the Mel Fisher organization.The trail of the Atocha has been producing a lot of artifacts in recent weeks. A number of encrusted objects, including these scissors, were found recently.I've shown some found Florida bottles in the past. As you might know, nice old

9/5/11 Report - More Shipwreck Wood Finds, & Lost Items Reported

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Shipwreck Plank Recovered This Weekend on a Treasure Coast Beach.

Yesterday I talked a little about shipwreck wood found on beaches or in the shallow water. I mentioned yesterday that it seems that Irene stirred up some things on the Treasure Coast even if detecting conditions for cobs and

9/5/11 Report - Emily, Henry Morgan, and Blackbeard

Latest Press Release from Sedwick Coins.You can still consign items to the upcoming auction but not for long. See the press release at the right or the Sedwick Coins web site for more details.Five of Henry Morgan's ships have been located near the mouth of the Chagres River near the coast of Panama where they were lost in 1671. One clue is the six iron cannons that appear to be 17th Century.The

7/17/11 Report - Cobs, Maravedis, Odyssey Marine, LaSalle Shipreck, and Conditions

1731 Reale.You'll find this cob, with many more examples, on the web site that I mention below.Odyssey Marine common stock jumped over 10 percent Friday. That is pretty good return for a single day. You can't make that much on a ten year CD. OMEX has been very volatile lately, increasing rapidly right before the issuance of millions of new shares, and then falling just as rapidly. If you are a

6/19/11 Report - Mystery Shipwreck & Three Common Metal Detecting Misconceptions

Typical Treasure Coast Beach This Morning.Almost all old shipwrecks are mysteries to some degree, but there is one Treasure Coast shipwreck site that is a bit more of a mystery than most of the others. Although most people that know about it speak of it as if it is a shipwreck, it was once thought that it might not be the site of a shipwreck but rather a camp where treasure was transferred, or

6/2/11 Report - Florida Laws & Identifying Fake Coins

Parts From Rosary? (Photo submitted by Michael H.)That is what Michael H. thought his finds might be. He also recently found what looks like a musket ball on Fort Lauderdale beach. People don't often associate thinks like musket balls and shipwrecks with much of South Florida, but they have those things as well.I recently made some comments about detecting South Florida, and mentioned some of

5/18/11 Report - 1715 Fleet Shipwreck Screw Top & Treasure Coast UFO Photo???

1715 Fleet Shipwreck Screw Top Listed on EBay.I thought it would be a good idea to show this photo because I bet there are a lot of people that would simply throw this thing away if they found it. I bet a lot of you never associated screw tops with Spanish shipwrecks. This item is said to be a screw top from a container that might have been used to hold sugar. Might be, I guess. It is listed for

5/16/11 Report - Cannon, Lost Merchant Shipwreck & the Danger of Over-Simplification

One Treasure Coast Beach Yesterday at Low Tide.More on that below along with today's photos.The Mel Fisher organization is building a custom designed Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) capable to go after the treasure of the Lost Merchant off the coast of North Florida. They have just finished an electronic survey of 37 miles of ocean and will use the new ROV to recover the treasure once this wreck

5/3/11 Report - Blade? Found on Treasure Coast & More On Lines and Holes

Guess What This Is.This is a really neat item found on the St. Johns wreck and pictured in the Fisher organization report that I mentioned yesterday for the St. Johns Wreck. I didn't keep it secret very long, but the item is a conquistador helmet. I wonder how many of you would have tossed it away if you dug it up on a beach?The report also has a drawing of how the helmet would have looked new.

4/2/11 Report - Shipwreck Wood and Spike & $290 Million Treasure

Recently Found Wood Showing Spike Hole.Here is a piece of wood that I picked up in a shell pile the other day. As you can see it has a nice square hole through it. The wood is very hard almost like it is fossilized. It appears that the rust leached onto or into the surrounding wood, which seems to make the wood harder and more resistant to deterioration. I've noticed that before on shipwreck wood

2/6/11 Report - Rill Cove Shipwreck & Moving Sand

4 Real From Rill Cove Wreck for Sale on EBay.Artificial light can give a strange color to photographed items.I ran across an interesting site concerning the "Rill Cove Wreck," sometimes referred to as the "Lizard Silver Wreck." It isn't a Treasure Coast wreck, but reading about it is instructive and provides information that anyone hunting the Treasure Coast beaches should know.The wreck remains