how to make a small fortune treasure shipwreck hunting in florida

[Bum Luck]

Some Pull tabs are now over 50 years old. Have you been breaking the law by removing Pull tabs from the soil?

It's easy to tell 50 year old hypodermic needles; they're larger than the newer ones. But - I guess the lady is right - the newer ones will someday become valuable artifacts.

 

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[ropesfish]

Things that are more than 50 years old that the State of Floriduh has laid claim to:
Rocks- every rock on the planet.
A good portion of the beer cans that we did up offshore could be 50 years old...buried 3 or 4 feet in the sand.
Lead sinkers and fishing lures. How do we tell the age of lead sinkers? We find lots of them...should we leave them 'in situ'?
The crow bar I dropped in a pond when I was 11. Never did find it and I can't now.
The batteries, engine blocks and other things dropped off every dock in Florida 'back in the day'. "Earl! You gonna carry them 4 8D batteries to the truck?" "Hell no, Ted. They're heavy." Splash.
90 percent of the shipwreck treasure hunters I have met, except for Carl Fismer and the elusive Pat Clyne, are old enough to be classified as submerged cultural resources. Those two are ageless...guess that's what happens when rum is used as a preservative.
Ahhhh, Florida.
For more escapades of the intellectual elite: FloriDUH: Weird Florida News - Orlando Sentinel

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Things that are more than 50 years old that the State of Floriduh has laid claim to:
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Haha, well I know this is a "shipwreck salvor" forum-section. But in-so-far as md'ing pertains to normal inter-tidal zone fumble fingers beach-hunting: The newbie skittish questions on "where can I beach hunt in FL?" seem to come up all the time on forums, right ? And long-time FL beach hunters answer them with affirmative "it's legal" answers all the time, right ?

Yet truth-be-told, it's technically legal in-so-far as you're not finding items that are not artifacts or cultural heritage. And if you sleuth deeply enough (and ask enough bored archies) you will eventually conclude that's 50 or more years old. However, no one in FL seems to be bothered with such nuances.

Same for State of CA: You can hunt our state-of-CA administered beaches here till you're blue in the face. Yet I'll bet if you connected enough dots, and asked enough purist archies, I'll bet that *technically* you can't disturb 50+ yr. old objects. It's a good thing that all my coins are 49 yrs. or less old !

 

[huntsman53]

Things that are more than 50 years old that the State of Floriduh has laid claim to:
Rocks- every rock on the planet.
A good portion of the beer cans that we did up offshore could be 50 years old...buried 3 or 4 feet in the sand.
Lead sinkers and fishing lures. How do we tell the age of lead sinkers? We find lots of them...should we leave them 'in situ'?
The crow bar I dropped in a pond when I was 11. Never did find it and I can't now.
The batteries, engine blocks and other things dropped off every dock in Florida 'back in the day'. "Earl! You gonna carry them 4 8D batteries to the truck?" "Hell no, Ted. They're heavy." Splash.
90 percent of the shipwreck treasure hunters I have met, except for Carl Fismer and the elusive Pat Clyne, are old enough to be classified as submerged cultural resources. Those two are ageless...guess that's what happens when rum is used as a preservative.
Ahhhh, Florida.
For more escapades of the intellectual elite: FloriDUH: Weird Florida News - Orlando Sentinel

That is a good one! It seems that Florida sun, the salt from the ocean and in the air as well as Rum turns the skin to something akin to leather. They won't need a mortician when they pass, just a box and a hole to put it in as they are already mummified.


Frank

 

[old_chase]

I never find coins over 50 yrs. old. Do you ?

Ha!

 

[Blak bart]

Somebody needs to send a bucket of 1967 pennies to the state of Florida ...and ask why its against the law to dig them up .,
If you confront them with their own foolishness.... you might get a response...
Personally. I'd try Adam Putnam first...he's a farmboy with eyes on being the next governor..

Heck......the state of florida should send me a bucket of 67 pennies for picking up so much trash off the beaches. Ill roll em up and cash um in for silver.