ScubaFinder said:
It looks like SpearIt is collecting teeth in the ocean, but it also looked like the ones pulled from rivers were better preserved, is this the case?
Jason
Way old thread - written when these fishes were still young and frisky... The ocean sites are kinda twofold. Cape Fear Divers (under yet another ownership with a new website and name, I think lacking the 's') runs a lot of trips out to "meg ledge." As I understand it, there is a small dropoff where the teeth are eroding from the clay matrix. Up in this area the teeth you find are more likely to be in terrific condition, but there are fewer of them. The last owner (I think) pulled a 6 7/8 99.9% perfect tooth out of a slot a couple of years ago, or at least so he related to us in the store with a couple of other Tnettters there who had been on that trip and 'concurred.' But as I say, fewer of them, so they tend to drop people on the sandy areas a couple of hundred feet or so farther offshore. Here you find teeth that have worked loose over some (long) period of time and have concentrated in various places. Many more of them, but as they have been out of the protective layer for much longer they may be more beaten up-but not always. The cool thing is that when you find one on the surface, fanning and digging often reveals more: I pulled half a dozen from one hole although nothing huge or perfect. Guy, who often runs the Cape Fear boat, always seems to come back up with about a dozen good teeth, some almost as big as his tattoo! And a dozen from those sites is impressive as, at 115' or so, that's the haul from about 20 minutes searching!
The Cooper seems to be "the classic" site; I did a couple of days there last year with Off The Wall. Bad vis. Worse current. But tons of stuff ranging from 40 million YO teeth and fossils to 40 YO house bricks, with colonial and native artifacts and just about everything in-between. The haul from 2 days there included a fossil rodent jaw, horse tooth, whale earbone, pieces of "black" glass, native to modern pottery, coke and budweiser bottles, and a fair number of teeth. And alligators, which while "harmless" kept me a little edgy.
But as was mentioned earlier (much earlier
) Robert's Beaufort sites are the best. Close to zero vis. Appalling currents. Way cool sound effects (
). Teeth. And good company! Anytime you want to go, Robert...
