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WilliamWhit t1_j029xbz wrote

I’m sorry, but expensive or not, we’re not gonna take the chance and look for treasure in the spooky washed up ship?!

That’s just crazy.

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tree-molester t1_j02etmt wrote

I love the woman/girl digging with flip-flops. Serious excavation here. Although I guess they wore slides when building the pyramids.

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Emotional_Dare5743 t1_j02re62 wrote

Florida is festooned with wrecks and buried debris. Many of the folks that lived in Florida during the 1800s and early 1900s built entire houses out of the wreckage of ships and cargo. In the late 1800s the US government even established a series of outposts up the entire East coast of Florida for shipwrecked mariners. They were spaced out in such a way that a sailor wouldn't have to walk more than 5 or 10 miles in any direction without coming to one. The Gulf Stream parallels the East coast of Florida. It was a superhighway of trade during the colonial era and is still a busy body of water.

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ghunt81 t1_j02vtzd wrote

I feel like this happens every time a hurricane hits the east coast of Florida. Hell I remember an old wooden ship being uncovered after one of the hurricanes at a beach near my grandparent's house. Hurricane Andrew maybe?

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C2h6o4Me t1_j0386p0 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#920,630)

That's asinine. I want to believe that you're saying it out of respect for the dead, recognizing that they died there specifically for a reason, etc. But is exhuming bodies that are a few hundred years old for examination, with the unlikely expectation of identification, and (presumably?) later reburial more respectful than than, you know, actually letting them rest in peace? All because of a western concept of what a "proper burial" is defined as?

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Princess_Moon_Butt t1_j03aaxb wrote

Replying to Pt_Zero (#921,552)

Slave ship or not, there's a good chance the crew was able to make it off the boat, even if they didn't make it all the way to shore.

But if it was a slave ship, they probably left the "cargo" chained up below deck.

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FapDonkey t1_j03cly2 wrote

Replying to tree-molester (#920,563)

Lol. She's a Floridian. Flops are acceptable wear for literally any occasion. Church, even on Easter or Christmas (as a kid, we had a new priest come down from NY one year and try to tell the altar boys that they werent allowed to wear sandals... the Pastor gave him a little talk and explained that he's in Florida now). Weddings. Funerals. Jobsite. Surgical operating room. Meeting with the President. All flops-appropriate. Digging up pirate treasure... on the BEACH?!?!?! I'd be offended if she WASN'T in flops.

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JustARegularDeviant t1_j03cqcd wrote

I'm from Daytona Beach! I may actually return to FL to see this thing

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fArmageddon2 t1_j03gkdg wrote

“To figure out what was buried in the sand, archaeologists dug a hole and looked closer at it.” Genius idea

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Getsor t1_j03mldo wrote

If this was in europe, this ship would probably be still registered and insured.

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Pt_Zero t1_j03s98v wrote

Replying to arillyis (#921,644)

Either we’re valuing lives equally or we’re not. If they’re not implying that the slaves bodies are somehow more valuable than the crew of a non-slave ship, it’s a needless and stupid distinction to make. They didn’t explicitly say it, but it’s heavily implied. Otherwise, why make that distinction at all?

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OtisTetraxReigns t1_j03zzyo wrote

Replying to Pt_Zero (#921,552)

Are you familiar enough with burial rites of East African cultures of the 18th century to decide what counts as a “proper burial” for those people? Because if not, you’re doing it out of guilt rather than respect for the dead.

Build a memorial, by all means, but leave the bodies alone.

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Pt_Zero t1_j043vgn wrote

Replying to ixNet (#923,296)

Does it matter in this context? At least you’re willing to admit that in your mind the bodies of slaves are more valuable to you than anyone else. Personally I think they’re all about the same. I think it’s an utterly silly distinction to make especially when we have no clue who any of these people were in life.

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ixNet t1_j0456eh wrote

Replying to Pt_Zero (#923,444)

I agree with that and ultimately think bodies should be undisturbed for a plethora of reasons, including contribution to the ecosystems due to tissue decay. I was just pointing out why the contexts of their deaths can be assumed to be even less of their own volition.

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assholetoall t1_j06rob2 wrote

Replying to fArmageddon2 (#922,386)

IT guy checking in. We frequently get asked for a complex technology based solution to a problem that can be easily solved by manual efforts (often it's a management problem).

My guess is that digging a hole is a novel idea because people expect some hi-tech method. Ground penetrating radar, ancient ocean predators with lasers, computer modeling, etc.

Just carefully dig a hole and look with Mark 1 eyeball systems.

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Miss_Mello t1_j06v6li wrote

Replying to derpferd (#922,543)

We use the term a lot in dentistry. It is the process of sculpting or carving base plate wax to resemble gums on dentures and removable partial dentures. Random fact of the day. :P

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JacobLyon t1_j0744dm wrote

And who says global warming is all bad?!

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FSchmertz t1_j0x5zru wrote

Replying to Emotional_Dare5743 (#921,143)

Sounds very similar to what was at the barrier islands of North Carolina. That area is referred to as "The Graveyard of the Atlantic." It's the area that the Labrador Current and the Gulf Current intersect, building up sandbars and such.

Much of the housing (and economy really) originated by materials from the frequent shipwrecks, and they had rescue stations all along the coast with some very brave people who made frequent and extraordinary rescues of ship crews.

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Annomaander_Rake t1_j16rpus wrote

Replying to assholetoall (#928,049)

We live in a world of technology worship, as I’m sure you know better than I do, being that you are part of IT. So whenever a problem can be solved by something hi tech, I think everyone collectively gets a hard on. Especially news outlets. They love reporting about a hi tech solution to something that could have been solved the old fashioned way.

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