Merrill interviews the 1715 Treasure Coast master beach hunter

All this chatter about broomsticks , F4 tornadoes , pirate ships , gold swimming up on the beach like grunion. It's all freaking me out ! We are supposed to get hurricane surf in about a week. We shall see how that pans out. But I envision myself with a butterfly net running down the beach catching gold rings before they hit the sand.🦋🌀🌊
 
Dang bro . , I am scratching my head , I am guessing Like Melbourne/ Broward Co. is much different from Vero & Fort Pierce , Indian river Co . , Ill have to look that up , as I have heard- it has changed down there since I last visited in 2010-2013 , just wondering how much- it has changed . Crime , Cost of Living, Migration , Safety at the beach , I like no worries ! PS Just let my dog out 86 degrees 75% humidity :madmad: I should look into moving to Maine , Cooler & Gold :gettinmoney:

No, Melbourne is Brevard county. Not Broward. Broward county is Fort Lauderdale.
 
All this chatter about broomsticks , F4 tornadoes , pirate ships , gold swimming up on the beach like grunion. It's all freaking me out ! We are supposed to get hurricane surf in about a week. We shall see how that pans out. But I envision myself with a butterfly net running down the beach catching gold rings before they hit the sand.🦋🌀🌊

Lol. I’m not finished yet. I just have to work today. There’s more coming.😂
 
No, it would be like a mop leaning up against the railing after 300 years of F 4 tornadoes.
You said your find was in a 40 foot hole that you blew away down to bedrock and found all those coins scattered in a more or less circle with a 40 ft diameter. You have way more experience at finding and retrieving gold coins from a 1715 wreck. I have no such experience and have never found a gold coin anywhere.

I went back to the interview of Terry Shannon. THe object that moved 300 yards up the beach in 3 days was a mans wedding ring. Probably 10k maybe 14k. That is pretty light compared to a gold coin which was probably 22k or better and heavy. So comparing gold coins to a 14k wedding ring is comparing apples to oranges. Yes I think most of us know gold jewelry does move quite a bit in all directions.

But there are still many reports on the beach of beachcombers retrieving gold and silver coins on the beach from nearby offshore 1715 fleet wrecks. The Corrigan (Santo Cristo de San Roman) wreck was named after the beachcomber who found gold coins on the beach near the wreck site.
Lol. I’m not finished yet. I just have to work today. There’s more coming.😂
scoundrel were you part of this treasure recovery? If not what 1715 fleet wrecks did you dive on and recover treasure? It is rare to be able to converse with members of 1715 wreck teams.

 
Love reading these threads, anything 1715 has always interested me. I hope to be able to at least check out the museum one day :lol: Definitely jelly of those who were able to be there for the recovery!
 
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Everything I mentioned was mentioned already in the thread. I just hadn't read that far
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Lol. I’m not finished yet. I just have to work today. There’s more coming.😂
What I really want to know is how involved were you in on these recoveries ? You get to keep any ? Idk if I could handle a job where you yank up all this treasure only to hand it all over to somebody else. Unless you are a true Scoundrel and went in off the clock.🤣
 
What I really want to know is how involved were you in on these recoveries ? You get to keep any ? Idk if I could handle a job where you yank up all this treasure only to hand it all over to somebody else. Unless you are a true Scoundrel and went in off the clock.🤣
Truth be told, the four summers that I was on the Capatana , not even a piece of pottery was unaccounted for, let alone any coins. And that is unheard of in this business, as we are all going to witness shortly. As I said another post, get your popcorn. It’s about to get spicy.
 
I went back to the interview of Terry Shannon. THe object that moved 300 yards up the beach in 3 days was a mans wedding ring. Probably 10k maybe 14k.
I'll have to go back to his vid and see what the story was on the ring. But if you do a lot of ring recoveries you will learn a lot of people aren't good at remembering where they actually lost something. I did have an Autistic boy one time lead me down a beach to find his coin ring he lost that was his Grandfather's who died. Figured I was going to be looking a while. Found it in 45 seconds. That kid was dead on for a spot not marked anywhere. And that was in the water.
 
I'll have to go back to his vid and see what the story was on the ring. But if you do a lot of ring recoveries you will learn a lot of people aren't good at remembering where they actually lost something. I did have an Autistic boy one time lead me down a beach to find his coin ring he lost that was his Grandfather's who died. Figured I was going to be looking a while. Found it in 45 seconds. That kid was dead on for a spot not marked anywhere. And that was in the water.

Are you the Larry that I ran into a couple of years ago north of Daytona? You were with your wife.
 
Love reading these threads, anything 1715 has always interested me. I hope to be able to at least check out the museum one day :lol: Definitely jelly of those who were able to be there for the recovery!

You said your find was in a 40 foot hole that you blew away down to bedrock and found all those coins scattered in a more or less circle with a 40 ft diameter. You have way more experience at finding and retrieving gold coins from a 1715 wreck. I have no such experience and have never found a gold coin anywhere.

I went back to the interview of Terry Shannon. THe object that moved 300 yards up the beach in 3 days was a mans wedding ring. Probably 10k maybe 14k. That is pretty light compared to a gold coin which was probably 22k or better and heavy. So comparing gold coins to a 14k wedding ring is comparing apples to oranges. Yes I think most of us know gold jewelry does move quite a bit in all directions.

But there are still many reports on the beach of beachcombers retrieving gold and silver coins on the beach from nearby offshore 1715 fleet wrecks. The Corrigan (Santo Cristo de San Roman) wreck was named after the beachcomber who found gold coins on the beach near the wreck site.

scoundrel were you part of this treasure recovery? If not what 1715 fleet wrecks did you dive on and recover treasure? It is rare to be able to converse with members of 1715 wreck teams.

He did diving on 2 vessels that I know of Capitana , and in 2013 in May- he was diving when I was hunting in between the Gold Hound Morring lines he was working the blow hole .
 
Surfmaster is definitely my biggest fan. Lol. I sent him a ballast stone a long time ago. A nice one. Heavy. I don’t think he appreciated it.
Yes I did like the Ballast Stone , at least because of you , I have something that sailed on a 1715 fleet ship , Rio Mar I believe, am I right, or wrong mate.
 
How about I just sign your ballast stone.😁
How about you read post 57 all over again , again , & again :yes::shock::lol::scope::friends::stormy: I need a real gold kob to go with the 14 k chain ! PS send me the real deal , gonna have Larry bite it , give it the real deal test :yes:
 

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