No gold tonight but a second cannonball is just fine with me

[bdahunter]

I went out for a hunt tonight on my favorite beach and found a couple of deep targets, the last one being what I have to assume is another heavily encrusted cannonball. [attachment 30544 P6300003Medium.JPG]
The finds shown in the bucket have all come from the same area of beach which is in a cove on the western tip of Bermuda. This is the point at which the old spanish treasure ships would make there turn towards Spain and home.[attachment 30545 P6300001_editedMedium.JPG]

I will post pics of the cleaned finds as soon as they are available.

BDA

 

[Gulf Hunter]

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[bdahunter]

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[JoeSWFLA]

If you find the source of the EO's that would be great too.Wish I
was in your area, I would love to hunt for shipwreck relics,even
more than modern jewerly,by a long shot.Keep posting your water
relic finds,a lot of us in this hobby love that stuff.If you find
more EO's(encrusted objects),you never know what can be in them.
I recall a person finding a clump of iron that everbody kept
passing up , and in it where shipwreck coins.You just never know.
Good luck ,HH , and don,t scrim out everything on the beach,
you might just get lucky. Joe

 

[syfta]

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[bdahunter]

I was mistaken but thanks for letting me know that. I get a way bigger kick out of the old marine relics myself. There is something so much more exciting and interesting to me about holding a piece of history in my hand than another piece of jewellery.
Now if I could combine relic and jewellery together in one find, that would be outstanding.
Something like the cross pictured below that Teddy Tucker pulled out of these waters when he was still treasure diving.
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Excerpt from "How I Found the Cross by Teddy Tucker"...

September 1955, and the weather was getting worse. Then on the seventh day, a Sunday, I found the greatest single object of all. Eager to work faster, I took a water hose down to the bottom and turned on the jet to blast sand from the area below the brain coral. After carving a deep hole I turned the jet off. When the debris settled, my eyes fell on a gold cross lying face down in the sand, I picked it up and turned it over. Awe struck, I counted the large green emeralds on its face. There were seven of them, each as big as a musket ball. From small rings on the arms of the cross hung tiny gold nails, representing the nails in Christ

 

[Gary in Daytona]

and take away everyone else's chance to see this cross in person. Probably long since melted down and resold I'm afraid.

 

[bdahunter]

Most likely it wound up in somebody's private collection as it would be worth much more intact. Let's hope it sees the light of day again in the future.

 

[JoeSWFLA]

He was quite an interesting character.Led a very interesting life,
compared to some of us regular working stiffs. Kind of like
Bob Marx, Mel Fisher, etc.. HH Joe

 

[bdahunter]

I spoke to a good friend of Teddy's the other day. He still lives in his beautiful old house on the point at Cambridge Beaches, but he may be putting his salvage ship up for sale. He's still busy working in co-operation with national geographic and the bermuda underwater exploration institute on deep sea creatures if I'm not mistaken.
Teddy figures he just scratched the surface of treasure hunting in Bermuda, I sure hope he's right.
As you say, he is by all accounts quite a man and a pioneer in underwater treasure hunting.

BDA