What is the mysterious debris on the beach in Florida?

– Archaeologists said Tuesday that debris that appeared on a beach in Florida after Hurricane Nicole last month is likely a shipwreck from the 19th Century. According to FOX 35 Orlando, the debris was discovered a couple of weeks ago in Daytona Beach Shores after part of the beach washed away during Hurricane Nicole.



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Last month people noticed wood jutting from the sand in Daytona Beach Shores. Speculation ran wild, but archaeologists now say it was a ship, most likely a 19th-century merchant vessel.

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Sargassum is a species of large brown seaweed, a type of macroalgae that floats in large masses. On some beaches in Florida, the blobs of crunchy, dry, brown stinky seaweed are fairly large. In one of our photo galleries below, you'll see a small mountain of sargassum seaweed, and a black dog posing next to it.

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The blob, known as the great Atlantic Sargassum belt, shrank in the Gulf of Mexico by 75 percent last month, scientists said. For months, Florida's usually picturesque coast was plagued by a rotting tangle of seaweed, known as sargassum.

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Buried 19th-century shipwreck likely uncovered by hurricanes on Florida beach. The wreckage was unearthed in Daytona Beach Shores on Florida's east coast. The wreckage was discovered after Hurricanes Nicole and Ian caused beach erosion in the area.

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There's the $23 million park makeover, new $65 million Brown & Brown insurance company headquarters and $4 million Beach Street overhaul. And there are plans for apartments, parking garages, a grocery store and possibly a new City Hall.

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Shell fragments, fossils and organic matter give beaches different colors. Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach have patches of sand look quite orange. It isn't the sand that is orange but the coquina shell fragments that have absorbed the rusty color of iron oxide.

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