Augustine Lighthouse Archeologist Chuck Meide has confirmed that the mystery object buried on Daytona Beach Shores is a shipwreck. The wreckage can be seen poking out from underneath the sand.
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– 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.
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.
“The whole idea of this particular restaurant was to revitalize this segment of Daytona Beach,” explained Chuck Duva, the owner of Beaches. What used to be an old gas station has been transformed into a multi-use building that houses a restaurant with live entertainment, a car wash and a liquor store.
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.
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.
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.
Sea balls (also known as Aegagropila or Pillae marinae) are tightly packed balls of fibrous marine material, recorded from the seashore. They vary in size but are generally up to 7 centimetres (2.8 in) in size.
Waters around Navagio often have electric light blue colour because of the numerous sulphurous caves around the beach and when the sea is rising a large quantity of sulphur radiates, giving the possibility of taking beautiful pictures.