What is the mystery structure on Florida beach?

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. – Mysterious debris revealed in the wake of Hurricane Nicole in Daytona Beach Shores could be a ship from the 19th century. Archaeologists with the state uncovered about 20 feet of what appears to be a cargo vessel or merchant ship, the equivalent of a semitruck, on Tuesday.



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'Mystery object' on beach in Daytona is a shipwreck, archaeologists say. The wreckage washed up on the beach in pieces after Hurricanes Ian and Nicole, but the ship was partially buried. Archeologists now say it's a shipwreck.

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On Tuesday, after a group of approximately 10 Florida archaeologists dug in the sand to uncover the structure, it seems a shipwreck from the 1800s is the most likely conclusion. “This is definitely a ship,” said Chuck Meide, director of the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP) from the St.

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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.

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What mysterious 24 Metre structure discovered under sand on Florida beach? On Tuesday, Fox 35 Orlando reported that the structure is likely the remains of a shipwreck from the 1800s. Reporter Amanda McKenzie said archeologists at the site believe the remains are that of a merchant ship.

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(AP) — Severe beach erosion from two late-season hurricanes has helped uncover what appears to be a wooden ship dating from the 1800s which had been buried under the sand on Florida's East Coast for up to two centuries, impervious to cars that drove daily on the beach or sand castles built by generations of tourists.

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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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Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum. A contingent of Florida-based archaeologists have officially identified a mysterious, 100-foot long wooden structure recently exposed by hurricane-related beach erosion as the wreckage of a 19th-century cargo ship.

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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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The name is most commonly used to refer to a relatively quiet, undeveloped and largely uninhabited section of coastline stretching from Mexico Beach on the Gulf of Mexico to St. Marks on Apalachee Bay in the U.S. state of Florida.

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AUGUSTINE, Fla. (WFLA) — Construction crews in Florida unearthed a shipwreck from the 19th century while working on a road project in downtown St. Augustine last week.

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The sand is made from pure white quartz crystal, which came from the Appalachian Mountains at the end of the last Ice Age and was deposited into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Most beaches contain quartz sand brought to the coast by rivers draining the Appalachian mountains. Many beaches also contain shells and shell fragments Florida's coastline spans over 1,260 miles. Only Alaska has more coastline. The coast has and shorelines.

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