What structure was unearthed by hurricanes?

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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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 wood and metal debris found on the beach in Florida is likely from a historic cargo shipwreck. A piece of the past has returned to haunt a Florida beach after a curious object made of wood and metal emerged in the aftermath of Hurricane Nicole last month.

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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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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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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 object was discovered after the two hurricanes that came through the state this year. After both Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Nicole ravaged parts of Florida during the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, erosion from the storms has unearthed something previously buried in the sand of a central Florida beach.

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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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In November, after first Ian, then Nicole washed out anywhere from 4 to 8 feet of sand elevation, the remains of a wooden-hulled ship dating back to the 1800s were revealed on the shores near Frank Rendon Park. Now this new discovery has been made.

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An aerial tour of the region in north-central Florida where Idalia made landfall early Wednesday and nearby communities revealed the devastating scale of destruction across Florida's Big Bend from Cedar Key northwest to Horseshoe Beach to Steinhatchee to Keaton Beach to Perry and nearby Live Oak.

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