appalachicola river treasures

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Been talking to one of my new light customers from Florida and learning about a whole other reason for diving.

He dives for fossils and artifacts in the appalachicola river near panama city. He sez the viz is a consistant 2' with a good light and there is always current but he finds awesome stuff. He has found Mastodon tusks and teeth, bar and cannon shot, petrified wood and the common shark teeth mixed in with whale teeth, arrow heads, civil war artifacts and tons more stuff.
Here are a few pix he sent of some of his finds.
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whale tooth
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Mastodon tooth and tusk
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Bar shot and cannon balls
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Assorted teeth
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petrified wood
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Very cool!
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That is very cool!!! I've a feeling the rivers there move a tad slower than ours though... and a different strata of soil types as well... But that's really cool though and it would be a blast to give it a shot, you never know what you'll find...
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Cool stuff. I've never found anything of the like in Redondo River :(
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Alexitt wrote:That is very cool!!! I've a feeling the rivers there move a tad slower than ours though... and a different strata of soil types as well... But that's really cool though and it would be a blast to give it a shot, you never know what you'll find...
Got a few horse and rhino teeth & bones from the rivers of Nebraska, it was fun finding things like this!

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diverden wrote:Cool stuff. I've never found anything of the like in Redondo River :(
I think you have to dig in said river... :)

And with the tide predictions for tomorrow's Club Dive there might actually be that opportunity! :eek:
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Good chance the redondo river will be running tomorrow with an almost 12 foot exchange starting about 9am!
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In the south there are people who dive and find many similar things, but its pretty crazy as there is no viz and there are tons of gators in the rivers people dive in to find that stuff... I think I will just stick it out with my chances of only seeing a 6 gill someday versus gators.
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That's just cool.
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