Shredded Aluminum On The Beach

[slider66]

I keep finding shredded aluminum here on the Treasure Coast. It is a really hard aluminum. It is not from beer cans or coke cans. I am sure that others have found it because I find a lot of it. It almost appears to be from possibly an aircraft. I was wondering if anyone knows what it is? What I am referring to is just below the earring I found today. Thanks

 

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[danimal03]

not sure. but an interesting theory. I agree it does not look like soda cans. I have dived on several WWII aircraft wrecks that were shot down over water. I have not seen that 'melted' look on the aircraft. If it were a land based crash (and long burn) I think it would be a better possibility. I would think an engine would have to be burning a long time in the air to get that sort of effect. My hunch is maybe someone burned a beer keg at a bonfire or the like. But that is just my guess. Maybe someone out there knows for sure what it is.

 

[bigscoop]

Find a lot of that type stuff up here as well. Some of it appears to have been cast, some of it appears to have been melted in the beach fires, some of it looks like broken off edges and corners, etc. With so many people on the beach each year, and for so many years, it's hard telling the source.

 

[redcobra8u]

My guess is melted cans from fires.

 

[kezhk]

I find a lot of those aluminium blobs too. My theory is they are cans that have been crushed down and tumbled in the surf.

 

[GatorBoy]

Remains from underwater welding?

 

[slider66]

It is not aluminum cans. It's more like aircraft aluminum. I have found it in several beaches.


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[Tom_in_CA]

It is not aluminum cans. It's more like aircraft aluminum. I have found it in several beaches.


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No. red-cobra is right: They are aluminum can "nuggets", from when beach-goers throw their cans on bonfires. The cans melt down, and .... presto: nuggets. If you are finding that cr*p on wet-sand beaches, that's a sign that the sand is "soft". It's a sign to look for other wet-sand zones normally, because that junk is light-weight, and would indicate no erosion is going on. When wet sand is eroding, all such light stuff like that gets washed out, and leaves the heavier targets behind. Yum yum

If you really believe they're air-craft aluminum, and think they have some value, I've got a hundred pounds of the stuff I'll sell you cheap!

 

[slider66]

I have never been to a beach on the Treasure Coast where someone had made a fire.


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[lookindown]

Its not pieces from the space shuttle.

 

[Boatlode]

I have found those blobs too, some of them fairly deep (>12") in the wet sand.

 

[CASPER-2]

Its not pieces from the space shuttle.

I was told by veterans of that area that they do find pieces of shuttle on the north end of Treasure coast area
especially after bad storms

 

[CASPER-2]

not to say that is what he has -- cause Im not an expert
but I found piece that was told was shuttle piece by 3 different guys - and these are guys that found some not long after the accident and have since

 

[lookindown]

not to say that is what he has -- cause Im not an expert
but I found piece that was told was shuttle piece by 3 different guys - and these are guys that found some not long after the accident and have since

Pieces have been found on the beach. Some very large pieces have washed up...like 15 foot long pieces.