capt dom
Hero Member
Take a look at this positive article about how undersea exploration and shipwreck recovery should benifit the present and future:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2007/06/11/a11a_edletters_0611.html
Let wreck salvage firm help out with work on dunes
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Monday, June 11, 2007
For the past 20 years, my company, Jupiter Wreck Inc., has been investigating what is Palm Beach County's earliest recorded maritime event, a ship laden with treasures that met with its end in 1660. We secured our rights in federal courts to this historic shipwreck and, since 1991, have been working with the Division of Historical Resources and other state and federal agencies to solve the enigma of where the main cultural deposit of the shipwreck is. It is a requirement for us to apply for and attain dredge-and-fill permits so we may dig holes to search for these significant cultural remains.
A byproduct of digging a hole is the material that was in the hole. This site is just 300 feet south of Jupiter's Inlet. This material happens to be beach sand - quite a lot of it. During the past 20 years, we have excavated more than 5,000 holes within this area. We have found more than 15,000 artifacts to date, mostly coins; however, the main cultural deposit has eluded us. What we have found, however, is a major inventory (more than 300,000 cubic yards) of the highest-quality beach sand, and we have developed and permitted very efficient ways of moving this sand, which is a practical matter for us.
For years, my dream has been to take this sand and transport it to an upland area, where it vould be utilized for dune restoration and/or beach nourishment. This would turn the sand into the "treasure," as we can move it for a much lower cost than trucking or importing it from any significant distance. At the very same time, we will be uncovering a beautiful, original, on-shore hard bottom reef estuary structure and marine life habitat that inadvertently was buried during the 20th century because of a basic lack of understanding by government officials about how our shoreline process is suppose to work.
In a recent beach renourishment meeting at the Aquarius condo on Singer Island, which all the various regulatory agencies attended, I made the point very clear that we had dredge permits in hand and that, with only slight modification, could allow pumping the sand to a controlled, upland area where it could be de-watered and used as the county saw fit for dune restoration and/or beach nourishment. This is the sand that has just washed off the beach. Nobody listened. Want to know why? Because if we "laymen" happen to be right and can contribute to a better solution to beach restoration that can be compatible with major environmental issues, less tax money will be spent in the future by these same blind agencies who are shoveling against the tide at all of our expense.
Capt Dom
Jupiter
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Beach renourishment is a wasteful, costly subsidy
From time immemorial, the beaches of the planet have existed in one form or another. People with common sense understand that the forces of nature, ocean currents, waves and tides dictate how beaches evolve and move year in and year out. Any attempts by local, state and federal officials to dictate how and where beaches must exist is the costly work of fools - a learning exercise that most involved refuse to understand and a fact that calls into serious question the intelligence of beach renourishment advocates ("Work starts on beach restoration in county," May 30).
For all of those moaning, complaining beachfront property owners, here's a reality check. No one forced you to risk your physical and financial security by investing in ego enhancement property situated in harm's way, and nowhere is it written that the rest of America's taxpayers are obligated to finance survival as a result of your poor choice of location.
Unfortunately, a century of repeated experience with beach erosion has failed to convince government that permitting oceanfront development is a costly no-no, yet we keep electing fools who finance consultants who believe otherwise - for financial gain. Proof positive that the human race is the ultimate cancer on the planet.
VAL MARTIN
Port Salerno
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2007/06/11/a11a_edletters_0611.html
Let wreck salvage firm help out with work on dunes
Listen to this article or download audio file.
Monday, June 11, 2007
For the past 20 years, my company, Jupiter Wreck Inc., has been investigating what is Palm Beach County's earliest recorded maritime event, a ship laden with treasures that met with its end in 1660. We secured our rights in federal courts to this historic shipwreck and, since 1991, have been working with the Division of Historical Resources and other state and federal agencies to solve the enigma of where the main cultural deposit of the shipwreck is. It is a requirement for us to apply for and attain dredge-and-fill permits so we may dig holes to search for these significant cultural remains.
A byproduct of digging a hole is the material that was in the hole. This site is just 300 feet south of Jupiter's Inlet. This material happens to be beach sand - quite a lot of it. During the past 20 years, we have excavated more than 5,000 holes within this area. We have found more than 15,000 artifacts to date, mostly coins; however, the main cultural deposit has eluded us. What we have found, however, is a major inventory (more than 300,000 cubic yards) of the highest-quality beach sand, and we have developed and permitted very efficient ways of moving this sand, which is a practical matter for us.
For years, my dream has been to take this sand and transport it to an upland area, where it vould be utilized for dune restoration and/or beach nourishment. This would turn the sand into the "treasure," as we can move it for a much lower cost than trucking or importing it from any significant distance. At the very same time, we will be uncovering a beautiful, original, on-shore hard bottom reef estuary structure and marine life habitat that inadvertently was buried during the 20th century because of a basic lack of understanding by government officials about how our shoreline process is suppose to work.
In a recent beach renourishment meeting at the Aquarius condo on Singer Island, which all the various regulatory agencies attended, I made the point very clear that we had dredge permits in hand and that, with only slight modification, could allow pumping the sand to a controlled, upland area where it could be de-watered and used as the county saw fit for dune restoration and/or beach nourishment. This is the sand that has just washed off the beach. Nobody listened. Want to know why? Because if we "laymen" happen to be right and can contribute to a better solution to beach restoration that can be compatible with major environmental issues, less tax money will be spent in the future by these same blind agencies who are shoveling against the tide at all of our expense.
Capt Dom
Jupiter
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Beach renourishment is a wasteful, costly subsidy
From time immemorial, the beaches of the planet have existed in one form or another. People with common sense understand that the forces of nature, ocean currents, waves and tides dictate how beaches evolve and move year in and year out. Any attempts by local, state and federal officials to dictate how and where beaches must exist is the costly work of fools - a learning exercise that most involved refuse to understand and a fact that calls into serious question the intelligence of beach renourishment advocates ("Work starts on beach restoration in county," May 30).
For all of those moaning, complaining beachfront property owners, here's a reality check. No one forced you to risk your physical and financial security by investing in ego enhancement property situated in harm's way, and nowhere is it written that the rest of America's taxpayers are obligated to finance survival as a result of your poor choice of location.
Unfortunately, a century of repeated experience with beach erosion has failed to convince government that permitting oceanfront development is a costly no-no, yet we keep electing fools who finance consultants who believe otherwise - for financial gain. Proof positive that the human race is the ultimate cancer on the planet.
VAL MARTIN
Port Salerno
