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Good evening Ladies and gentlemen,
I am going to try and do my introduction and plea for help in one post. I am a diver in South Carolina averaging 60-100 dives a year I do black water diving for fossils and the megalodon teeth I also do a lot of Spearfishing. I have however come across something so odd and rare it has taken me a month just to get a decisive answer of what the heck it is.
After Hurricane Irma blew through I was walking the beach covered in huge sea shells and found a 125 Quart Yeti Cooler and a 135 pound chunk of Rosin. The Yeti was exciting enough until I found the heavy mass that looked like a fossilized sea turtle. I dragged the mass home cleaned it up and was left with something I thought was Amber. I pain an "expert" in Savannah $100 who told me it was Copal. Not millions of dollars but still $10K+ I still needed scientific proof though so I mailed a small piece of it to Poland where it was tested and they told me it was just Rosin and didn't even bother to bill me for the information.
Now I am left with a 32" long 24" wide and 10" thick piece of Rosin in my dining room and i'm wondering if I should just toss the thing.
It has obviously spent a good amount of time in the ocean. The Runa shipwreck off of Wilmington is not far from me and the Savannah harbor was a huge exporter of the stuff a century ago. So it could be form either. So please tell me do I have something or did I waste $50 building a crate to cary it in plus the $100 to the "expert" in Savannah.
I am going to try and do my introduction and plea for help in one post. I am a diver in South Carolina averaging 60-100 dives a year I do black water diving for fossils and the megalodon teeth I also do a lot of Spearfishing. I have however come across something so odd and rare it has taken me a month just to get a decisive answer of what the heck it is.
After Hurricane Irma blew through I was walking the beach covered in huge sea shells and found a 125 Quart Yeti Cooler and a 135 pound chunk of Rosin. The Yeti was exciting enough until I found the heavy mass that looked like a fossilized sea turtle. I dragged the mass home cleaned it up and was left with something I thought was Amber. I pain an "expert" in Savannah $100 who told me it was Copal. Not millions of dollars but still $10K+ I still needed scientific proof though so I mailed a small piece of it to Poland where it was tested and they told me it was just Rosin and didn't even bother to bill me for the information.
Now I am left with a 32" long 24" wide and 10" thick piece of Rosin in my dining room and i'm wondering if I should just toss the thing.
It has obviously spent a good amount of time in the ocean. The Runa shipwreck off of Wilmington is not far from me and the Savannah harbor was a huge exporter of the stuff a century ago. So it could be form either. So please tell me do I have something or did I waste $50 building a crate to cary it in plus the $100 to the "expert" in Savannah.
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