Grave Yard Of The Pacific

[spotz]

The Columbia river bar is one of the most deadly river bars in the world. The Oregon coast up to the Washington side of the river is refered to as the " GRAVE YARD OF THE PACIFIC " with something like 1400 or more lost ships there. I have only found one or two stories of treasure ships lost & one buried treasure in the area near Gold Beach. I swung my DFX over about 10 miles of surf line last August & all I found was some clad, one gold hat badge & two or three pieces of costume jewlery. Someone told me that it was because of the make up of the beach. Too much shifting sand & not enough rock shelf to capture anything. I am going to spend two weeks helping at NWCC camp for the deaf in July near the bar area & will have a lot of time to detect. Anyone have any better info or ideas? Spotz

 

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[spotz]

I"m begining to think that all of the coasties in Oregon who have metal detectors have this all figured out already & they just might not want to share any ideas. Spotz

 

[Noble Metal]

Get a scuba tank, a machine, and swim it

 

[chuckered]

Real good book about it. I have read it 4 times over 15 years, called Pacific Graveyard by James A. Gibbs, can find it at Amazon.com if interested.

 

[spotz]

Thanks! Gibbs wrote three books about it. I got them all from the state library last year. They were interesting but they didn't help too much with where or how of OR beach. Spotz