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2 more anchors to ad to the list

2 more anchors to ad to the list, these seem to be twins :)

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another good exploration session, finally found the 4 Punta Goleta cannons and the anchor was about 2oom up wind (east from it). This wreck must of been visible for many years the whole downwind area is only 2 to 3m deep with no way out and 150m from shore. I suspect the Punta Goleta name comes from this wreck.



 

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Cabarete bay was clear again and I got some better video. I start to believe that several of the sites all belong to the same ship, I suspect a mail steamer from around 1850 >1900...
Sadly our local fishermen have plundered truckloads of brass and copper sheeting from it, only the heavy stuff is still around.
heer is a clip of one site nr 3. (building an interactive video map of it)

 

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found a bunch of carbon under ballast stones of one of the wrecks here in the bay, I suspect it to be from the kitchen because of all the ceramics and pottery that lay nearby or the ship was on fire when it went down... will be looking at the back of the pile for sings of carbon, if carbon is all over the place then it was burning, which means there is a possibility of a second ship ....

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First batch of looters arrived in their Jeepetas,... They offered 60K Dominican pesos to one of our local fishermen to remove 2 cannons and an anchor from one of the sites.
out local guy worked 2 full days to get them to the beach and an afternoon to get them on their trucks.
This was done on a Sunday afternoon on our busy beach and was live on our local FB page as tourists posted images.
Next morning I get a call that I was to be interrogated :icon_scratch:...
Told them that they better investigate because I have no clue ..:icon_scratch:

Bottom line, our local fisherman was crying because he worked a whole week for nothing, officials and helpers took most of the money, he got arrested and interrogated and by monday the Governor ordered the return of the cannons...

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And this thread ends with a couple of lessons learned :(,..
but with a new virgin wreck, current count is over 20 cannons in 35M water about a mile of shore, well out of reach of our local compressor divers :))....
 

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And this thread ends with a couple of lessons learned :(,..
but with a new virgin wreck, current count is over 20 cannons in 35M water about a mile of shore, well out of reach of our local compressor divers :))....

EricH any video of her?
 

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and it continues, stormy winter weather uncovered an other wreck site in Cabarete bay, I ran in to it by accident.

lots of red bricks with a Spanish cross stamped in the middle, and bronze bars and copper nails, going back soon :), wooden beams etc.. hope it stays visible for a while to investigate.


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