Old Shipwreck Found, where do I post a 'Go Fund Me' Link?

[Cap'n]

Hey all! So I found a very old wooden ship buried/sunken into the sand in Florida. Unfortunately I don't have an underwater camera so I couldn't take pics. I just created a Go Fund Me page to raise funds to get back out and get pictures of it etc. My idea is to get proof of its existence and then contact the State of Florida along with gathering underwater Archaeologists etc. to properly excavate the entire situation.
Any advice is greatly appreciate and I'll post the link to the GFM page below. I

 

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[alloy_II]

Hey all! So I found a very old wooden ship buried/sunken into the sand in Florida. Unfortunately I don't have an underwater camera so I couldn't take pics. I just created a Go Fund Me page to raise funds to get back out and get pictures of it etc. My idea is to get proof of its existence and then contact the State of Florida along with gathering underwater Archaeologists etc. to properly excavate the entire situation.
Any advice is greatly appreciate and I'll post the link to the GFM page below.

With all them beams running parallel to one another sounds like you've discovered an old gravel barge or garbage scow.

Ships only use a single beam for the keel.

 

[Cap'n]

Maybe I didn't describe it as well as I could have. Imagine a large beam laying left to right and then maybe 8-10 feet forward of that another beam parallel. Another distance ahead of that another beam/large plank laying the same way. Then connecting to it was a longer piece of wood, possibly the "side" of the ship. In between these 8-10 foot gaps are sand as the wreck is just peaking out of the seafloor. Then randomly throughout this footprint of a ship are other sections of wood in between the dusting of sand.

I'm picturing it as something ran aground in the shallows and couldn't get off the sand. With time it sank into the sand and the upper decks rotted away. Now only some undetermined portion of sections possibly all of which were below the water line are what are left and are at level with the seafloor, which is why they haven't rotted away. Thus the keel itself would be beneath all of this as the parallel "beams/planks" are latitudinal "stringers" or some structural part of the ships bones.

Additionally there are very large biological growths/coral present that suggest this has been in place for hundreds of years. In the middle of this "ship footprint" are coral that grew up through it or it ran into this piece of coral and sank around it? Likely before the developmental presence of any sort of barge in this area of Florida. For size comparison, the picture you posted above would be a "lifeboat" compared to this large ship

 

[Tnmountains]

You may not solicit funds here. You can purchase a used water proof under water GOPRO for under a hundred bucks if you were serious.