Treasure teeth Venice Beach Fl

[G.I.B.]

My wife and I did a little beach diving this weekend at a really great little beach we found in Venice Fl. The city park has a great place to park, enter the water, and rinse off after the dive. There were lots of other divers there going after sharks teeth, which I found out, have some value.

We didn't find any of the 'Mega' teeth, but had a load of fun with the little ones, which can be worth $5 a piece. So, I suppose it's a bit of treasure, just lying there.

The next time down I'm going to poke about with the Sand Shark while she digs teeth.

It was a great time. If anyone ever wants to dive it with us, just give me a shout and I'll be happy to either give you specific directions, or take you there one day.

HH

 

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[ScrewcapRoy]

Awesome pictures and great collection of shark teeth. I noticed the RV ruler, do you own an RV or live in an RV community. I purchased an RV lot in Naples Fl a couple years ago. Plan on retiring down there.
HH Roy

 

[vic910]

Love the pic of the fish!!!

vicki

 

[G.I.B.]

It's as grand life...

We live between the boat (pictured on the left, a 40' Endeavour) and a 35' 5th wheel RV. Got rid of kids, sold house, and became completely mobile.

We decided to quit mowing the lawn to impress the neighbors and start sucking more compressed air, sailing, and driving an RV slow in the left lane

 

[godisnum1]

What part of Venice Beach were you on? I used to go by Sharky's Pier and find tons of small teeth... but they renovated the beach and poured in so much sand, all the teeth are now covered over pretty well. I heard down at the end of the beach there "should" be a ton of them there still. I didn't get to check last time...

Also, how far out in the water were you? My brother & I used to just use plastic spaghetti strainers to sift for them from the sand we scooped up under the water. Anyway, great pic's!

Bran <><

 

[DETREASUREHNTR]

Great pics and post! Thats what I want to do someday

 

[G.I.B.]

The beach we dive is Service Club Park located on the west side of Venice airport. We swim out 500 feet or so and go down, about 20 feet. My tank, a steel 100, lasted 2 hours. I'll swim out N/W for a while and at about 1200 pounds I'll start working my way back S/E towards shore.

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There are other beaches in the area we have yet to explore and dive. There always seem to be several boats anchored off shore, 1-2 miles, flying dive flags. I'm going to issue a directive to the Admiral to set sail. I hear the bigger teeth are a bit further out.

 

[JoeSWFla]

Hey GIB ,What a life.I'm envious. Would love to get up to Venice some time to
hunt teeth. Looks like a lot of fun.Hope to do it soon. HH Joe

 

[FLauthor]

There is a fellow I know who would kayak out one mile off Shark Beach, anchor and dive down to 30 feet and pull out lots of Mega-Shark teeth. I've seen his collection and he has hundreds of teeth, some as big as a Man's hand, many that fit in the palm of your hand and are suitable as necklaces of which he has mason jars full to the brim. He always dove alone which isn't a good practice but I guess he had a secret area that he didn't want anyone else to know about.

 

[deepsix47]

Nice collection and great pics. If you enter the water on the north side of Sharkeys, go out about 100 yards and you'll find the first ledge. There is another one about 100 feet beyond the first (both mark ancient shore lines). You'll find plenty of Sharks teeth on both and after a good storm the big Megas show up. Have fun!!!!
Deepsix

 

[G.I.B.]

We have been back a couple of times since my first post. We have collected a 'Cool Whip' container full of the smaller teeth. Everything is less than two inches long. This last Sunday was a busy day at the beach. There was a local dive club of teenagers, about 20 of them in the water. Flags everywhere. We still managed to get a handful of teeth.

We did run into one guy diving that was near the pier. He said a 'large' Barracuda greeted him at the pier and kept following him until he went a lot further North. He said the 'cuda spooked him enough that he terminated the dive early.

I'm waiting for a storm to slosh around the sea floor so I can get me a mega tooth.

Thanks for all the info, we are enjoying the diving before it turns icy cold here (less than 80 degree water).

 

[LadyDigger]

It's as grand life...

We live between the boat (pictured on the left, a 40' Endeavour) and a 35' 5th wheel RV. Got rid of kids, sold house, and became completely mobile.

We decided to quit mowing the lawn to impress the neighbors and start sucking more compressed air, sailing, and driving an RV slow in the left lane 

That's the life I'm talking about....you are so lucky...only 7 more years and we will be free of kids!!! But we will be in our late 50's...but that's ok....still lots of life left in us!!!

Hubby loves to dive...that would be his dream retirement. I can't dive (heart condition )...but I can scoop up the sand in the water and see if I get lucky!!! I'm thinking of getting him an underwater detector this Christmas....(shhhhh be very very quiet about this...and block this post from him...he reads TN too! Ooops!)

I want an RV and travel and detect everywhere....I can't wait to grow up so I can do what ever I want!!!

Happy Diving, Happy Hunting and Happy Life,
Annmarie

 

[karib2517]

yep that kind of life waits for us in the future as well, cant wait,plan is to do the RV thing in the US and the sail boat and vacation home thing in the Caribbean.

 

[G.I.B.]

I think we found something to do with all the teeth. My wife is learning to make necklaces with them. Here are the first two experiments. She is wearing the third one. I'll get a better picture when she perfects the process.

It's only a guess at this point, but I would wager an educated guess at what everyone we know is getting for Christmas presents, or Birthdays this year.

 

[G.I.B.]

The finished product, I think it turned out pretty good.

 

[lowtones]

I saw on the travel channel 'Places to find treasure' they had a segment abut shark teeth somewhere in florida. They were in some canals . You are right they are worth money. I think they have blogs about it on their web site..
HH
lowtones

http://travel.discovery.com/tv/cash-treasures/wherenow/wherenow.html

 

[G.I.B.]

My local dive shop goes on fossil hunts on the Peace River (west central Florida) and they find lots of bones and things there. I do believe it is the same place your talking about. I've not been on one of the 'muddy' hunts yet, but that may be in my future.

 

[geckokid]

We have been back a couple of times since my first post. We have collected a 'Cool Whip' container full of the smaller teeth. Everything is less than two inches long. This last Sunday was a busy day at the beach. There was a local dive club of teenagers, about 20 of them in the water. Flags everywhere. We still managed to get a handful of teeth.

We did run into one guy diving that was near the pier. He said a 'large' Barracuda greeted him at the pier and kept following him until he went a lot further North. He said the 'cuda spooked him enough that he terminated the dive early.

I'm waiting for a storm to slosh around the sea floor so I can get me a mega tooth.

Thanks for all the info, we are enjoying the diving before it turns icy cold here (less than 80 degree water).

I have a 3.5 inch meg tooth!!!
got it near Boca Grande

 

[ESC]

Great pictures!!

I used to spend hours and hours there as a kid. My mom would drop me and my brother off in the morning and come back at sundown to pick us up. This was back in the late 70's before they were all picked over. I have several bags full that I found over the years.
I live in Arizona now but I take my kids back to visit grandma every year and they allways make me take them to Venice to find sharks teeth but they sure aren't as easy to find as they used to be.

 

[G.I.B.]

We have a small tropical system off of west Florida, maybe this is in the process of revealing some more teeth!

Were headed back to Venice Monday after the waters have had an opportunity to settle down a bit, and will see what new teeth are visible.

The below picture is of some small broken saw type teeth we found. Were still working on identification of what we have. There are 'before' and 'after' pic's. The little saw tooth turned out well.

May need to take our collection of teeth over to the Bahamas and sell them to the cruise ship tourists!