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Glad time flies cause it's 3 or 4 months from dive season with possible bonus days between the two sites..
Hang tight and let's hope they hit pay dirt.
Need to come out of the dark for a major move.
I'm surprised this stock has stayed sideways after the rise. Seldom is the case but more time is needed to figure the next move. I'll continue to monitor.
That's why I held a few panz.
Not sure how you call making x7 flipping but i'll take it. Held a few for fun though.
Not yet but hoping they find treasure, historically valuable artifacts or anything else they can do to make the stock price rise. That's what myself as an investor hopes for.
If anyone can get the needed permits KK can. Let's hope for a great new year!
Thanks PWP I've been trading this for over 4 years successfully and have a good handle on it and agree with your advice.
You have to admit Stev has been a good trader? Even last year it rose...
When they partnered with deep blue is what tipped me to buy.
Good luck!
I am glad I waited to add from when this was originally touted lol. Let's see how much they can bring up.
$EXPL$
This is great news! I haven't sold yet and am considering this a major hold for now.
"In the mean time I will take more shares in the trips until this pops and rewards all the shareholders.
Have A Happy Holiday and may we Have the great year we are waiting for next year from SFRX."
I agree Gman, I think you can make good money again if you added in mid upper trips and if valuables are found at Juno or the main site it could be quite the payday here. A lot of chatter about the company this the company that but I'm just concerned about making money on this stock and holding a decent amount in case they find valuables.
Happy Holidays folks.
$SFRX$
I'm kind of glad they aren't. I'm thinking there will be more good buying opportunities this winter.
I agree and hope the water visibility isn't to bad so they can see. I'd bet they've been diving. They said they would be on good days in one of their latest posts.
Forecast as of 3:43 am EST on December 17, 2017
Volusia-Brevard County Line To Sebastian Inlet 0-20 Nm-
Today
East winds 5 to 10 knots becoming southeast in the afternoon. Seas 2 feet with a dominant period 10 seconds. A light chop on the intracoastal waters.
Tonight
Southeast winds 5 knots. Seas 2 feet with a dominant period 9 seconds. Smooth on the intracoastal waters.
Monday
Southeast winds 5 knots. Seas 2 feet with a dominant period 9 seconds. Smooth on the intracoastal waters.
Monday Night
Southeast winds 5 to 10 knots becoming south after midnight. Seas 2 feet. Mostly smooth on the intracoastal waters.
Tuesday
Southwest winds 5 knots becoming southeast in the afternoon. Seas 1 to 2 feet. Smooth on the intracoastal waters.
Tuesday Night
Southeast winds 5 to 10 knots becoming south after midnight. Seas 2 feet.
Wednesday
Southwest winds 5 to 10 knots increasing to 10 to 15 knots in the afternoon. Seas 2 feet.
Wednesday Night
Southwest winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet.
Thursday
West winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 1 to 2 feet. Slight chance of showers.
Forecast as of 3:22 am EST on December 15, 2017
Volusia-Brevard County Line To Sebastian Inlet 0-20 Nm-
Today
Southwest winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet with a dominant period 10 seconds. A light chop on the intracoastal waters.
Tonight
West winds 5 to 10 knots becoming north 10 to 15 knots after midnight. Seas 2 to 3 feet with a dominant period 10 seconds. A light chop on the intracoastal waters.
Saturday
Northeast winds 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet with a dominant period 10 seconds. A light chop on the intracoastal waters.
Saturday Night
East winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet. Mostly smooth on the intracoastal waters.
Sunday
Southeast winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet. A light chop on the intracoastal waters.
Sunday Night
Southeast winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet.
Monday
Southeast winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet.
Monday Night
South winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet.
Tuesday
Southwest winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 2 feet.
Small Craft Advisory in effect until 4 am EST Wednesday
Volusia-Brevard County Line To Sebastian Inlet 0-20 Nm-
Tonight
Northwest winds 20 knots. Seas 3 to 5 feet with a dominant period 6 seconds. Rough on the intracoastal waters.
Wednesday
Northwest winds 10 to 15 knots diminishing to 5 to 10 knots in the afternoon. Seas 3 to 5 feet with a dominant period 8 seconds. A moderate chop on the intracoastal waters.
Wednesday Night
West winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet with a dominant period 7 seconds. A light chop on the intracoastal waters.
Thursday
Southwest winds 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet. A light chop on the intracoastal waters.
Thursday Night
Southwest winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet. A light chop on the intracoastal waters. Slight chance of showers.
Friday
Southwest winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet. A moderate chop on the intracoastal waters. Chance of showers.
Friday Night
West winds 10 knots becoming northwest after midnight. Seas 1 to 2 feet. Slight chance of showers.
Saturday
North winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet.
Saturday Night
East winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet.
Sunday
Southeast winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet.
Looks like there's a few windows to dive this week.
Since it is Thanksgiving i'll share a great story about one of our archeologist! Feel good read.
http://www.1715fleetsociety.com/treasure-rediscovered/
What info? Do share.
besides what you already posted
What did your question marks mean?
"Gotta love these prices. Bought more!
Indeed picked up another 500,000 shares at .001.
Can't help but to make some money on that one....sometime in the next few months...and save some as well for a potential bigger payoff later.
RAH SFRX"
Loved the spike that started last February. That was an easy triple your money and save a few for the potential big payoff!
"As to Judd Laird, its said he was found dead floating in the back of his house, having supposedly died of a heart attack????"
Why the question marks? You don't think it was a heart attack?
Posted on August 31, 2016 by Ellsworth Boyd
Is the Juno Beach wreck the "last galleon"?
Is the Juno Beach wreck the “last galleon”?
When Nelson Waite, a commercial diver searching for fish and lobsters off Juno Beach, Florida, discovered what was later identified as one of the oldest Spanish wrecks in our waters, he wasn’t too impressed. In fact, he thought the artifact—an anchor with a 12-foot shank and large flukes—was from a relatively recent vessel. It appeared too elongated and wasn’t extremely covered with marine growth. He gave it one more glance as he glided by on his diver propulsion vehicle, then left and never thought about it until 10 years later.
In 1987, Waite read about the San Miguel de Arcangel, a Spanish treasure ship sunk in 1660 that was found by Jupiter Beach lifeguard Peter Leo while snorkeling during his lunch break. The 10 to 15-foot-deep shallow water discovery was just one mile north of Waite’s 80-foot-deep find, prompting him to return for a closer look. “I didn’t have the luxury of a lot of bottom time like Leo did on the Jupiter wreck,” Waite said, “but it was worth a try when I uncovered pottery shards, ballast rocks, lead sheathing and a large wooden beam similar to those on old Spanish ships.”
Juno Beach Wreck Anchor
Juno Beach Wreck Anchor
The Cleveland, Ohio, native who settled in Florida in 1970, wasted no time telling a friend, Judd Laird, who had the time and money to proceed with the next step. Laird contacted two widely acclaimed maritime authorities: the late Peter Throckmorton—designated “dean of underwater archaeology”—and Duncan Mathewson—the archaeologist who helped find the late Mel Fisher’s treasure galleon, Nuestra Senora de Atocha. Upon examination of the site and artifacts, the experts determined it was from the late 1500s, one of the oldest Spanish wrecks in the western Hemisphere.
Laird called it “the last galleon” when he submitted the claim in his name. Historically, it was the last federal Admiralty claim of a Spanish vessel just before passage of the Abandoned Shipwreck Act (ASA) which gives states all rights to shipwreck salvage within three miles of their shorelines. Admiralty law, sometimes referred to as federal maritime law, favors salvors by giving them more control over their discoveries without the bullying they claim to get from state officials under the ASA. Most salvors scorned the Act from the get-go when it was passed. (See “Federal Versus State Law in Maritime Cases,” Pacific Maritime Magazine, September, 2010). Although the state must adhere to federal guidelines, it still receives 20 per cent of any valued artifacts and remains responsible for issuing the search permit. In essence, it boils down to concurrent federal/state jurisdiction over the search site.
Archaeologist Duncan Mathewson (right) poses with Mel Fisher who holds treasure from Atocha. Mathewson surveyed the Juno Beach wreck site.
Archaeologist Duncan Mathewson (right) poses with Mel Fisher who holds treasure from Atocha. Mathewson surveyed the Juno Beach wreck site.
Laird named his company TULCO after the ancient capital of the Aztecs. With Waite, he opened JESCO: Juno Educational Shipwreck Conservation Organization, a working lab and small museum in Jupiter. Shea McLean, an archaeologist from Florida State University, who helped in the preservation lab said,” The cooperation between the salvors and the state was outstanding and served as an example for others to follow.” He praised archaeology interns who pieced together hundreds of shards from olive jars.
As time passed, Laird couldn’t afford to continue running JESCO and donated everything to various state museums. Years slipped by until he ran into Kyle Kennedy, CEO of Seafarers Exploration Corp., a salvage firm based in Tampa, Florida. For more than 20 years, Kennedy conducted business through companies that offered securities’ sales, trading and investment banking services. In 2008, he decided to try his luck in search of treasure. He had money to invest and Laird and his last galleon appeared workable. Waite dropped out and Laird joined Kennedy’s Seafarers group, a short-lived union that ended up in court. Seafarers sub-contracted the site from TULCO and Kennedy got the salvage permit from the state of Florida which was good for three years. Laird was displeased with the transaction and fought it, but unfortunately couldn’t follow through. He died in 2013.
Juno Beach Wreck Anchor
Juno Beach Wreck Anchor
At this point, almost 30 years had passed since the discovery of the last galleon, now known as the Juno Beach wreck. Why couldn’t it resurface? (pun intended). In a frustrating attempt to find the answer, this writer spent a week trying to get through to somebody in the state’s archaeology department, Division of Historical Resources, Tallahassee, Florida. Finally, a call from Dr. Mary Glowacki, Bureau of Archaeological Research, disclosed that the permit had expired due to no activity in the area and everything “was now under state stewardship and inactive Admiralty arrest.”
“Not so!” exclaimed Kennedy who responded immediately to my call. “We were magging (metal detecting) it less than a year ago. The state permit expired, but we paid $3,500 to a U.S. Marshal to arrest the site to us in the Admiralty claim.” He says Seafarers was awarded the entire site by a federal judge, but the state was slow to recognize this and put it in their appropriate legal terminology.” Kennedy added, “We follow proper principles and guidelines and have a team of experienced archaeologists working with us.” He likes to call his claim “a lottery ticket that never runs out.”
As the bureaucratic battle continues over jurisdiction, the Juno Beach wreck remains somewhere offshore buried in the sand. Or does it? The debris field hasn’t revealed any significant finds…no cannons, no treasure so far. But two ships of the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet, possibly sunk in the area, have never been found. Is the Juno Beach wreck lost forever or will it ascend from its grave like the mythical Phoenix rose from its ashes?
Maybe sfrx will find this little statue?
West Palm treasure hunter continues search for fabled gold Madonna statue
June 6, 2012|By Alexia Campbell, Sun Sentinel
West Palm Beach treasure hunter Bob Bouchlas has spent decades searching for a piece of sunken treasure: a gold Madonna and Child statue listed aboard a Spanish galleon that sank in the 1656 near the Bahamas.
The statue was never found among the later recovered loot of gold, silver and jewels.
Bouchlas, 80, says the elusive statue may be buried off the coast of Palm Beach County, and is seeking the rights to salvage the wreckage of a what he believes is the San Miguel Arcangel. The Spanish ship went down near what is now Palm Beach County around the same time as the legendary Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas galleon, which sank near the Bahamas with a cargo of gold and gems partly salvaged in the 70s and 80s.
On Friday, Bouchlas filed a claim in federal court in West Palm Beach seeking the exclusive rights to explore an area off the coast of Juno Beach under federal admiralty laws.
His claim is the latest in a dispute among treasure hunters who want the right to look off the coast of Palm Beach County for untold riches.
"I'm not after the silver and gold, I want the Madonna," said Bouchlas, who said he is also an ordained priest in a little-known Ukrainian National Orthodox Christian church. He said the 3-foot statue should go to the Vatican.
I haven't heard where the location is exactly where they're sinking this sub off Juno beach.
Posted: 5:43 p.m. Friday, January 20, 2017
JUNO BEACH —
Palm Beach County agreed this month to pay $1 million toward the sinking of a Cold War-era sub off Juno Beach.
But another ship’s already there.
Or, at least, around the spot where the USS Clamagore would be sunk as Florida’s only submarine artificial reef if the private firm handling it can raise another $3 million. The 320-foot “Gray Ghost of the Florida Coast,” could be dropped perhaps as early as this summer as the newest addition to the county’s renowned 150-plus piece artificial reef program.
Tampa-based Seafarer Explorations says it has found debris from a Spanish galleon that went down in the 16th century and left treasure that could be worth billions.
When Seafarer CEO Kyle Kennedy read news reports saying the Clamagore’s resting place would be in 90 feet of water, about 1-1/2 miles off the Juno Beach Fishing Pier, that sure sounded like it would be in the 7-square-mile area, from about a half-mile northeast of the Juno Beach Pier to about 2-1/2 miles south, where courts have granted him rights to the ocean floor.
Not so, says Dan Bates, deputy director of the county’s Department of Environmental Resources Management.
“It may be that we’re adjacent to each other,” Bates said Friday. He said his site is on state lands and the county already has a permit to drop a reef there.
“We’ve had that for a long time. It’s one of our longest permanent sites,” he said.
“Then it must be a slightly different location,” Kennedy said Friday on hearing Bates’ comments. But he said he still worries about being too close to the sub.
“If it’s outside my area there’s nothing I can do about it.,” Kennedy said. But, he said, “when you have a lot of divers, they start looting that stuff.”
Kennedy said he’s not worried about losing any treasures, which would be buried under up to 23 feet of shifting sand. But he said other items that have just historic value — no less priceless— could end up on someone’s living room shelf.
“There’s plenty of room in the ocean,” Kennedy said Friday. “We just want to protect what we have.”
Kennedy first heard of his shipwreck’s possible existence from an amateur diver several years ago. He and the diver eventually split and Kennedy, in court, won full rights to whatever is found there now and in the future. Treasure salvagers are monitored by the state Bureau of Archaeology, which gets 20 percent of the value of the treasure, including its pick of the most archaeologically valuable finds.
Kennedy said he’s spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in research, including trips to Seville to view the archives of Spain’s American colonies. Also: visits to France and seven trips to Cuba. He still can’t find anything that would show the ship’s name, travel time, route, crew, or cargo. But, he said, “there’s absolutely a ship that sank there.”
He’s confident it’s there, and it’s Spanish, and from the 1550s to 1570s, and that the ship anchored during a storm and then was dragged toward shore and eventually sank.
That’s because the anchor’s still there, the cannonballs are linked to a specific period and Seafarer has found 1,000 items whose era can be determined.
“Nails, barrel rings, pottery, cannon balls, musket balls, lead sheeting, (and) serpentine jade,” a type of stone used for ballast, Kennedy said.
But he’s also found pieces of what he said is priceless Ming-era china. And he believes he eventually will find gold, silver, emeralds, and perhaps more.
He said he showed what he had to the Mel Fisher salvage group, and was told whatever’s there potentially is worth $4 billion to $5 billion,”because of the size of the ship and the age of the ship and what ships of those era carried.”
Kennedy said he has years ahead of him before he realizes his dream. He said current scanners have found scores of iron items but any gold or silver can’t be spotted that far down. He said he hopes future technology will change that. He also said he doesn’t believe anyone else has recovered any of whatever’s buried way beneath the ocean floor; “if someone found something, they’d have said something.”
"Sorry to bust your bubble"
You didn't lol. Maybe they will find more silver coins. Did any of the groups your talking about find any at juno? If so post a link please.
Rachel Murrell, a diving archaeologist for Seafarer who found three of the silver coins, said, "Since receiving our salvage permit, we've approached the site from a different angle with different salvage techniques and it is beginning to pay off. We have been able to overcome obstacles and have discovered some incredible artifacts including several coins and coin pieces. I am excited to see what else our salvage site will yield in the future."
John Fitzgerald, the lead archaeologist for Seafarer, noted, "After the appropriate conservation and cleaning procedures were completed, it was determined the first silver coin found (artifact #00216) is part of a silver coin minted in Mexico between the years of 1572 and 1733. The only markings visible on the obverse side of this coin are the upper portion of the shield with the left upper box containing a castle. This castle represents the province of Castile in Spain and, along with the lion that would normally be to the right of the castle, represents the province of Leon, Spain. Together they symbolize the two provinces joining to become a united Spain. All of the Spanish Coats of Arms used as shields on the obverse side of Spanish coins, known as 'cobs,' from the year 1556 to 1746 have the castle in the upper right corner."
Fitzgerald continued, "On the reverse side of the coin one can just make out a portion of a Florenzada cross. This type of cross was only used by the Mexico mint on silver coins between 1572 and 1733. The Cruz Florenzada or 'Flowered Cross' can be identified by the ball at the pinnacle of the arms of the cross."
Some info on Juno for any new shareholders that may not be aware.
TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Seafarer Exploration Corp. (OTCQB:SFRX) ), a company focused on the archaeologically-sensitive exploration, research, and recovery of historic shipwrecks, announced today that the Board of Trustees of the State of Florida has granted them a 5 year Sovereignty Submerged Lands Cultural Resource Recovery Easement for excavation of a shipwreck site located off of Juno Beach, FL. This important announcement completes the fourth and final requirement for Seafarer to continue its testing, exploration, and recovery work of the very promising shipwreck excavation at the Juno Beach site.
"I want to start by expressing my sincere gratitude to Ms. Sue Jones and others at the Bureau of Public Land Administration for their diligent and prompt delivery of the easement instrument," said Kyle Kennedy, CEO of Seafarer. "We are very encouraged by some of the materials we uncovered from the Juno Beach Site last week including some jade, ballast stones, musket balls and cannon balls. With the state's help, we also continue to pursue our permit for another site located along the coast of Florida and we continue to research and target site number 4."
Mr. Kyle Kennedy, expressed, "We feel very
honored to have such a highly regarded marine archeologist join our team.
His insight and experience should prove invaluable as we move forward on
our first project."
The Company is pleased to release the following list of artifacts from
the Company's shipwreck site: (all dates are A.D.):
1. Shard of Ming Dynasty China (circa 1640 or earlier)
2. Middle Style Spanish Pottery, known as "Olive Jar" (circa 1580-1680)
3. Three different calibers of Cannon balls (4 lbs., 8 lbs., 12 lbs.)
4. Stone Cannon balls, often found on earlier Spanish Galleons (circa 16th
and early 17th centuries)
5. Large iron Spanish Galleon style anchor (circa 16th to 18th century)
6. Large iron fasteners, through holes. These are identical to what was
found on the Atocha wreck of 1622.
7. Lead sheeting, protecting hulls from wood boring organisms. Lead
sheeting is typically Spanish in technique. (circa 16th to 18th
century)
8. Round iron lock (for a chest or vault), which was identical to examples
found on the Atocha wreck of 1622.
Seafarer marine archaeologist, Mr. Jim Sinclair, commented, "The Juno
Beach shipwreck site is very exciting and promising, in that artifacts
recovered to date point to a Spanish shipwreck of the late 16th or early
17th century. The shard of Ming Dynasty China indicates contact and trade
with Manila Galleon vessels, which were bringing the treasures of Asia back
to Mexico and then on to Spain via the New Spain Fleet. The area is
directly adjacent to the main shipping route of Spanish vessels carrying
New World treasures back to Spain. Over the next 90 days of exploration, it
would be particularly encouraging to find artifacts of historic and
intrinsic value such as coinage or other forms of precious metal. We will
be working to identify the origin and possible identity of this vessel."
Wonderful news! Seems to me the water was a little calmer for juno during the winter or it could have just been that particular winter.
Agree for the company but there will still be enough room for profitable trades...
I wouldn't worry about Juno from what I remember the coins found were in really bad shape and held no value so there was nothing to report or divide..its been a while since I studied Juno but remember that part. Even though someone is trying to make a big deal out of it again and again and again the reason it wasn't divided was simple.
You should know that from ovation...it was driven down over time
It's pretty common here in the micro caps lol this isn't KO or GIS....
capted first off i hope you are well.
Any thoughts here? Been 180 days of diving since this excellent post you made summarizing your thoughts.
Again hope you are well.
Sincerely
Hot Spurs
Shit that is sad about the turtles but I bet there are no major problems long term. You're a good dude jrf for being concerned but if they made it through the 1715 hurricane as well as many more they'll be fine imo it's a cruel world sometimes.
I'm also aware of the coins you reference and believe the wreck site will eventually give many more up. More people besides our archeologist have found them. Thanks for the report and giving a shit.
Thanks for the update! It's my understanding that the more beach erosion the better as far as finding older things but hey sounded fun. Sand can cover up the past but it can be exposed from hurricanes as we all know. I'll give it a try if Jose churns it up. Need to visit fam on merit island anyway. Any luck today?
Can't argue with either of those statements. Hope it changes but it looks like Irma could be a problem or a helping hand?
It would seem the company could be onto something big with the latest finds. I can't wait until the announce what they've found. What's interesting to me is that roughly 20% of the total treasure on these ships were in the form of contraband hidden all around the ships so if you had a 550 million $ wreck on average they would contain a 110 million $'s worth of gold or silver, That's a lot of money that could be on any part of the ship. I hope some of that contraband is in the area.
Well my 20% guess was close. And the price of gold and silver has gone up dramatically since this was written.
"Salvage efforts on the wrecks began immediately and by the end of December the officials in charge of the operation reported they had already recovered all the King’s treasure and the major part of that belonging to private individuals, totaling 5,200,000 pesos. The following spring they recovered an additional small amount, so that by July the Spaniards called a halt to their salvage efforts. When the Spaniards stopped their salvage work, a total of 1,244,900 pesos of registered treasure remained. Add an estimated 19% contraband, and we believe 2,200,000 pesos remain. Using a conservative sale price of $250 per coin, we feel over 550 million dollars of treasure remains to be recovered. Gold, which in terms of weight was sixteen times more valuable than silver, was the most common item smuggled back to Spain, and since there were almost no gold coins registered aboard the ships, those recovered in recent years from the wrecks must have been contraband. This is substantiated by the fact that most of the gold disks recovered lacked the required markings of registered gold bars. It is more than likely that a substantial amount was being smuggled in this convoy."
said, "Since receiving our salvage permit, we've approached the site from a different angle with different salvage techniques and it is beginning to pay off. We have been able to overcome obstacles and have discovered some incredible artifacts including several coins and coin pieces. I am excited to see what else our salvage site will yield in the future."
John Fitzgerald, the lead archaeologist for Seafarer, noted, "After the appropriate conservation and cleaning procedures were completed, it was determined the first silver coin found (artifact #00216) is part of a silver coin minted in Mexico between the years of 1572 and 1733. The only markings visible on the obverse side of this coin are the upper portion of the shield with the left upper box containing a castle. This castle represents the province of Castile in Spain and, along with the lion that would normally be to the right of the castle, represents the province of Leon, Spain. Together they symbolize the two provinces joining to become a united Spain. All of the Spanish Coats of Arms used as shields on the obverse side of Spanish coins, known as 'cobs,' from the year 1556 to 1746 have the castle in the upper right corner."
I guess you and smallcaps think the archeologists and divers quoted are also in on this supposed conspiracy theory? Lmao......
It would give credibility to your opinions on SFRX. Nobody really knows if your credible.
By the way I'm an astronaut lol.