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You could also call that Raider’s Theory.......at

least in part. He can speak to that, I won’t attempt to speak for him. This just reminds me of what he has repeatedly stated.

Do you know how deep the water gets at Melbourne 3 miles out? It’s no more than 60’ deep.

If wrecks were salvaged after the storm, and the “shipwreck site” is supposedly only 1200 feet offshore, why has nothing more substantial been found linking it to the Concepcion?

I thought Tinkerbell 2.0 could see all beneath the sea floor.

From Dr. Baer’s report;

It is known from witness information gleaned from the archives that after the storm individual vessels were visible — lying in various stages of destruction in the near- shore area; in water that was shallow enough for salvage to begin almost immediately. Over time these wooden shipwreck sites were reduced to ballast piles, through the combined action of wind and waves, and the scrambling process became accelerated. The ‘scrambling process’ in the Muckelroy wrecking model means that the artifacts have been extracted from the shipwreck and are lying on the sea-floor or have floated away – extending the site.

The Muckelroy Model and the Melbourne Beach Site

The question now needs to be asked – how does the Melbourne Beach site conform to the 1715 shipwreck model? The Melbourne Beach site is a strewn area of both large and small shipwreck artifacts, anchors, cannon, wood material and coins scattered over limestone hard bottom and open areas of sand from varying points offshore to the present unstable and eroding shoreline.

At this point in the investigation, the area that lies approximately 1,200 feet offshore of Melbourne beach demonstrates an ‘artifact strewn field’ similar to a 1715 shipwreck site. The largest artifact located to date in this area is the nine-pounder iron cannon. In the Muckelroy Model the cannon arrived on site either within the extraction process by being jettisoned or arrived via being transported on a portion of the wrecked vessel, i.e., on the gun deck that sank to the bottom. When the wooden shipwreck material sank and deteriorated, the cannon remained in situ (in its original place). As stated earlier, it appears that some hull material is present on site as is possibly some of the ship’s rail material (figure 15). The Monteros Platter and the Ramirez Pistol were likely being transported in the sterncastle or cabin of one of the elite passengers (de los Monteros). The fact that the valuable platters and the pistol were recovered at the site indicates strongly that more valuable artifacts will eventually be located and excavated at Melbourne Beach.