I just stumbled upon this article which really set me back a step. Could it be true? how could anyone steal 150 ton of live rock from the ocean floor. Or was it just covered by shifting sands from the storms the past couple summers.
anyone hear more about this ?
the sad thing is that although it will lose value, any company can grind it up and sell it as crushed coral or grind even further and make sand cough, carib naughtsea’s, cough
yes and if your too ignorant to get on your boat for one day and dive the site here and there then serves you right. can’t tell me that in 2 years he didnt have time to go and dive the site
heh, if i invested 100k and expected 1-2 million, i’d have cameras, and lo-jack on that rock
crack o’ da sea
I lean toward it got scattered or burried in the shifting sands. his site was only 4 miles out from his port, probably not straight outto sea. so if at an angle, it was less than 4 miles off shore. anyone living along there would notice a big boat or barge, hanging out at the same place day after day. thats a lot of work, even in only 20 feet of water. and 20 feet would get lots of turbulance from even small storms. I bet its still there.
ken, i guess no man HAS an island.
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I lean toward it got scattered or burried in the shifting sands. his site was only 4 miles out from his port, probably not straight outto sea. so if at an angle, it was less than 4 miles off shore. anyone living along there would notice a big boat or barge, hanging out at the same place day after day. thats a lot of work, even in only 20 feet of water. and 20 feet would get lots of turbulance from even small storms. I bet its still there. [/quote]
Ken that’s what my guess would be when I heard about this.
And that does suck that he lost it…but wouldn’t you keep an eye on your investment? DOH!
insurance ploy???
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insurance ploy???[/quote]
The article says he had not insured the rock. I thought the same thing at first also. In the last 2 years there has been a large amount of heavy hitting storms to hit the Florida coast. Its buried with Davy Jones’s Locker
Some of the other Rock farmers have had similar problems down there. their rock pile either sunk in soft sand, or was burried by drifting sand from storms or currents.
I would think that the first thing he would have done would have been to dig a foot or so in to the sand. That’s a lot of rock to be covered up without any trace.
well, it was only a 3 foot high pile. spread over a front yard sized space. setting it on half a foot of sand over hard bottom would soon make it a 2 1/2 foot high pile. not too hard to imagine a sand dune covering it.
Or currents moving the rock. Water is powerful
If that is the case this guy didn’t invest the research into his investment…oh well, time to rethink and maybe buy more rock.
So… just got back from vacation from Florida… found some dead rock on the side of the road near Disney, anyone interested??
just kidding…