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Post by loki258 on May 7, 2014 10:36:42 GMT -5
We go to one particular river in Beaufort SC. These are some I had lying around at my office on my desk. These are typical teeth, the long cylindrical piece is tusk, and the piece to the far right is a fish mouth pallet, one of the largest I have found as far as pallets go.
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Post by shadow on May 7, 2014 11:30:32 GMT -5
Nice, have you been down toward Edisto Island? That's where my family goes fossil diving during the summer.
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Post by indyme2 on May 7, 2014 12:43:51 GMT -5
If you like fossils, Loki, you need to visit me. I will start posting some pics soon. Here is the DVD cover of the first video I ever produced. Lots of fossils! My old buddy Rick and I also wrote a book called Bone Hunters. It's for sale at most rock, fossil and some dive stores.  The Edisto River is good for fossil diving too, shadow. The north and a certain location on the south side of Edisto Island often has good fossils for land lovers. |
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Post by cabarrusgold on May 7, 2014 16:25:40 GMT -5
Love Beaufort SC! Especially Sheldon Church and all the history. Good thing it was a federal hospital or they would have burned it like the British. The Spanish American War forts are cool too. The have a model of that one fort on Ladies Island at Paris Island Museum.
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Post by indyme2 on May 7, 2014 17:38:13 GMT -5
Love Beaufort, SC. You have to eat lunch at Sgt. White's if you haven't already done so. Ex-Marine Drill Sgt. who makes amazing home style food. Give it a try, cabarrusgold. You will leave with a smile on your face.
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Post by loki258 on May 7, 2014 19:09:26 GMT -5
Best BBQ in town!
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Post by loki258 on May 7, 2014 19:11:40 GMT -5
My father owns two properties on St. Helena Island, we usually go to the Sands at Port Royal and collect our teeth in low tide. Been going there since I was 4 and now 37 so I know the place pretty well.  |
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Post by Gold Seeker on May 9, 2014 5:24:55 GMT -5
I live in Bluffton, just south of Beaufort, we go to the sands in Port Royal all the time to collect teeth, when they first dredged the river and pumped all the spoils up on the beach they wouldn't let the general public go there, state geologist, etc. had first dibs and found 1000s of very large teeth and fossils, after they cleaned out all the best finds they opened the area to the public.
If any of you guys are down this way again give me a shout and I come join ya'll if I can get away from work at that time
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Post by loki258 on May 9, 2014 5:59:47 GMT -5
i'll be down in a couple weeks hopefully, ya the dredge also destroyed lots of big pieces as well that's why I have a ton a fragmented teeth and fossils...
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Post by cabarrusgold on May 9, 2014 7:21:35 GMT -5
Dredging that area? WOW... wonder if any Federal ordnance was still active. I'm sure they found some. I know a guy that would cruise around the mud flats around Ft. Fisher and dig out ordnance for his CW collection. Said you had to knock off the crusted areas. Geee... some of it still live. They fired thousands of shot at that fort and most was over shot in the river. He knew what he was doing disarming it, but I would never attempt that.
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Post by indyme2 on May 9, 2014 7:32:18 GMT -5
I have a dive buddy who lives in Bluffton, goldseeker. Don't tell anyone but he makes a good living scuba diving for teeth down there. It started as a hobby and now it's his full time job. He dives 12 months / year. I have found some great teeth and bottles diving your back yard. Lol.
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Post by Gold Seeker on May 9, 2014 13:25:19 GMT -5
I have known several guys that makes or has made a living here diving for teeth here, I have a large almost complete tooth (little chip at the top) packed away, I'll try to remember to dig it out and post a photo, now if I could only remember what box I put it in.  |
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Post by indyme2 on May 9, 2014 14:10:26 GMT -5
Cool. Show us the tooth, goldseeker. Where did you find it?
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Post by loki258 on May 9, 2014 15:14:26 GMT -5
You guys ever eat at the shrimp shack going into hunting and fripp islands? Their shrimp burgers are the chit....
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Post by Gold Seeker on May 9, 2014 15:29:10 GMT -5
I wish I had found it but I have never done scuba so I have never done any deep river diving for teeth and other relics, only hookah on my dredge, this tooth was found many years ago by one of the guy mentioned above, he found it and many, many more in the Broad river, he also dives all the tributaries in this area with similar results. From what he has told me most of the time the visibility is only a foot to a few feet and he just digs around in the mud and feels for the teeth, he has told me of the many times seeing a big shark swim out of the gloom and right by him and on a few occasions having one bump into him, I ask him what he does when this happens, he said I just keep digging  , I don't think I could stay down after seeing a 10' to 12' shark come anywhere close to me much less bumping into to me in murky water!!! I see if I can find the tooth and take some pictures |
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, I don't think I could stay down after seeing a 10' to 12' shark come anywhere close to me much less bumping into to me in murky water!!!