Hi Nate, to continue our Explorers Club series, today I want to take you on a bit of a good old-fashioned adventure.

Well, I'm intrigued. What do you mean by old-fashioned though?

Well, we usually talk to people in this series about exploration and discovery, whether that be through space, the poles, mountaineering, etc.

But our guest today comes to us with a bit of a different perspective.

He's rediscovering as opposed to discovering. He's combing through history to provide context to some of our cultural touchstones.

Sounds impressive. How is he doing that?

One word? Shipwrecks.

We did a lot of survey work in that bay and nothing was coming up.

Nothing.

We needed to get into that beach.

And the day of the day that we were going to land on that beach was incredibly high surf. And so we had to hike across the island to get to that bay.

And that was a five mile hike.

So our expedition turned from an aquatic to a land expedition that day.

We crossed mountains to get to the bay,

but I knew as soon as we got there,

when I saw the similarity of the sketch done by that survivor and seeing that same angle I knew that this was the bay and

Immediately we started as the tide started rolling out, we started taking our metal detectors and surveying the area where the low tide was and things were really popping.

And pieces of metal started materializing and what we could determine

what looked like the ship's paddlewheel axle started taking form in the surf.

And as we were looking in that area,

other archaeologists were combing the areas

above the high tide mark,

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