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Saturday, March 29, 2008
A piece of a shipwreck
At Spurn head we saw a bit of a stranded ship. The iron had been corroded and sanded into a smooth black object, nearly organic in shape.
I have decided I think this is a steelified (as opposed to fossilized) hammerhead shark. Unless someone else can come up with a better theory of what this might have been.
It was about 10 inches long. And it was next to a big chunk of a ship machinery (a boiler or what?, you can see a picture of it on my webalbum (http://picasaweb.google.com/olle.edqvist/SpurnHeadBeverley/photo#5183140786653032706).
There is a series of ship wrecks outside that reef, and this one could have been from a relatively late one stranded in 1970's I would guess. But how the parts have been moved from the bottom up on the shore I have no idea - would they not normally sink into the sand? They were certainly not there when I visited the shore a couple of years back.
I love this photo. I wonder what part of the ship it was, and how it ended up on the shore. Do you think that shop stranded close by?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. I like the smooth, sculpted shape the sand and water gave it, perfect as a garden ornament. Was it large?
ReplyDeleteI have decided I think this is a steelified (as opposed to fossilized) hammerhead shark. Unless someone else can come up with a better theory of what this might have been.
ReplyDeleteIt was about 10 inches long. And it was next to a big chunk of a ship machinery (a boiler or what?, you can see a picture of it on my webalbum
ReplyDelete(http://picasaweb.google.com/olle.edqvist/SpurnHeadBeverley/photo#5183140786653032706).
There is a series of ship wrecks outside that reef, and this one could have been from a relatively late one stranded in 1970's I would guess. But how the parts have been moved from the bottom up on the shore I have no idea - would they not normally sink into the sand? They were certainly not there when I visited the shore a couple of years back.