I'm sure there must be some remnants, but I remember reading about a group removing the steam engine, stack, and other mostly visible components. In 91 I quit my job with Tandy because of an offer by Jim Gilmore to come in and manage the sales and rental of GPS sateliite receivers, side scan sonar, magnetometers, and other fun stuff, used for underwater pipe location, offshore and inland surveying, sea bottom profiling, and the like. Unfortunatley my friend of several years passed away suddenly and those plans never materialized. He was giving half the company to me and the other half to his chief field engineer so he and his wife could travel and cut loose a bit. With a magnetometer, you can cover a fifty foot swath and locate iron 15 ft. below the ground. Time and money are the only reasons I haven't tried myself to recover artifacts from the teche.
Another guy, a Mr. Eymard from down the bayou, told me a story about how he watched a couple guys working a spot on the beach from a small boat, while trawling with his father off grand isle. When they returned from fishing a few days later, he investigated the spot on the beach these guys were seen digging around. He found a stack of round rocks (ballast stones) and several holes dug in the sand. He did not know what they were at the time, but after doing some research, and finding a gold coin with a small metal detector, he bought the property where all this happened and has spent years without success trying to find more treasure. Another tale of elusive pirates gold.
JT |
