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Nice,I will have to bookmark them.BTW, aren't they making an IMAX movie about looking for the Sant Maria also?
 
Wow, that would be great, an IMAX movie on recovering the Santa Maria! Whoooo!

When I was a lot younger (when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, LOL), I seriously considered a career in commercial diving ("hardhat" diving). I wanted to do salvage diving... I think if I'd stayed in Florida, I'd have done just that, and you'd have never seen me on dry land again!

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damn hey Cat so you been livin in paradise all ur life eh? Florida and Now California!!! you soo lucky! all yews in cali and caribbean and all those beautiful places, hey u got extra room in dat home? :cheers
 
No, I hated Florida, except for the Keys, and when I was under water...

I grew up and have lived in or near Chicago for the first half of my life, the second (coming up) half of my life is now in Southern California... I was in Florida for about eight months after I got out of college - traveling with my parents - and really, I don't mean to say anything bad about Florida but I was young and wanted to be with people my own age. Only time I got to do that was in the Keys - snorkeling over John Pennekamp Reef - and I met some very lovely college boys there... Well... :cheers

Actually I also rather liked some of the UNdeveloped areas of Florida - tropical jungle can be beautiful - and the Everglades, WOW... But I didn't see enough of it.
 
i was stationed in san diego and then on pendleton for a bit there and i love southern cal, my buddies and i used to take the train up to la every weekend and we loved it there is so much to do there plus i had a buddy who lived near there and so i got to see some of the suburbs and the places a little more family oriented and those were lovely too. not to mention the weather and the beaches and the...scenery
 
Catalina, i hate to dash your dreams darlin' but to do an underwater archaeological excavation such as you're talking about takes a degree in anthropology/archaeology with a minor in geography or oceanography (which fortunately I have). And they still won't let me near a major excavation due to the fact that i have less than 5 years of experience in excavations on my Ciriculum Vita. But i sure want to!!!! If i ever get the chance to jump on something like that i'll be ALL OVER IT! Plus if i get to i'm posting it here with all the cool pictures and stuff. Texas Tech is an excellent school for this as well as Texas A&M Corpus Cristi and UCSD in Cali in case you get real serious about it and want to do it for real.
 
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Catalina, i hate to dash your dreams darlin' but to do an underwater archaeological excavation such as you're talking about takes a degree in anthropology/archaeology with a minor in geography or oceanography (which fortunately I have).
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in case you get real serious about it and want to do it for real.
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<sigh> I'm well past that point, sadly... So I can only dream. But I seriously would have gotten in Commercial Diving if I'd stayed in Florida...

So you have a degree in anthropology/archaelology? Have you dug anywhere?
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Mostly in Texas on old Spanish missions like the one's in Menard, San Antonio, and the like. Unfortunately to get a job that pays well you need experience and to get experience you need a job, like anything else worth while. So we'll see where I end up with it. I'm not giving up on it yet.
 
... ye got's any innerest in thangs like ol' stage stations, homesteads, Indian campsites, etc? Fred Bob's done traveled tew de `Trans-Pecos` part o' Texas an' shore did be findin' it fascinatin' country an' history! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
 
I did some work in Illinois - "Early Man" habitation sites dated back as early as 6500 BCE - through Northwestern (Illinois) University. Fun stuff, really enjoyed it, but ya gotta be cracked to sit in the hot sun every day digging in the dirt, LOL! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

Have some friends who did some work - on the historic side - in New Mexico and Arizona, too. The mission work must be interesting...

I love history in general, I guess. `Trans-Pecos` sounds neat, Fred Bob!
 
I try to keep to historical archaeology (has written documentation) for now since i'm still relatively new to the field. I've done some paleolithic work on 41LU1 (Lubbock Lake Landmark) in Lubbock Texas with the Texas Tech Museum (found a large semi "`bi-pedal`" bear, looks like a regular bear to me) but couldn't get a taste for something based on pure conjecture. I want PROOF! (preferably whiskey, at least 90 or so) So i'm sticking to the `1600-1800s`.

Fred Bob, actually the acreage i'm living on now has turned up some old Folsom points (a type of arrowhead used by early American Indian before the arrival of Coronado which originated in the South Central part of Mexico) and proof of a butcher site on the back 40 acres due to the patterns on some bone I've dug up. From what I can tell it was done using metal blades so it may have been anyone from Boone to a Native American. Not realy interesting, but it beats the heck out of living on boring land.
 
I think diving on wrecks would be really interesting... I love all those Discovery shows where they search for and find old shipwrecks - or planes! Ever read Clive Cussler? I wanna be Dirk Pitt! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
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