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  • An 8-Year-Old Boy Got a Metal Detector for His Birthday—and Found a 170-Year-Old Shipwreck

    05/15/2025 9:30:42 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 19 replies
    Popular Mechanics ^ | May 15, 2025 | Staff
    The St. Anthony was nearly 200 years old, crashing the same year it was initially built. An 8-year-old boy out metal-detecting unearthed a steel spike that, after digging further, he realized was attached to a shipwreck. The ship remains was that of the St. Anthony, a schooner that was built in 1856 and wrecked later that same year. Experts determined that the best course of action was to simply re-bury the wreckage to maintain its structure. ======================================================================= When you’re a kid, and you get your first metal detector, it comes with big dreams of making some great discovery. That you’re...