Skip to comments.
North Carolina beachgoer captures drone footage of Civil War-era shipwreck
FoxNews.com ^
| April 4, 2018
| Madeline Farber
Posted on 04/08/2018 5:20:36 AM PDT by ETL
While vacationing at Holden Beach in North Carolina last week, 42-year-old Brent Garlington spotted what is thought to be a wrecked Civil War-era steamer.
Garlington, of Fayetteville, flew a drone over the Lockwood Folly Inlet, which is located between Holden Beach and Oak Island.
The tide was low because of the full moon, Garlington told Fox News on Tuesday. This prompted him to take a walk on the beach sandbar and ultimately capture the footage using a drone.
While Garlington didnt discover the vessel, he believes "this is the first time it has been seen from this perspective."
(snip)
A representative from the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) later identified the steamer in the footage as BENDIGO, "a side-wheel, iron hulled blockade runner lost in Lockwood's Folly Inlet," Michele Walker, the department's public information officer, told Fox News in an email.
She said that two other vessels -- the runner ELIZABETH and the Union warship IRON AGE -- are also lost in the inlet. All three wrecks have been "well-known since the 1960s" and are "occasionally uncover[ed] due to active depositional sediment transport in the inlet," she added.
Separately, in 2016, researchers with the North Carolina DNCR found a submerged Civil War-era steamer which is believed to possibly be the remains of one of three blockade runners used to penetrate the wall of Union naval vessels blocking the port of Wilmington during the Civil War, the organization said at the time.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: abrahamlincoln; bendigo; brentgarlington; godsgravesglyphs; greatestpresident; holdenbeach; lockwoodfolly; militaryhistory; northcarolina; oakisland; shipwreck; thecivilwar
1
posted on
04/08/2018 5:20:36 AM PDT
by
ETL
To: SunkenCiv
2
posted on
04/08/2018 5:21:35 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
To: ETL
While Garlington didnt discover the vessel, he believes "this is the first time it has been seen from this perspective." Oh Yes, the "First time ever" phrase. Everyone needs to think they are the first timers for so many things. I guess that has been restricted FAA airspace and no has EVER flown over the ship wreck. Give me a break.
3
posted on
04/08/2018 5:25:27 AM PDT
by
New Perspective
(Proud father of a son with Down Syndrome and fighting to keep him off Obama's death panels.)
To: All
I think the ship may have resembled this one...
4
posted on
04/08/2018 5:28:06 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
To: ETL
While Garlington didnt discover the vesselAlt headline: Tourist flies drone over beach.
To: New Perspective
Perhaps he meant from a drone’s perspective, hovering directly above, as opposed to speeding by in an airplane.
6
posted on
04/08/2018 5:30:43 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
To: ETL
I guess helicopters never hovered there.
7
posted on
04/08/2018 5:31:53 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: wally_bert
See if you can find any photos from a hovering helicopter or prior drone. Or, maybe better, underwater photos or video.
8
posted on
04/08/2018 5:36:24 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
To: ETL
At some point, I plan to get a drone and take the training class.
The local tech college offers training sometimes.
9
posted on
04/08/2018 5:43:38 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: ETL
"occasionally uncover[ed] due to active depositional sediment transport in the inlet," Bureaucracy speak for a full moon, outgoing low tide.
10
posted on
04/08/2018 5:45:23 AM PDT
by
capydick
(“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
To: wally_bert
Maybe, but how’s the surface water look with 150mph+ “winds” blowing down on it?
To: ETL; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks ETL. Looks like this topic has stirred up a hornet's nest of hostility toward drones.
12
posted on
04/08/2018 6:08:28 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: wally_bert
At some point, I plan to get a drone and take the training class. The local tech college offers training sometimes. I have been really aching for one. Technology has driven down the price where a fully equipped (vid, nvg or thermal) can be gotten for around 2 grand. We used different types of drones in our SAR. Everything from a flying wing to 4 props. The flying wing cost 50K with all the software and hardware....
13
posted on
04/08/2018 6:10:20 AM PDT
by
eartick
(Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
To: ETL
One would think the ship would be a nautical hazard, especially at night, and marked with a lighted buoy.....
14
posted on
04/08/2018 6:14:10 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
To: eartick
I have a Go Pro 5 that I rarely use.
As pricey as flight schools are, drone flying might be as far as I get.
15
posted on
04/08/2018 6:43:36 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: ETL
Familiar territory.
A buddy dinged it up with his prop one time when it was just under the surface where it "normally" sits. It's right on the Holden Beach side of the inlet, IIRC.
There's lots of old boat skeletons in the area. d:^)
16
posted on
04/08/2018 7:37:18 AM PDT
by
CopperTop
(Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
To: SunkenCiv
Thanks, SC! Nothing like a good fish story to find out who's the biggest liar story teller!
17
posted on
04/08/2018 10:05:51 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(It's like winter is very mad and keeps storming out only to come back and yell, "And another thing!")
To: SunkenCiv
Re: Drone vs Bald Faced Hornets
Lol!
I wonder how many hornets were downed by the drone’s blades.
18
posted on
04/09/2018 5:20:21 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
To: ETL
You probably also so the related vids, apparently using drones against hornets/wasps/yellowjackets is a popular sport now. :^)
19
posted on
04/10/2018 5:35:21 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: HonkyTonkMan
20
posted on
04/16/2018 10:27:08 PM PDT
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(I think therefore im Dangerous to the liberal agenda !)
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson