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The Lost Ship in the Desert: Sonora Desert
Desert Sun ^
| between 1996 and 2022
| Bob Difley
Posted on 07/12/2022 10:58:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
How could a ship come to rest on desert sands so far from salt water? One explanation holds that an exceptionally large tide from the Gulf of California may have collided with an exceptionally heavy runoff from the Colorado River at the delta, producing a flood which broke through the land barrier to the Salton Sea. The cresting waters could have carried a ship over the natural dam and down into the Salton Sea basin. The flood would have then retreated, leaving the vessel stranded.
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: batmasterson; bobdifley; california; charleyclusker; coloradoriver; epigraphyandlanguage; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; greennewdeal; gulfofcalifornia; lakecahuilla; lostshipofthedesert; mohavedesert; petroglyphs; saltonsea; sonorandesert; thevikings; treasure; vikings
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To: SunkenCiv
“I’m ready for my close-up, now, Mr. DeMille!”.................
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:23:33 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: gr8eman
Sahara? Had Matthew McConugnehy (sp), story about a lost, gold laden confederate iron clad in the middle of the desert.
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:25:35 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Crush, smash and obliterate the Liberal New World Order)
To: SunkenCiv
Louis L’Amour wrote about this in a novel.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:26:54 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: SunkenCiv
Dirk Pitt found it first.
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:27:25 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:27:30 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: Red Badger
Or somebody as really, really bad at navigation.....................This is what happens when you give up the sextant in favor of only electronics
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:28:33 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:28:44 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: SunkenCiv
can i borrow it to correct this autocorrect situation?...
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:28:56 AM PDT
by
heavy metal
(smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
To: llevrok
Maybe his Viking Sunstone as on the blink....
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:30:55 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: SunkenCiv; Red Badger
The entire Salton Sea area is tiny. Rent a Cessna. Spent 2 hours flying over it.
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:32:25 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:35:03 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
I remember seeing an old Bat Masterson episode about this years ago.
I also read of it in a book by Brad Williams and Choral Pepper about lost treasures of the West.
Then True Treasure magazine had an interesting article about it.
I always thought the Salton Sea depression would be the best place. The ships sail in, then find their way out blocked, then the sea, more a lake, dries out and they are trapped.
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:35:10 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” – Aristotl)
To: SunkenCiv
He must have been getting along in years by that time.
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:36:48 AM PDT
by
rdl6989
( )
To: SunkenCiv
Took a wrong turn at Albuquerque
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:42:00 AM PDT
by
The Louiswu
(We couldn't 'afford' $4 billion for Trump's wall at the southern border?)
To: SunkenCiv
Reminds me of the Clive Cussler novel “Sahara”, and movie, where Dirk Pitt finds a civil war ironclad filled with gold in the middle of the Sahara dessert.
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:54:33 AM PDT
by
Rainwave
("Work out your OWN salvation with fear and trembling")
To: SunkenCiv
But the Salton Sea was created by accident, they dug a dirt ditch to bring water from the colorado river to irrigate the new avocado orchards they planted and a 2 year flood of the colorado river created it in 1905.
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:55:59 AM PDT
by
eyeamok
(founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
To: Rainwave; The Louiswu; Freedom_Is_Not_Free; Puppage
Did any of Cussler's books incorporate the Oak Island (fake) mystery?
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:57:12 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: heavy metal
Heh... AI’s useless if it can’t figure out autocorrect. :^)
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posted on
07/12/2022 11:58:12 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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