- “If you have a random, wooden shipwreck on the beach, it’s most likely a wreck from the 1800s and that’s because there were so many more ships sailing in the 1800s than in the centuries before,” Chuck Meide, Director of the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program, told Click Orlando.
- State archeologists are planning further investigation into the wooden remains in an attempt to age the wood, including examining maritime records to potentially identify the ship.
- WFTV Reporter Mike Springer says that “due to the materials and construction of the ship and the number of ships sailing off the coast, archeologists believe the 1800s is the most likely era.”
