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Operation Lodestone: A Marine Archaeological Exploration Off Cape Canaveral and the Florida Keys Utilizing the Varian M-49A Proton Magnetometer to Determine the Locations of Early Shipwrecks (1962)
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Operation Lodestone: A Marine Archaeological Exploration Off Cape Canaveral and the Florida Keys Utilizing the Varian M-49A Proton Magnetometer to Determine the Locations of Early Shipwrecks (1962)
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This report describes a marine archaeological project to locate certain of these wrecks in the above-mentioned areas and the information obtained from that survey.A proton magnetometer was employed in the survey to detect ferrous masses that would be present in the sunken remains of old shipwrecks. Operation Lodestone resulted in the discovery of one modern wreck, the possible discovery of some five early wreck sites, and the examination of the remains of a known early wreck, from which...