sasroodkapje
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Reged: 05/27/06
Posts: 2066
Loc: Holland
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Thanks fjpalacio and Welcome to Google Earth
add them to the collection.
greetings 
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Take care,,, before you are Amused To Death
Keep on searching, keep on posting, and most important,, Have fun .
    
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empty_fox
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Reged: 09/22/06
Posts: 4
Loc: North Carolina, USA
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I managed to find a different pic of the Shaunee that might give some perspective:
Try rotating and tilting your GE view at the placemark above to match the picture. It looks quite a bit like the location to me, considering the shape of the dunes and coastline. There appears to be a ship-like outline in the sand on the beach, but not as defined as in photos. That seems odd, since they are apparently recent pics. Maybe there was a storm there recently that changed the landscape a bit and the dunes have finally engulfed the wreck. Otherwise, I can't find anything in Conception Bay that looks remotely like it.
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empty_fox
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Reged: 09/22/06
Posts: 4
Loc: North Carolina, USA
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Here are some wrecks I've found in Angola.
Number 5 is very interesting, with the ship being split in half, but I can't seem to find anything about it.
A couple of pics of #2
And another in case it helps identify the boat:
Edited by empty_fox (09/22/06 11:32 PM)
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sasroodkapje
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Reged: 05/27/06
Posts: 2066
Loc: Holland
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Welcome to Google Earth empty_fox.
Nice find, and fine pictures to.
information is hard to find for most of the wrecks.
if you know a name then its no problem, I dont know if there is some database for this. I will try a search on the WWW for it.
could be intresting.
greetings
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Take care,,, before you are Amused To Death
Keep on searching, keep on posting, and most important,, Have fun .
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oxfordman
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Reged: 09/04/06
Posts: 3
Loc: Oxford, UK
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Nice work, empty_fox, I guess that probably has to be it. Looking at this pic:
http://www.pbase.com/bmcmorrow/image/45156435
and a couple more around it, it seems that the wreck was about two-thirds engulfed between running aground in 1976 and the above pictures in 2005. From this I deduce two things. Firstly, the GE images must be very recent if the wreck has all but vanished, and secondly there must have been a storm of rather severe scale to bury the remaining third in so short a time.
I'm still a little mystified, but your diligent work has moved things on considerably 
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Cosmopaleto
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Reged: 06/26/06
Posts: 23
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More in Baku
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> Visible shipwreck collection <
> Madrid3D.net <
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sasroodkapje
Collection Editor
Reged: 05/27/06
Posts: 2066
Loc: Holland
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Hi Cosmo,,
Nice finds again, The shipwreck collection is in a major re editing phase,
so be patient, it take a while before I update, there are almost 800 wrecks inside the collection, thats a lot of work 
But keep on searching and posting,
thanks and greetings
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Take care,,, before you are Amused To Death
Keep on searching, keep on posting, and most important,, Have fun .
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empty_fox
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Reged: 09/22/06
Posts: 4
Loc: North Carolina, USA
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Hi sasroodkapje, and thanks. I've actually got a few more wrecks to add to the collection, but thought I'd ask first, since I'm new...
Should I be adding any info, pictures, etc. to the placemarks myself, or should I just post everything I know here on the forum? Is there a preferred way I should name the wrecks? What will make things easiest for you when you do an update?
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empty_fox
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Reged: 09/22/06
Posts: 4
Loc: North Carolina, USA
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Thanks, oxfordman. Have you checked out this location lately? I may be wrong, but I think they have updated the area with a newer (and unfortunately poorer) image. The tide appears to be way out in this one, well beyond the end of the "boat", which is still somewhat visible. I also checked a different spot near there that I'd marked as a possible, but unlikely wreck and it was completely gone. Probably some random debris that washed away.
So I guess I couldn't 100% swear it's the Shaunee site, but it seems like the most likely spot for it to be. There's only a short stretch in the bay where the large dunes directly hit the ocean at that angle. Their shapes and the coastline in the pic seem to match, but I guess landscapes can change. Assuming it's the right place though, it seems a rather unusually drastic change to me as well. I can't think of another explanation for it, anyway.
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oxfordman
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Reged: 09/04/06
Posts: 3
Loc: Oxford, UK
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Hmm, yes there does seem to be a newer and poorer quality image now  I wonder why Google would update any coverage with coverage which is less clear?
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