• FigMcLargeHuge
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    1 year ago

    I wonder why it was buoyant. Like if it’s just the sheared off end of a cylinder you’d think it would just sink?

    Something doesn’t have to be buoyant to wash up on shore.

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      1 year ago

      I’m the photos one can clearly see a line where part of the object was out of the water, since there’s no barnacles above that line. Also, if one were to read the article linked, one would read

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      “Sometime yesterday, a local lady and her partner discovered it just floating on the edge of the water and dragged it out with their four-wheel drive,” he said.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t know enough about this to argue, so sure. We are all just jumping to conclusions though. It could have been partially submerged somewhere else, gathered the barnacles, and then relocated to this beach after a storm. Who knows…