The mystery object turned out to be from a sunken German warship.
“In January 1944, the SS Rio Grande, a German blockade runner, was carrying tin, copper, cobalt and crude rubber bales when she was spotted by the USS Omaha and USS Jouett off the coast of Brazil,” the PINS post states. “Realizing that they had been spotted, the crew of the Rio Grande abandoned the ship and its cargo after purposely trying to sink it. The Omaha and Jouett fired on the Rio Grande until it sank, sending all its cargo to the ocean bottom where it was resting until recently.
“The region was a large producer of rubber, especially during WWII. French Indochina was dominated by the Japanese during WWII, which resulted in cargoes of natural crude rubber being carried by German ships,” the report states.“It was over 200 lb and we couldn’t move it off the beach,” Ward said. “Through Tik Tok and our own research, we were able to discover what it was. It may not have been worth anything monetarily, but to us, the experience was so cool and invaluable.
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