the site was originally discovered in the late 1970s, early 1980s by don shomette and ralph eshelman. they nicknamed is turtle shell wreck they found a large turtle shell on the site. it had oral histories that suggested some of them had seen them in low water and fished over them. they put a wind coffer mill around the site and did some excavations on the site. they found some very significant artifacts. medical supplies, surgical equipment. weapons as well too, such as small arms. also found a large chest, wooden chest, with the markings on it, the initials on it from a company from baltimore that had supplied equipment to the flotilla, so they're pretty certain this was indeed one of the flotilla vessels, and they believed it was the "uss scorpion," which is the flagship -- joshua barney's flag ship. particularly because of the medical and surgical supplies, thinking that the surgeon would be on the "scorpion." we came back in preparation for doing a major excavation in commemoration of 2010 and 2011, relocating the site and doing a series of test excavations. the artifacts that ha