5mo ago

Bones that washed up on New Jersey beaches were identified as the captain of a 19th-century ship traveling to Philly

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All that time and he only made it to Jersey.
- Pour one out for that dude who had a sad life
How did the bones last so long? I thought the sea eventually dissolved bones, which is why there are no skeletons around the Titanic, just the shoes they were wearing.
- I learned about this yesterday, I know you left this comment two months ago... There's a depth in the ocean called the CCD ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonate_compensation_depth ) where calcium based material dissolves away. If the bones were above this depth, they would've survived.
  
  That's interesting - thanks for the information!