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Stranded fishing buoy

This is a European glass fishing buoy covered in coral—a super rare find in my beachcombing experience. The craziest thing is that you can see the net that originally held the buoy still embedded in the coral! European glass buoys like this were manufactured from around the mid-19th century onward, and they revolutionized the ocean fishing industry. Net sizes had always been limited by the functionality of wooden buoys, which became waterlogged and eventually sank. Glass buoys enabled nets to be

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