Message #25847

[Bianca]

A Visit To a South-Florida Well-Driller's Office


In February of 2006, William Hutton, Jonathan Eagle, and Alfredo Salas were able to confirm the geologic picture of Bimini's subsurface, as described in the reading fragment just below. We did this while meeting with a south Florida water-well driller whose staff had drilled two relatively deep test wells on North Bimini. The driller provided us with a report of the logs of the wells cored.
... sulphur waters may be obtained where there is seen an old channel on north end of the south portion of north island. These, we find, will be of the black sulphur, yet for certain conditions - and for the baths as may be instituted through same - will be quite beneficial to health, and especially to those of the neuritic conditions - nervousness, and of the germ of rheumatic conditions, see? This will be found only eighty-nine to ninety (89 to 90) feet deep, see?

(996-12; March 2, 1927)

Figures 2 and 3 show the locations, relative to the “old channel on north end of the south portion of north island,” of the two test wells drilled within the past five years on North Bimini.


Fig. 2. Mosaic of 1943 aerial photography. Note former beachrock shoreline features on the ocean floor to the west and north of N. Bimini, and the rough correspondence of ancient (submerged) coastlines and headlands. Inset shows 1945 image of broken shorelines and "old channel." These features are also discernible in the smaller red box on photography taken two years earlier.