SF News Huge Booty of Sunken SF Gold Rush Treasure To Be Auctioned Off Saturday in Reno The S.S. Central America sunk in 1857, and 425 people did not make it off alive. But their artifacts have been recovered, and will be up for auction at a Saturday antiquities event in Reno.
SF News Ship Shows Up Beneath Sand at Ocean Beach, Mysterious Tar Balls Showing Up In Marin Winter weather exposes some old stuff at the coasts, and some mysterious tar balls, hundreds of them, appearing on beaches in Marin -- with a large number on Limantour Beach at Point Reyes.