The lid to my sub-sea boonker. Thanks for flooding it

Flotation collar for oceanographic data buoy with the outermost layer(s) missing.

https://images.search.yahoo.co...350.jpg&action=click

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
Thought it would be Shuttle parts also. Then wondered why seaweed/barnacles/whatever wouldn't have fastened themselves to shuttle parts by now. Trapper189's idea seems more plausible.

How much tidal shift would it take for this to be so far away from any water if it only 'floated' there?

I assumed it would have been kicked up by Florance. It's east coast USA.

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Originally posted by CaptainMike:
Flotation collar for oceanographic data buoy with the outermost layer(s) missing.

https://images.search.yahoo.co...350.jpg&action=click

That was my first thought but all the ones I've worked with back in the day were steel...

MH370?

too small to be a shuttle part

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Originally posted by 6guns:

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Originally posted by flashguy:
No way to tell how big it is. Looks to me like a lot of concrete around it, so how did it float?

flashguy

There is a woman standing next to it for reference.

So there is. I didn't see her--she was outside the frame of my window and I didn't slide the photo over. Sorry.

flashguy

It's a giant snow cone machine... Said in an Arnold voice.

WELL...maybe because having had ~18 years as a plumber the first thing that popped into my head was a precast sewage manhole. LOL!

I had the same thought. Though, they're unlikely to float.

looks like that probe from Andromeda Strain.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
Part of the U. S Space Shuttle Centerline fuel tank

I for one got a good laugh from this post.
 

It looks awfully familiar. Kind of like an escape pod from the Nostromo.

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Originally posted by Bisleyblackhawk:
It's part of the Icarus that Zira, Cornelius and Dr. Milo used to escape that ape planet.

Beat me to it! My other thought was that it is from a alien civilization and it brought The Walking Dead Virus to Earth!

It could be a flotation collar off the drill pipe of an offshore oil rig.

On rigs in deep water, the length of drill pipe hanging between the rig and the seafloor is too heavy for the rig to support, so they put flotation on it to reduce its weight. Obviously, the stuff floats, or it wouldn't be useful.

It's usually made out of polyurethane foam.

Drill pipe on an offshore rig is usually somewhere around 20-24" in diameter. It looks like that might be about right, based on the picture (it looks bigger than that, but the picture was probably taken with a cellphone camera, which use pretty wide-angle lenses, and the object is closer to the camera than the woman, which makes it appear disproportionately large as a result of forced perspective).

The way it's split across the front it could have peeled off a drill pipe, and it looks like it has a cylindrical bore through the middle.

Likely this dock fender collar.

Been wondering where that went. Hope NASA reimburses me for the money they took out of my paycheck.

Tried to tell them that I was only trying to figure out my new Iphone XE.
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Originally posted by 12131:
V-GER

May be whats left of a shell shot by the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator

It still looks like concrete to me. AND concrete can float. Concrete Ships