There is a Cape San Blas off the Apalachicola area of the Florida Panhandle.
There is a lighthouse
there.  The Blacks did a lot of dredging in the Gulf of Mexico.

Doris Underwood
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Date: Saturday, August 07, 1999 2:36 PM
Subject: Donna & Riley Black


>Back in 1979, I obtained two specimens of Siratus beaui Fischer & Bernardi,
>1857. They were dredged in 720 ft. of water, Gulf of Mexico off Cape San
>Blas. I no longer collect Murex and had put them aside and forgot about
them.
>For some reason assumed the Cape San Blas area was off NW Florida. Believe
>the Black's were living in central or south Florida so can't imagine that
>they came up to NW Florida. Does anyone out there have shells from the
>Black's, and if so did any come from Cape San Blas and where is this
>location? At 720 ft. of water, one would have to go way out in the NW area
of
>the Gulf, to reach that depth.
>
>Best Regards,
>Bob Granda
>Panama City, Florida