I understand that the University of Florida is big in this. I have been tempted to send them a piece of the cypress I cut on occassion.
Loggers will run over logs that are 7-8 ft. beneath the muck in the bottom of the swamps. They pull them out if they can and and are usually given some to bring home.
I've had the opportunity to saw them and it is quite an experience. Unlike the stories of submerged logs, these are generally shook pretty bad and smell to high heaven. They are all heart and if dried slowly the good wood comes out like it was just cut. The smell goes away.
I would sure like to know the age because the tops of the logged trees left in the swamps in the 1800's are still on the top of the ground or partially buried under the water.
These that are so deep must be from a time before this country was discovered and are wind blown. There are no logging marks and most are in lengths too long to have been handled by a logger.
I picture some prehistoric man hopping from one to the other to get across the pond. My imagination is kind of screwy at times.
