Eureka #1: Land Shark Mystery Cache

This is a mystery cache. The listed coordinates are fake. You must solve the puzzle below to determine the real coordinates. You need no special knowledge, just a keen observation and correlation. When you get that Aha moment, we hope you yell “Eureka!” There is parking just south of the cache.

Consider the following list of sixteen sentences. Each sentence contains a hidden element. Together, the elements from each sentence will form an obvious pattern or connection to a common theme.

To solve this puzzle, you need to:

1. Discover the hidden elements in the sentences and deduce the theme that binds those elements together as a set.
2. Put the sentences in their proper order based on the theme. One of the sentences has no defined position, so put it last.
3. When in the proper order, the first letter of the first sentence, the second letter of the second sentence, and so on up to the sixteenth letter of the sixteenth sentence, will provide a clear explanation of the theme.
4. The coordinates of the cache are color coded below but scrambled into 6 sets. The real coordinates are within 5 miles of the fake coordinates and match them in one additional aspect.

1. We got soaked as I hailed one of the green-and-white checkered cabs.
2. After a serious brownout, energy supplies started to recover.
3. If he gets on the green in two, he will have a shot at an eagle.
4. Was it 1958 when the song “The Purple People Eater” hit the charts?
   
5. Many people drink orange juice only for breakfast.
6. Don’t you think this puzzle is full of suspicious white noise?
7. A telephone book nowadays has more yellow pages than white pages.
8. Dawn played the Beatles’ White Album over and over when she felt blue.
9. The waiter asked each guest if they preferred red or white wine.
10. Deep Purple concerts concluded with powerful white light bursts.
11. There were twelve people named Bass in the Orange County white pages.
12. A total eclipse happens once in a blue moon.
13. My red, bloodshot eyes indicated just how exhausted I was.
14. Slow down when you see yellow lights.
15. Is it strange that the blacksmith is the only bachelor over 30 years old?
16. Charlie Brown and Lucy sang White Christmas with the carolers.

Coordinates:

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