In 1985 a four-century treasure hunt ended in the Florida Keys when the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha was found by treasurer hunter Mel Fisher and James J. Sinclair, Fisher’s chief diver.
DESPITE THE CHOPPY SEAS AND nearly 3-hour boat ride, there was an air an excitement on our dive boat now anchored about 40 miles off Key West. We were about to dive on the site of the Nuestra Senora ...
Divers searching for treasure off the coast of Florida have found an antique gold ring worth $500,000 from a 17th century sunken spanish ship. The ring is believed to be from the Nuestra Senora de ...
Nearly 40 artifacts from Mel Fisher's discovery will be up for auction. — -- This is the public’s chance to get their hands on treasure lifted from the bottom of the sea. Thirty years after Mel ...
Every September, Key West puts on a festival honoring treasure hunter Mel Fisher. That’s the man who said, “Today’s the day!” until his crew found $400 million of gold, silver and jewels beneath the ...
One year, 500,000 pieces of treasure, four books, a made-for-TV movie, a National Geographic special, a beer commercial and several hundred kegs of rum later, it`s just another day in paradise at Mel ...
The Atocha’s fateful voyage began from Havana, Cuba, on September 4, 1622. Part of Spain’s Tierra Firme fleet, the heavily armed galleon not only carried the weighty responsibility of transporting a ...
Treasures from the world's most valuable shipwreck are being displayed in New York 400 years after they sunk to the bottom of the sea off Florida's coast. The anticipated Winter Show in New York City ...
Rivers of rum and Coke are flowing. Swaggering old salts are swapping tales by the treasure-trunk load. Twenty years after Mel Fisher discovered the lode of a 17th-century Spanish galleon and its vast ...
The Eastern Shore widow of chicken magnate Frank Perdue plans to sell an emerald from a 400-year-old Spanish shipwreck to stop the trafficking of Ukrainian refugees. Mitzi Perdue, 81, is the heiress ...
Displayed under glass in little black velvet boxes, the polished silver coins reflect no mark of tragedy and travail. They have been cleaned of the black crust of centuries and seem at home in a ...
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