In 1622, a Spanish ship ‘Atocha’ carrying a rich bounty fell prey to a strong hurricane and sank. The Atocha treasure was discovered by a famous treasure hunter, Mel Fischer, who found it after almost two decades dedicated hunting. Fischer located the wreck of the Atocha near Florida. The...
Modern technology has made the location and retrieval of shipwrecks possible, but with the rise of statist attitudes in the United Nations, that may change IN THE 1977 motion picture, The Deep, a young couple, while scuba diving in the Bahamas, discover an ampoule of morphine lying near an ...
The Coast Guard is overseeing a salvage operation that raised a sunken freighter yesterday from the bottom of the St. Johns River near downtown Jacksonville.U.S. NewspapersThe Florida Times Union
A coin's value is based on its conditionand rarity, as well as the story behind it.Until now, the most valuable shipwreck discovery wasmade in 1985 in the waters near the Florida Keys bytreasure-hunter Mel Fisher. The coins he found in a sunken17th century Spanish ship were worth a ...
In 1985, American salvor Mel Fisher discovered the wreck of the Seora de Atocha, a Spanish ship that sank off the Florida Keys in 1622 with her cargo of gold, silver and jewellery worth an estimated US $400 million.An archaeologist can spend ten years or more studying a ship, conserving ...
In 1985, American salvor Mel Fisher discovered the wreck of the Seora de Atocha, a Spanish ship that sank off the Florida Keys in 1622 with her cargo of gold, silver and jewellery worth an estimated US $400 million.An archaeologist can spend ten years or more studying a ship, conserving ...
The NTSB failed to find the data recorder in its first search of the wreckage, some 15,000 feet underwater near the Bahamas. Key questions remain about routing decisions made by ship Capt. Michael Davidson that took the ship closer to the path of the storm. ...
The crew themselves represented the breaking of national and traditional norms of that time, as alongside one another there could have been “Swedes, escaped African slaves, Caribbean Creoles, Native Americans, and Arabs” [35, p. xxiii], with certain studies showing that depending on the ship,...