Biggest Shipwreck Finds In History

Found this article on Fox news yesterday.....No. 5 is the ship "Nuestra Señora de Atocha" which sank in 1622...I followed Mel Fisher's many adventures on the Discovery channel when he was looking for it.......and was blown away when they ran the episode of when he finally found it and watched as the underwater divers filmed the treasure with a lot of it just laying on the surface of the shallow sandy bottom.....A lot of the treasure is in a museum in Key West and some of it is for sale....some of the silver bars were sold to jewelers who in turn melted them down and turned them into replica's of some of the coins found on the wreck.....I was so excited years ago when one of our prominent jewelers hosted one of these jeweler makers to present these coins and other items for sale locally.....I just had to have one so I got this one with a "certificate of authenticity" .....it is one of my prized possessions.....here is the link to the article....don't know how long Fox will keep it available so I will copy the portion pertaining to this wreck....

• 5. Nuestra Señora de Atocha
The 1622 wreck of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha is among the most valuable in history. The Spanish treasure ship had been hauling the wealth of the New World in its cargo hold, laden with jewels and precious metals.
Some 460 years later, the shipwreck would be found by Mel Fisher, an Indiana chicken farmer turned treasure hunter. The immense fortune Fisher uncovered came at a hefty price, however. On a previous expedition to find the sunken vessel, Fisher's wife and son died after their boat capsized while looking for the treasure.
Since it's discovery, the Nuestra Señora de Atocha is estimated to hold around $450 million to half a billion dollars worth of treasure, and excavation work to find what remains of the ship's haul continues to this day.


http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/...tcmp=obnetwork

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I liked the part where the gov tried to take one of his finds away from him. He took them to court and won. Boy where they ever ticked. Not to be sore losers they just changed the rules on future hunts and made other hunts almost impossible. If I ever find one no one will ever know. I'll melt it and sell it a little at a time.