1622 Lost Galleon: The Hunt For The World's Most Valuable Shipwreck | Myth Hunters | Timeline

Sailors' stories told about a Spanish treasure trove that was

shipwreck

ed off Florida 300 years ago The richest Spanish trove to ever cross from Spain The legendary wealth of the Nestra Señora The DEA fueled the fantasies of treasure

hunt

ers There is so much treasure in Atocha that are incredible generations of adventurers planned and dreamed of discovering its riches, many people thought that dad was crazy, you know, they thought that this guy lived in a

world

of dreams, but Mel Fisher set out to find the wreck, it is a romance fun and adventure, sunken treasure was his obsession.

It gets into your blood and you can't stop, he put his heart into discovering the millions in gold, silver and emeralds that dad told us every day, today is the day you are going to find the treasure, look at that baby, this is the real story. From Mel Fisher's Extraordinary Search for the Treasure of the Lost Spanish Gallon Even as a boy growing up in Indiana during the 1930s, Mel Fisher was obsessed with Treasure Tales, especially the sunken treasures, unfortunately, the complex and expensive equipment necessary to dive in old

shipwreck

s put the search for treasures. Out of reach for ordinary people, but young Fisher was no ordinary person.

When Dad was 12, he made his own diving bell, it was a five-gallon bucket and he put a piece of plastic glass in it and then he had a hose that went to the surface and his friend had a bicycle pump, but the air He stopped going out and al

most

drowned in that lake, but despite all his dreams of Treasure, in the early 1950s, Mel Fisher was making a living as a chicken farmer when technology changed his life. a diving revolution the invention of the self-contained underwater breathing apparatus the use of an air tank Mel was able to make his childhood fantasies come true he was finally able to dive for treasure Mel sold the chicken farm and in 1953 with his wife Dio opened the first store California dive center and diving school in Rondo Beach, organized treasure-

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ing expeditions on shipwrecks made famous by pirate legends and old tales of sunken treasure.

He was like the P pip because everyone wanted to go with him, everyone wanted to be a part of it and he made everything exciting Mel found that there was no shortage of clients eager to try the thrill of treasure hunting, it easily becomes an obsession. I found my first treasure when I was 9 years old and it is a very addictive feeling, there is a definite emotion, a personal feeling that What you feel when you see something that no one else has seen or touched for hundreds of years and you bring it to the surface you just feel tingles and you want to find more, even with a growing family, enthusiastic amateur treasure hunter Mel Fisher took every opportunity to satisfy his passion, we would save up every year and go treasure hunting for a vacation and then his vacation became increasingly longer.

Mel's problem was that he lived on the west coast of California, but the best area to search for treasure was the east coast of California. In Florida and the Caribbean there are more sunken treasure ships than anywhere else in the

world

. My father told me that he thought there was a shipwreck every hundred meters from Havana, Cuba to North Carolina. Of course, not all of them are full of gold deons and those are the ones he was looking for. The reason the east coast is so rich in WS is due to the forces of 15th century geography and climate on the Spanish ruled and plundered.

C's riches in South America, great fleets of Spanish gallons, each one loaded. with tons of gold, silver and jewels sailed from Cuba to Spain every year for centuries, it was a tremendous flow of wealth for 300 years and all the richest families had people there sending them home,

most

of the ships made it home the longest part of the time. time but the shallow waters inside the Florida Keys reef became a death trap in hurricane season these hurricanes would push them onto that reef and then over it inside the reef and that's where they would end up breaking up and sinking along of

valuable

centuries.

Treasures have been rescued from rich ships found at the bottom of the sea. Occasionally, the SE would give a clue to the location of a fortune in the early 1960s. The gold rush hit Florida, suddenly gold D Bloons and silver eight pieces started appearing on the beaches they had. They had been looking for coins along the beach while they were combing the beach and they did some research and discovered this whole fleet of boats that had sunk here off Vero Beach, Florida, the owner of the salvage license for the area believed that the coins They were from the Spanish Treasure Fleet which sank in 1715.

Mel's reputation as a treasure hunter had grown and he was offered half of the 1715 treasure if he could find it. For Mel, this was a dream come true. This was his chance to be a full-time treasure hunter and turn professional. It meant uprooting his wife and four children 2,600 miles from California to Florida. It was a huge gamble: he could find nothing and lose everything, but in 1963 Mel decided to bet everything he had to follow his dream. He gave himself a year to achieve it. They decided they would sell everything and go work for a year and they convinced Fay Fields and four other guys to come work for free for a year.

Mel came armed with a secret weapon technology. Fay Fields. Mel's elected ICS expert had miniaturized a World War II submarine. detection device the flux gate magnetometer its underwater sensor could detect iron and steel on the sea floor by locating an anchor or even a nail Mel hopes the magnetometer will be a shipwreck search machine, but Mel's first months in Florida Florida searching for the Spanish fleet 1715 were disappointing It had a big problem, the magnetometer worked by detecting traces of iron, but when the divers jumped overboard to investigate, the water was so murky that they couldn't see their hand in front of their face much less look for the treasure Dad had many great characteristics.

For starters, he was an engineer, so he could always figure out how to solve a problem. If Mel couldn't solve this problem, his new life as a professional treasure hunter would be over before it even began. He set to work to find a way for his divers to see. My father had noticed that at the surface level there was clear water and he wanted to bring that clarity from the surface to the bottom, if a way could be found to push the clear water towards the bottom, then it would make it easier for divers to see the treasure.

Mel designed giant steel tubes that were attached to the back of the boat to redirect clear water from the propellers towards the sea floor while the boat was anchored, it would set the boat in motion and all the propeller wash or blowing water through the propeller it was then pushed down through the elbow of the tube towards the bottom, bringing the clear water downwards due to its shape. Mel called them mailboxes. No treasure hunter had ever tried anything like this. a large device worked perfectly made it crystal clear Mel had solved the visibility problem that divers could now see to investigate the magnetometer readings Clues to where the treasure ships had sunk by accident Mel's mailbox also solved another problem that didn't even I knew It turned out that it had a really nice side effect of digging a big hole real quick, the prop washing forced through Mel's giant mailboxes had opened a wide 6 foot deep hole in the sand at the bottom of the sea, which It used to take about a month to make.

Mel had revolutionized treasure hunting, he was sure that the origin of all those stranded silver and gold coins would soon be revealed by the mighty mailboxes, day after day he put them to work, but their initial success He started to look more like a beginner. lucky weeks turned into months with no signs of treasure Mel could give himself only a year to succeed as a professional treasure hunter after 11 months of hard work, he had nothing but a gaping hole in his bank balance, time and money were running out, but Mel Fisher never

lost

hope just a few days away from total failure his perseverance was rewarded he worked for 360 days without finding much and that day, the 3rd, 60th, they dug a hole and it was full of gold .

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They all moved to Florida permanently. They worked here on Fleet 175 for the next seven years. They found much success several of the shipwrecks many hundreds of thousands of beautiful artifacts Mel Fisher was living his dream he was a major professional treasure hunter but he set his sights even higher, he said, let's go after the U, the largest shipwreck this side of the puddle. Mel Fisher now had enough money and experience to launch a quest that would consume the rest of his life: the search for the last sunken treasure ship. she was fabulously rich. Half a billion dollars worth of gold, silver and emeralds had been sunk in the Florida Keys, but no one knew where and Mel was determined to find the Spanish gal Nestra Señora.

The torture of her. Mel's biggest problem was where to start looking for the aacha. One of eight ships of the

1622

Treasure Fleet that sank in the Florida Keys, but the Keys are a chain of thousands of small islands stretching across 700 feet of ocean. Mel faced an impossible task, except that the Spanish had left a 300-year-old clue in Seville. It is the Aro de Indas that is preserved here It is the original records of Spain's South American trade in the 16th and 17th centuries The Spanish were very obsessed with writing down everything possible that they could Mel had a copy of a document from 1620 that said that the aacha sank in the last key of the matumi for Mel, this was a big leap forward.

There were three islands in the upper keys, upper middle and lower mumbi, so that was where he started the search in 1968. Mel focused on the matum using proven magnetometers and letterbox techniques. His team of divers scoured the area, they would have the maps on the dining room table, all the divers would be sitting pointing at the maps and saying, well, what if the boats came this way? What if the storm came from that direction? There were thousands of theories theories theories theories for 3 years they tried everything but they found nothing not a trace of the atota or its sister ships of the fleet

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in

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not a coin not even a nail treasure hunting is an expensive business and money Mel of the coin horde almost spent himself chasing his atota dream, even born optimist Mel Fisher struggled to believe the sunken treasure ship was there, maybe he'd been crazy trying, then a chance encounter led to a breakthrough When Mel met the Florida historian Eugene Lion on a Sunday at church, he couldn't believe his luck.

Eugene was going to Seville to study documents in the Aro de Indas for his doctoral thesis. He said, "Uh-huh, please, for my sake, keep an eye on the Atocha because that's it." the boat I've been looking for for a long time I said I ever will. Optimistic Mel hoped that somewhere in Tim's 50 million stained pages of Spanish bureaucracy, Eugene would discover a clue to help find the aacha and, surprisingly, there I found a smaller package wrapped with a pink ribbon that referred to At the Salvage of the Saint Margaret, the ship Saint Margaret was lost in the Treasure Fleet of 1622, but when she sank in shallow waters, most of the people on board survived.

Eugene had discovered an eyewitness account of how they had observed the The founder of aacha and the sinking in plain sight are crucial to Mel. The fragile document provides a location. I checked it and found on the last page of the work the statement that these ships were lost, that they are not only Atocha but also Santa Margarita and the Kio Del Marquees, the kaios. The keys to Del Marquees or Márquez are located over 100 thousand southwest of the matumi, no wonder Mel couldn't find the aacha she had been looking for in the wrong place, but now surely this eyewitness account put her I reached for the aacha I thought I would surely find.

He was determined and confident in his ability to find him with New Hope. Mel got to work with his magnetometers looking for telltale iron. Clues to find the gallon. There was a lot of iron, but his divers only brought him bad news. The Navy has a goal. field there andWe found over 5,000 bombs while searching for Atocha and that really slows you down, but you have to check that each one of those targets invariably turns out to be an old bomb casing, you know, or it could be a refrigerator or it could be hundreds or thousands of things. that people have thrown overboard from their boat.

We found an old Volkswagen lying around. We even found a train month after month. Mel found scrap metal, but no sign of the atota every morning. My father said that today is. The day went on searching and searching and most people probably would have given up, but my father did and he was determined. Mel had already spent more than $200,000 searching and was desperately struggling to move forward. It was really very difficult. There were many times when there was no money, we would have fuel, but there was no money for food. Fuel was more important. We were each expert spearfishing anglers at the time and he had a similar fish.

He really he had a similar fish without money to maintain the boats. fueled Mel's search for the ata treasure ended to raise cash decided to sell shares of the Treasury when he found it but couldn't show a single item of aacha investors Ste of course, it's always difficult to get people to invest in something that almost It seems like a dream first of all if it can be done why hasn't it been done already um and if it hasn't been done yet is it real or is it just a story so many people just don't believe it it was true that there were a lot of people who didn't believe in us and he used to say: you know, we're just spending other people's money sunbathing here diving having a great time during the summer of 1971 Mel Fisher towed his magnetometer 175,000 M of seabed to get the investment he needed hard evidence that Aacha's treasure It was more than just a fantasy and, suddenly, a diver discovered it.

The diver came over and, yelling and screaming, says there's a huge anchor embedded down there. The diver's excitement told Mel this. It might be just the break I needed, but it was the anchor of the aacha, it had big fins that came like this and then they went down and the shaft was 17 feet long and it had a big ring around it, these giant giant rings like to tie the ropes into the ring It was so big even with all the encrustation that a diver could swim through it, I mean that's how big this thing was, the divers saw from its design that it was a Spanish gallant anchor, but only Mel was convinced. he had found the ATA, do you know how many anchors like that there are in that area, hundreds if not thousands, right, but this Mel knew it was the Atocha?

Dad was sure that this was the Atocha, you know, everyone else said, well, you have to Anchor, but you know you don't know that that's Thea and he was sure that he was convinced that Mel is, by the way, the optimist. largest in the world, but Mel's personal guarantees would not attract the investment he needed, he set out to look for supporting evidence on the anchor for small black spots embedded with silver coins when Mel pulled out a coin and passed it to his wife, she He kind of smeared it with his finger and said that this is King Philip IV with a Spanish seal, he was approximately the correct age, but the exact year was key.

Aacha sank in 1622, so a coin dated later would destroy Mel's claim to have found his treasure ship. I said that if we found any dated after 1622, we should throw them overboard. The coins dated from 1616 to 1621. This discovery kept Mel's dream alive. The anchor could in fact be from Aacha the next morning Mel had the fittings washing mailboxes blowing sand around the anchor when a diver saw something shining and as he fanned the sand with his hand a gold chain appeared and he picked it up and held it. showed everyone on the ship, I mean. everyone is going crazy Mel was saved, he couldn't prove that he had found the aacha, but the gold chain was without a doubt a treasure.

He enjoyed using her along with his infectious personality to spread the Gold Rush when he tried to give someone the Gold Rush that he would take. He removes that chain and slowly places it in his hand and tells them that gold never tarnishes, it doesn't rust, it doesn't turn yellow, it just shines forever as he slowly lowered the chain into his hand. My father loved to see the expression. the look on people's faces when he took that six-foot-long gold chain and put it in their hand. Now he didn't allow them to put their arm on a table or a chair, he made them raise their arm in the air so they could see.

His hand would come down because it was so heavy and then in the last 6 or 8 inches he would let it fall. Everyone who put it on or held it in their hand smiled and my dad loved to make people smile, they would grab that chain and get a gold rush and then they could give us some money to go find the Treasure with the gold chain and silver coins as evidence, potential investors finally began to believe that Mel Fisher might be on the trail of $500 million in gold, silver and jewelry that Mel made. raise enough money to keep going, but anyone expecting a quick return would be disappointed, it was like Atocha was mocking us, there was a bit of hair and we were thinking, oh, this is it, you know, we found the anchor, so you know the rest.

It should be right around it, we'll just dig around the anchor and of course everything will be there and it wasn't examining the last moments of torture in the hurricane of 1622. Mel was hoping to find clues that would lead. him to the riches in his hold with the masts knocked down and the rudder broken the wind and the waves would push the gallon towards the reef they are totally defenseless you are at the mercy of the sea and it will do whatever it wants with you the The last hope of the 265 people on board was to maintain the position of the ata tied to one of the huge galiano anchors hooked on the seabed, they would throw an anchor and try to bite it, they would hook the anchor and come out and these lines would break there for Mel, the anchor he discovered was like a sign that literally pointed the way to the shipwreck.

He'll tell you the direction of the ship and where it sank because wherever the flu dug up Luke, on the opposite side of it she would be. hanging on the anchor, the anchor was pointing northwest, so when the rope separated, the chevron was driven by the weather to the southeast and sank, you know, we thought it was okay, we got the anchor, you know, now we're going to find a shipwreck. Being close, we only see where the anchor is pointing and we go there full of hope. Mel's team worked methodically towards the southeast, they found some pieces of silver and Mel's eldest son, Durk, even discovered a very rare Navigator astral that surprisingly still works week after week.

Mel's mailboxes dug hole after hole in the soft quicksand, but the legendary pile of treasure did not appear, only tantalizing clues, they are all empty holes, and suddenly we find ourselves with all this purple color representing silver coins. Quite a few coins were found there. right there and this orange represents lead musket balls, more empty holes than anything else. Optimistic Mel always put a positive spin on things, so we dug another empty hole, but he said, well, that's not an empty hole, that's another place, you know, where treasure isn't you making a huge ocean by yourself. a little smaller so you're getting one step closer to the treasure for 3 years Mel's mailboxes made sand holes in the bottom of the sea finding ceramic oil flasks muskets swords daggers and just a few coins but Mel Never got you You get discouraged, you know you dig so many empty holes, but every once in a while there is one full of treasures and that's when it all becomes worth it in one day, on May 25, 1973, just 200 meters from the anchor.

Mel's team recovered 1,1460 Spanish silver coins, so many that they named the site after the Bank of Spain. Crucially, neither coin was dated after 1621. Could this really be the atota treasure? Mel was about to discover in July 1973. Historian Eugene Lion received a call from Mel's office. They found something new and needed their EXP. We found three of these silver bars that are about the size of a loaf of bread and weigh about 80 pounds each. The three bars are worth about $100,000 as bullion, but their value to Mel was far off. larger, each ingot was stamped with a Roman numeral, its unique serial number, if they matched the chevron records, they would prove once and for all whether Mel had really found the Aten.

I walked over to see the three silver bars, so I bent down and took them down. the numbers on the bars I said this looks good Mel and he said it is good from the Aro de indas in Seville Eugene had the microfilm papers of the manifest of the original ships of the ata its official cargo was listed as including 40 tons of silver ingots 901 each with its serial number scanned line after line page after page of the lost treasure looking for a match then I put the reel for the atoi I got to the numbers on the bars uh and there they were, the TOA M had triumphed, he convinced the skeptics and silenced them. its detractors from that moment on we knew we had the Atocha without a doubt the ship's manifest also revealed that the three silver bars were only a small fraction of the ata's mother's treasure there were 898 more bars and gold jewelry out there somewhere What Mel didn't realize was that the gallium treasure lay scattered and buried over miles of seabed.

The southeast line from the anchor to the shore of Spain was clear. Mel was sure that a trail of artifacts would soon lead him to the ata's mother load. He imagined a long road. The wall of 900 silver bars crowned by the bronze cannons fallen from the ship. He knew that if we found the cannons we would probably find the rest of the ship because in all the previous wrecks we worked on, the cannons were right on top of the main pile. Mel knew it from the ata. original documents that on the cover above the silver bars carried 22 of the precious bronze cannons.

Bronze cannons could shoot farther with more accuracy than most other cannons of the time, so they were very expensive and not on all ships. only on the most

valuable

ships, but in all his years of treasure hunting, Mel had never found one. I remember him telling me that he had looked up probably a thousand stories of bronze cannons and that he was really starting to wonder if bronze cannons had ever been made because every single one of them turned out to be iron to the diver who was able to find it in a cannon. toua bronze.

Mel offered a $10,000 reward year after year. Mel continued digging mailboxes along Aacha's southeast debris trail, mile after mile of largely empty holes, he found no sign. of a cannon or the expected mother charge, you know, it's the cliché of looking for a needle in a haystack, but I think it's even more difficult than that because the haystack is 10 Mi long, it's not just a bunch of hay, it is a 10 m long Pile of Hay in July 1975 Mel Sun Durk, now captain of the dive boat North Wind, was tired of crawling along the bottom of the sea and decided to hit the road on a hunch.

Durk had the idea that if you lined up the anchor with the shore of Spain and he just followed that line to see that you should be able to find the main stack of TOA and he decided Well, I'm going to skip all this space and jump very far away. Di and underwater cameraman Pat Kleene were aboard the North. wind with duck so he puts on the mask and uh and fins and he dives and suddenly we hear this scream and the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is that there are sharks out there, they caught him, but when you look closer you see him doing this, oh, here, here, he had the biggest smile on his face you've ever seen and now we can hear him yelling cannons, cannons, we have cannons down here, sure enough, when we got there, there were these. five beautiful bronze cannons sitting on top of each other dad was on Cloud9 finally got his bronze cannons Melb believed he was just a step away from the richest Salvage Hall ever recorded oh yeah we were sure that was what we had hidden the big one stack and the next day we were going to find the rest, but just as Mel and his team were celebrating the Dirk's Triumph disaster, the Fishers suffered their own shipwreck.

The north wind sank into the night. Durk, his wife Angel, and diver Rick Gage drowned. Mel had paid a high price for his treasure dreams. If there was ever a time in the entire AOA quest that my father would have even thought about giving up, it would have been right after the tragedy with Durk and Angel's death in his house. Dolor Mel and his family stopped the search for the sunken treasure and thought long and hard about whether to continue or not. You know, Dirk gave us a big clue by finding those bronze cannons and pointed us in the right direction of where to go looking. the main stack was his life's work, so yes, of course, we would continue.

It was two months before Mel was ready to restart the search for the aacha's riches as a monument, actually increasing our determination to find them. Dirk Mel raised the bronze cannons of the ata hoping to find the mother charge of 900silver bullion below or perhaps nearby, but there was no sign that Mel's Treasure Trail was well established southeast from the anchor to the Bank of Spain and up to the Canyons, surely Mel just had to do it. follows the trail every time we become logical like well we have this now this lines up we find the anchors we find the bank of Spain we find the cannons oh there's nothing it should be there but no years have passed while Mel kept looking for the motherload and all the While Aacha was taunting him with beautiful artifacts, we found 27 pieces of this beautiful jeweled gold belt 300 feet away over a period of a week, it was like a little trail that said here I am, come and get me the aacha taunted Mel for eight more years as each new trail dried up, then Hope's set in 1983, Mel, Cain and Di Andy's son, mroi had found a long trail of artifacts dropped from the aacha when one day The hurricane destroyed it.

We found a square iron spike from Atocha, so I plotted it on the map and drew a line back to the canyons and that started what we called our line, this new trail was on one side of the established line, we found a hoop of barrel with a couple of coins embedded in it, some large ballast stones and then suddenly, copper ingots. Andy and his diving partner Greg worked along the new trail for 2 and a half years. Could the mother load really be at the end and we find hundreds of silver? coins silver plates more copper ingots silver spoons a wonderful array of treasures now we are, we are flying high now the next day, July 20, 1985 Andy Mroi made a dive he would remember for the rest of his life all I saw was wavy sand Nothing of any interest.

I turned around and I felt a tap on my shoulder and it wasn't just a hey, but he was hitting me hard and I turned around and looked at Greg and I saw his face and his eyes widened. It came out of his head and I thought: I know what you just saw, show me what you just saw and it was a wall that was about 3T high, it was 75 feet and about 20 feet wide, it was the mother load of the Atocha and I was looking at silver bars this time it wasn't just two or three silver bars but hundreds just like Mel had imagined and I walked over, touched one and took the first silver bar and held it on my knees and felt how heavy it was. and it was like pinching yourself in a dream when you chose that Barrow and you just wanted to swim to the surface and shout to the world what we had just discovered.

This was the Mel Fisher moment He had been dreaming of for over 16 years, but how could he know? Today was finally the day they radioed that they had found the treasure. Dad was not there, they couldn't find him. They had been trying to call him. Where is Mel? We found out you know we have it. We have to tell Mel that we couldn't locate him, so we set out to find him in blissful ignorance of the important news. He had gone shopping and we stopped for a quiet drink in the office. the whole team was ready to celebrate that they had found the treasure but they couldn't find Mel finally we called the radio station said Noel, they found the mother load and he has to come to work right now, he has his diving equipment under the umbrella and walking in the rain to the front of the museum which is now bubbling, I mean bursting at the seams of people and photographers and the local reporters were already there, it was quite chaos from that moment on you had a smile on your face for about a week it didn't disappear here we are in July July 20 ex exactly exactly 10 years before my brother's death and C called the radio and said dad put the charts away, I already have it.

I have the motherboard and it was actually 10 years from the day of the accident that we found the main battery, so I think he was there helping us. I have to be the person to tell Mel what his dream was like. Well I have a bunch of silver bars and uh it's like a reef there are uh bars scattered all over the reef and I said it's more beautiful than what you told us it would look like Mel surprised us a little at first. I've been doing it most of My life I was looking for this accident and all of a sudden there it was, so the initial reaction was: what are we going to do now?

You know, and it was still a little surreal, hard to believe because after hearing that today is the day every day for 17 years it's like a child crying W Mel told a journalist today it seems like we've reached the end of the rainbow and we saw the pot of gold everyone wanted to shake your hand everyone wanted to give you a hug everyone wanted a free piece of the treasure obtained from the gold coins that you are giving away today uh there were people who claimed to be related to me that I had never met in my entire life life the legendary wealth of the aacha was true and she was as rich as M said it would cost more than 500 million dollars dad is one of the few people who has achieved his dreams in his life Mel Fisher was the most successful treasure hunter in the world world uh this one weighs 88 pounds, it's big in just a few months Mel He had over 80,000 pounds of silver and gold, 30 chests full of silver coins and 350 uncut emeralds stacked in his museum.

The problem was that no bank would accept that much silver the first year we had this whole museum, this whole floor with stacks of silver ingots. We could only stack them about 5D because otherwise the floor would break. Fisher followed his dreams, was successful in his pursuit and lived to enjoy his good fortune. He died in 1998 surrounded by his family. He never stopped working on the aacha as he believed he had. twice as much treasure remained undiscovered his family continues their treasure hunt today we are still searching for the rest of the mother cargo that we have not yet found working once again in The clues left by the Spanish could lead them to unimaginable riches dad was sure There would be emeralds in Atocha.

He had seen a copy of a letter that this guy in the new world wrote to his brother in Spain saying that he had put a 70 pound box on board. So far we found about 6 pounds, so there are another 64 pounds. At least out there alone that box of emeralds is worth a billion dollars and I'm sure there is more than one box for me. It's something I always say: you have to keep looking and we will find it. It's out there. We're just going to go look for it and I think we're going to find it today, today is the day.