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...When I found out about the bombing, I was petrified, and I didn’t go outside all day,” Watson said. “I was in my apartment, but the night before I was a metro stop away from Atocha...
Authorities, however, have yet to file charges against Fisher, who at 75 is in poor health. The treasure hunter, who received widespread fame with the discovery of the 1622 wreck of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha in 1985, says he no longer personally dives for the coins. But Fisher is adamant that he has sold no fakes. "The whole thing is absolutely baloney," he says. "There are thousands of different markings on these coins, and no one could ever counterfeit one of them because they are all different. These coins are absolutely real." A similar controversy over silver...
...history was the $1 million worth of salvaged gold draped around Mel Fisher's well-tanned neck. He is the 65-year- old treasure hunter whose 20-year search for sunken bullion finally paid off three years ago, when he discovered the main cargo of the Nuestra Seora de Atocha, a booty-laden Spanish galleon that foundered in stormy seas off Florida's Key West in 1622. Last week Fisher watched as more than 400 of the hundreds of thousands of artifacts his divers recovered from the Atocha and other wrecks were auctioned off at Christie's. The $2.9 million...
...pirate knows, dividing the booty can be tougher than finding it. So Professional Treasure Hunter Mel Fisher has wisely relied on a high-tech mediator. Last year Fisher discovered the sunken loot of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank off the Florida coast in 1622. He retrieved 118,343 items, including emeralds, gold bars and silver coins, with a potential worth estimated by Fisher at $170 million. Last week, after a 22- member committee assigned a value to each item, Fisher fed the data into an IBM computer, which apportioned the goods among...
...barrage of criticism has had its effect on big-time treasure hunters; even Fisher now includes archaeologists in his crew. At the Atocha site, Archaeologist Duncan Mathewson is carefully noting the position of each artifact and labeling each find. He has marked the site with grids, using yellow tape and pipes, and pinpointed each piece of the ancient hull...