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...with magnetometers, devices that detect irregularities in the earth's magnetic field--anomalies caused by, among other things, iron cannons, armor or anchors. They used side-scan and sub-bottom sonar and even commissioned an aerial survey, but the search did not yield a verifiable Atocha remnant. Says Fay Feild, an engineer and consultant to Treasure Salvors, who designed a special magnetometer for Fisher: "With a magnetometer, even in a limited area, only one in 100 'hits' has anything to do with a wreck. With a side- scanner, it's one in a million...
...magnetometer hits--to identify what he calls the "mother lode," the ; main body of the ship's cargo. Even then, retrieving the treasure was difficult. The deeper waters off the Florida Keys are murky, the bottom heavily silted. Again, technology provided the solution. Several years earlier, Feild had devised a huge pair of fittings that resemble and are called mailboxes, and placed them over the propellers of one of Fisher's tugs, in effect directing the ship's backwash straight down and forming a clear vertical column of water extending to the sea floor. The mailboxes not only improved visibility...
...fish up treasure," says Treasure Salvors Vice President Bleth McHaley, "but it took us seven years to find it, and seven more years to establish our right to keep it." Finding it involved 400,000 miles of crisscrossing the ocean, towing special magnetometers developed by Treasure Salvors' Fay Feild, an electronics engineer. Occasionally, Fisher brought in seers, psychics and trained dolphins to break the technological tedium. There were thousands of fruitless dives into holes blown through 20 ft. of sand. And in 1975 there was tragedy. A week after the Fishers' oldest son Dirk discovered bronze cannons that...