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Despite all the high-tech tools, the ocean proved very reluctant to give up the Atocha's treasure. For 101 days in 1968, Fisher's divers combed an area near the Upper and Lower Matecumbe Keys for the ship, using as their guides a number of Spanish archival documents that referred to the lost galleon. Fisher's crew found lesser wrecks that yielded up sizable bounties, but the big one remained undiscovered...
...historical Spanish presence in Florida at the government archives in Seville, Spain, where Fisher was a frequent visitor. After poring over 50,000 pages of worm-eaten documents, Lyon turned up information that pointed the way to the Atocha: the original 17th century salvors' report indicated that the treasure ship could be found near the desolate Marquesas Keys, off Key West...
...Virgalona, hauled up his first Atocha finds, an anchor and three silver bars, some two miles or so from the site that Fisher had targeted. Says McHaley: "I wish we had never found them. It was a false lead that cost us years." The random wreckage from the lost ship had been scattered by a second hurricane centuries before. In the end, the main lode was found very near the reef where Fisher thought it would...
...salvaging, Fisher became a fabled local character on an island where there is considerable competition for such distinction. For years he lived in an old houseboat and drove a $600 used Mercury. He has made millions from finds smaller than the Atocha, some of them wrecks of its sister ship, but he has spent millions looking for the Atocha. Now he wears an estimated $12,000 worth of gold around his neck, including a Spanish doubloon, and he drives a Cadillac...
...Taffi and Kane, another son Kim, 29, helped recover the treasure. But the mom-and-pop hunt has had its dark side. Ten years to the day before last month's discovery, the Fishers' eldest son Dirk, 21, Dirk's wife and another diver were drowned when their salvage ship, the Northwind, capsized at night during a squall...