Hidden $2,400 coin makes dives to the Vandy a treasure hunt
Updated: 2009-11-29 21:10:00
By Kevin Lollar - News-press.com
Documentary filmmaker Pat Clyne has hidden a $2,400 silver coin from the 17th-century Spanish galleon Atocha on the 523-foot Hoyt S. Vandenberg, and the rule is finders keepers. Clyne has done his share of treasure hunting: For more than 30 years, he worked for Mel Fisher, whose crews have salvaged more than $500 million in treasure from the Atocha and her sister ship the Margarita.The coin is in a black tin box with magnets on the back; whoever finds it can e-mail...
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From MTI
Voetboog was a three-mast flyboat, which left the port of Batavia (now Jakarta) for The Netherlands with a 109-member crew on board, the expedition leader Attila K. Szaloky told MTI. Owned by the Dutch East India Company, the Fluyt ship carried silk, spices, tea, Japanese and Chinese porcelain as well as nearly 180,000 pieces of Dutch golden ducats. The estimated value of the wreckage is about 1 billion dollars, he said. Sailing on the Atlantic,...
By Manta Klangboonkrong - The Nation
There's a cargo barge that a storm sent to the bottom of the Gulf of Thailand more than a century ago - and only recently has advanced scuba equipment allowed its secrets to be revealed. Fishermen found the iron steamboat Ruea Mail last year, 90 minutes by boat off Rayong's Klaeng district. Only about 10 divers have visited the completely intact vessel since then.
The government's Underwater Archaeology Division has the daunting task of protecting...
A logbook from the HMS Briton which mentions the island inhabited by the descendants of the mutinous crew of the Bounty has sold at auction.
On Saturday September 17 1814, his curling script recorded: “Several canoes came onboard.
“Found the island inhabited by the descendants of Mr F Christian. Mutinous crew of the Bounty settled here AD [...]
By Timothy O'Hara - Keys News.com
The remains of hundreds of shipwrecks line the Florida Keys reef tract. Their stories are the history of the Keys.Some wrecks have been identified, but many have not. The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and state archaeologist have spent thousands of dollars investigating the wrecks to determine their origin. The remains have become living museums the sanctuary chooses to leave in the waters so divers can enjoy them in their natural state, as opposed...
By Eric Gaertner - Muskegon Chronicle
The life of a valiant U.S. Coast Guard member and the sailing career of a 320-foot whale-back steamer came to a tragic end 75 years ago, leaving an unforgettable mark on Muskegon’ maritime history.On Nov. 30, 1934, the Henry Cort and her 25-man crew were tossed by large waves onto the north arm of the break wall at the Muskegon harbor and U.S. Coast Guard Surfman Jack Dipert was swept off into Lake Michigan during a rescue attempt. By the end...
By Lishan Chang - Taiwan Today
Readers might be surprised to learn that Taiwan has underwater archaeological treasures to rival the remains of the “Titanic,” wrecks of Spanish treasure galleons in the Caribbean and even the lost city of Atlantis, said by Plato to have sunk into the ocean “in a single day and night of misfortune.” he place to go to find out about these treasures is “Diving into History,” the island’ first-ever underwater...
The wreckage of the Rachel, a lumber schooner which ran aground in the 1920s or 30s, has been uncovered by tropical storm Ida.
When Tropical Storm Ida struck Nov. 10, the charred wooden hull reappeared on the beach six miles east of Fort Morgan.
The wreck is most likely to be the three-masted schooner Rachel, which ran [...]
From Dominican Today
The expedition headed by the renown treasure hunter Burt Webber to recover artifacts from the sunken Spanish ship "Solo Dios Gloria" has after almost one month begun to coax fine gold baubles and detailed silver items off the Atlantic Ocean floor, as the Hispaniola Venture salvage boat struggles to remain anchored in the season swells.He said the name of the sunken ship was determined from its bronze bell dated 1694, which he previously recovered, and noted that his...
250,000 artifacts have been recovered from the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship.
“Some artifacts are in a stone like coating and are concreted together,” explained Chief Conservator Sarah Watkins-Kenney. “We may not know what’s in them when they come up. Some objects, like ballast stones, don’t take long to conserve. Some, like cannons and [...]
By Randy Shore - Vancouver Sun
A B.C.-led team of archaeologists has discovered the wreck of a Klondike Gold Rush steamer perfectly preserved in the icy waters of Lake Laberge, north of Whitehorse.The vessel A.J. Goddard sank in a winter storm 108 years ago, leaving behind a snapshot of life during the frenzy of prospecting and mining that engorged the Yukon Territory and enriched the ports of Vancouver and Victoria during the late 1800s and early 1900s.The detritus littering the deck...
From Bangkok Post
About 18 meters below the sea off Rayong province, 15 divers from seven countries are exploring a wooden shipwreck.
The exploration is part of Unesco's six-week training on underwater cultural heritage preservation.The divers are from Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand.They have been picked for an underwater heritage protection programme organised by the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (Unesco)...
By Dan DeWitt - Tampa Bay.com
Considering the divers were looking for remains of an iron-hulled Civil War-era steamer, Tom Allyn's news was about as good as it could be."I found something — it's old and it's metallic,'' said Allyn, wearing a wet suit and standing in chest-deep water off Bayport Park on Thursday morning.Then, moments later, marine archaeologist Billy Morris surfaced with an update that topped Allen's."It's a piece of steam pipe,'' Morris said.That pipe, about 9 inches...
By Jesus Garcia Calero - ABC.es
Han bastado 48 horas. Ya nada impide que el convenio de los Ministerios de Cultura y Defensa se ponga en marcha y se permita a los buques cazaminas de la Armada colaborar con los arqueólogos para que no se vuelva a repetir un expolio como el que Odyssey pudo cometer en aguas del Estrecho de Gibraltar.Como ya publicó ABC, Defensa y Cultura acordaron en julio realizar intervenciones arqueológicas en colaboración con las Comunidades...
From Welt Online
Odyssey Marine Exploration has acquired a minority interest in SMM Project LLC, a company funded by a group of investors to bring together the exclusive licenses and skills of world renowned deep-ocean geologist Dr. Timothy McConachy of Bluewater Metals, the deep-ocean survey and exploration expertise of Odyssey, and the offshore coring and mining expertise of Robert Goodden. SMM Project LLC recently purchased a majority interest in Bluewater Metals Pty Ltd, an Australian...
From Sail the World.com
Federal Heritage Minister Peter Garrett today announced funding of $439,928 for projects that will protect the nation's underwater cultural heritage. A total of 25 projects across Australia will receive funding under the Historic Shipwrecks Program. 'The Historic Shipwrecks Program provides important financial assistance to state and territory agencies who manage, protect and raise awareness of historic shipwrecks on behalf of the Commonwealth,' Mr Garrett said....
By Steven V. Cronin - Press of Atlantic City
The Absecon Lighthouse was constructed to prevent shipwrecks. But stop by the lighthouse Thursday evening and the focus will be on what is probably the most famous shipwreck ever.Thursday is when the lighthouse operators unveil their newly acquired memorabilia and exhibit material related to the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic.The exhibit includes small pieces of debris from the ship, which sank on April 15, 1912, after striking an iceberg....
From BBC News
After a century buried in the Antarctic ice, a rare batch of whiskey which belonged to the polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton is to be recovered. So what might it taste like ?
It's been on the rocks for the last 100 years, buried under two feet of ice at the South Pole. Now the two cases of "Rare Old" brand Mackinlay and Co whisky are to be retrieved. A team of New Zealand explorers heading out in January have been asked by Whyte & Mackay, the company that now owns...