- May 20, 2004
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- Minelab Excal 1000
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
July 3, 2004
SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA ? Ten years ago, an excited Kim Glaner went to show famed treasure hunter Mel Fisher some ship's rigging he discovered.
Fisher apparently was not as enthused about the find.
Instead, Glaner recalls that Fisher, who died in 1998, took him to a display of jewelry and said, "This is what you're looking for."
"He'd seen enough rigging," said the Orlando resident. "He wanted jewelry."
Thursday, Glaner and his 75-year-old father, Sterling, provided Fisher's daughter, Taffi Fisher Abt, with the type of items her late father had sought.
On Tuesday, the Glaners recovered items believed to be worth tens of thousands of dollars from a site known as the Cabin Wreck, just south of the Sebastian Inlet.
The items included an ornate intact silver cross more than 5 inches tall, an ornate gold bracelet, four elaborate silver forks with twisted handles tipped with dancing ladies, several pieces of a large silver platter with an intricate floral design, an intact olive jar neck and a small silver box.
The items will be on display at the Mel Fisher Treasure Museum, 1322 U.S. 1, Sebastian, this week.
Glaner said Friday he since has located another fork, additional pieces of the thin silver platter and a sounding weight, apparently used when the Spanish attempted a recovery effort at the site.
The Glaners' boat is working the remains of the Silver Plate Fleet that sank in a hurricane off the Treasure Coast in 1715. They and 19 other crews have subcontracted with the Mel Fisher Center and Museum in Sebastian, which holds a state salvage contract for the shipwreck.
Fisher Abt, director of the center and museum, said the weather conditions have been ideal for the crews this year.
"We've had wonderful visibility and the water is much warmer than it was last year," said Fisher Abt.
Glaner said he was using a map Tuesday showing where other items had been recovered at the wreck site. He decided he would look at one area where nothing had yet been discovered and with the help of a metal detector and blower, located the items under about six feet of sand and other material.
The first three times the metal detector went off because of buried beer cans, but the fourth time it lead him to the silver fork.
"I knew if the fork was there there had to be more, and sure enough, there was a lot more," said Glaner.
SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA ? Ten years ago, an excited Kim Glaner went to show famed treasure hunter Mel Fisher some ship's rigging he discovered.
Fisher apparently was not as enthused about the find.
Instead, Glaner recalls that Fisher, who died in 1998, took him to a display of jewelry and said, "This is what you're looking for."
"He'd seen enough rigging," said the Orlando resident. "He wanted jewelry."
Thursday, Glaner and his 75-year-old father, Sterling, provided Fisher's daughter, Taffi Fisher Abt, with the type of items her late father had sought.
On Tuesday, the Glaners recovered items believed to be worth tens of thousands of dollars from a site known as the Cabin Wreck, just south of the Sebastian Inlet.
The items included an ornate intact silver cross more than 5 inches tall, an ornate gold bracelet, four elaborate silver forks with twisted handles tipped with dancing ladies, several pieces of a large silver platter with an intricate floral design, an intact olive jar neck and a small silver box.
The items will be on display at the Mel Fisher Treasure Museum, 1322 U.S. 1, Sebastian, this week.
Glaner said Friday he since has located another fork, additional pieces of the thin silver platter and a sounding weight, apparently used when the Spanish attempted a recovery effort at the site.
The Glaners' boat is working the remains of the Silver Plate Fleet that sank in a hurricane off the Treasure Coast in 1715. They and 19 other crews have subcontracted with the Mel Fisher Center and Museum in Sebastian, which holds a state salvage contract for the shipwreck.
Fisher Abt, director of the center and museum, said the weather conditions have been ideal for the crews this year.
"We've had wonderful visibility and the water is much warmer than it was last year," said Fisher Abt.
Glaner said he was using a map Tuesday showing where other items had been recovered at the wreck site. He decided he would look at one area where nothing had yet been discovered and with the help of a metal detector and blower, located the items under about six feet of sand and other material.
The first three times the metal detector went off because of buried beer cans, but the fourth time it lead him to the silver fork.
"I knew if the fork was there there had to be more, and sure enough, there was a lot more," said Glaner.
