South Sea mariner
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SSM, About Kanacki--- He was born in New Guinea of Auatrailian parents but there was an Immigation foul up, so HE could not claim Austrailan citizenship He grew up in new Guinae and knew quite a bit about the various tribes and their psychology , and so was hired as The political officer, He was the political officer for the drillers, nick named Crow and hardluck.They had many adventures and finally ended up at Rabual.where they drilled the active volano across the bay. Since the mining co was sort of capital they settled for the diference in shares, then they hit it,. Overnight they became millionares. but unlike others they did not go on a drunken spree, but under the tutalige of Hardluck opened a bank for the Islands,which has paid of. Kancaki eventualy bought a three masted sailing ship which he called the Drumbeat, and coninued his career by sailing throughout the Islands with an all girl grew and crow. Crow opened a bar on Magnetic island off of Austraila They are investors of an under seas mining area
They eventually branched out into international treasue hunting, which inluded many adventures in Peru..
They became respectable treasure hunters. Hardluck hired a lovely girl fo search the Vatican files, including Tayopa, but the archives had been prughed too well. She is noow a resaeacher for the \United Nations and was recently married to a professional foot ball player. They are presently under a confidentually order by the backers of an interational treasure hunting group to not post on, or frequent any treasure foruns.
This is a quick synopsisYou may have encounterd them, or heard of them in yout trips.
I coined the phrase the 'unholy trio'. and am proud to concider them my frends,
Any any of them would make an excellent movie of their life
My apologies as I can only post as work permits. The coffee will do nicely. First of all I know very little about treasure hunting or treasure hunters. Although I have learned at little with 2 occasions I have come across these adventurous characters.
The first time was about 10 years ago. My services was used to pilot a salvage vessel along the Magellan strait of cape Horn. A vessel carrying large quantity of gold from a gold mine was sunk off Cape horn. At first the insurance companies thought the whole incident was an insurance scam. However through Lloyd's they contracted bunch of rag tag marine salvage experts to salvage the shipwreck that was sunk the year before. I was not privies to exact details as that is how these operations work. you have your job to and that is it. The divers seem a rag tag bunch of fellows old hands at the game. One thing I sure did not envy there task. Doing a deep water salvage operation of cape horn. My task was to get them there and provided back service, such as experience I had in region. I grew up navigating cape horn as my father was a ships captain. I followed in the trade. I have sailed cape Horn 280 odd times in my career in both directions. The men that dived on the wreck had amazing good fortune. We hit a perfect patch of weather for about 6 days. Never in all the times I had been down there encountered such balmy weather.
Lady luck was on their side, The Insurers got 98% of their gold and paid bonus to all involved in the salvage operation bonus on a successful venture. The Miner company had their payout from the insurer.
On our return trip playing card with the divers one of them while searching the ocean floor for this modern shipwreck. Discovered the remains of much older shipwreck. He discovered the name on the hulk SS Isis what you might as this diver found interesting This ship was actually once called the "Komos" renamed Isis 2 years before it sank off cape horn. It belonged to a German Shipping company.
There is a 1902 newspaper account that a ship SS iSIS was Wrecked in the Strait of Magellan with a cargo of gold and silver worth 150,000 pounds. The treasure was originally recovered from the SS Sakkara that was lost the previous month in the region states in route from Valparaiso (Chile) to Hamburg with a cargo of gold and silver, the ship ran aground N of Guamblin Island, Chile, no casualties. The German SS Isis came back to take the gold to Germany by was lost on the way back in the Strait of Magellan.
The cargo the Diver explained that 1500000 British pounds. In 1902 gold was worth 3.13 British pounds. Today's value of the gold would be worth around 62 million dollars. No doubt you can imagine the gleam in this mans eyes as he told me the value of it. Yet I do not know if he followed up on the salvage of that shipwreck he found by accident while doing this salvage operation.
There are littoral thousands of shipwrecks around Cape Horn. you can see just some marked on this map below.
The killer has always as it has always been the weather. The divers at the time got a dream run of weather. The last time I saw that type of weather was about 30 odd years ago as kid, Even then it was never as good as those 6 days.
Mal
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