Blak bart
Gold Member
I know a cuban who was head of underwater archeology in cuba.....he defected, and owns an underwater boat cleaning business.....this guy knows the location of every major galleon that Castro wanted to excavate. He says havana harbor alone has billions in sunken gold, silver,and jewels !!A waiting room years ago I pivked up a Nat. Geo. to read and it featured Cuba 's wrecks and the weath of them.
Non Cuban divers (a hobby /passion/nonpirate type folk) were having a challenging time modding repairing and trying to cobble dive equipment.
No they couldn't remove any relics ect. But they were diving...
The government (Castro factored highly as he dove himself... ) kept the general public and non Cuban traffic in check regarding wreck salvage or really interest in wrecks.
Anyways I thought it sucked after reading that ; for the average Cuban when there was so much laying under water. And knowing the government wasn't going to recover it and pass it around. (what one would?)
I didn't know Cuba/Castro opened the door to recoveries , under watch and control ,of course...