WHO WANTS TO DIVE FOR TREASURE

[Zodiacdiverdave]

Thanks Sea Hunter, onions are very,very rare in these parts but they do exist if you know where to look. I am sure you will eventually locate a few nice bottles on your job. I will keep looking on this forum to see them.
A couple of buddies and I went to St. Augustine last year to dive the old anchorages by the fortress but found out that there was no diving aloud in the harbour. Bummer!
Good luck with the treasure recovery.

ZDD

 

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[piratediver]

ZDD: nice stuff there. I worked with Bob McKinnon on Cape Breton for a while, great diving and incredible wrecks. As you know the Treasure Trove Act which allowed commercial projects has been wiped out due to pressure by the archeo-Taliban. Now rather than being excavated by carefully monitored firms, all those sites will be picked over by clandestine operators, another attempt at in situ preservation destined to destroy the very resource it is supposedly designed to protect. Pathetic.


Pirate Diver

 

[mad4wrecks]

ZDD wrote: A couple of buddies and I went to St. Augustine last year to dive the old anchorages by the fortress but found out that there was no diving aloud in the harbour. Bummer!


What??


Tom

 

[Zodiacdiverdave]

ZDD: nice stuff there. I worked with Bob McKinnon on Cape Breton for a while, great diving and incredible wrecks. As you know the Treasure Trove Act which allowed commercial projects has been wiped out due to pressure by the archeo-Taliban. Now rather than being excavated by carefully monitored firms, all those sites will be picked over by clandestine operators, another attempt at in situ preservation destined to destroy the very resource it is supposedly designed to protect. Pathetic.


Pirate Diver

A Friend of mine Tom Dickie dove on the Le Chameau for Mr McKinnon and in return he got to keep 5 of the 8L coins he had recovered. Bob gave him a letter of authenticity for them and Tom eventually gave me one of the coins. Nice
The Treasure Trove act will only cause the province to loose artifacts. It is the archaeologists that don't want to work with the divers they just want to sit in their ivory towers and cast legislation to keep everyone else of the wrecks. They know they will never get funding to do real work underwater. Any way that act sucks, this is why we don't dive on wrecks, we just have had allot of luck finding gold on the bottom just swimming around.
ZDD

 

[Zodiacdiverdave]

ZDD wrote: A couple of buddies and I went to St. Augustine last year to dive the old anchorages by the fortress but found out that there was no diving aloud in the harbour. Bummer!


What??


Tom

Yea, I hope we weren't screwed over. I tried to get some info on diving their prior to leaving but I had no luck When we arrived we talked to a person who runs a nice nautical antique store and the told us this, so then we headed for the LDS and they told us the same thing. They also told us that we couldn't take bottles older then 50 years any where in the state.
ZDD

 

[seniyajw]

This I would suggest that the ether in the vessel ran aground in a storm, and broke in pieces, and the waves had an impact on the entire coast of sand cover makes it impossible for the Spaniards soon to restore ... ... Or maybe they would not save because they do not want to get caught, all that contraband ... ...

 

[inletsurf]

You guys are killing it!!!! Incredible, Awesome stuff!!!

 

[stevemc]

Scott, some really nice finds! Looks like it has been real calm, and I see predictions for at least a week of calm and westerly breezes. Through Tuesday anyway, it might be East winds on Wed. I will be back over Monday, took care of most of the business over here. Thanks for the help! I will call you when I am over. Steve.

 

[SEAHUNTER]

Hi Steve
Give me a call when you get to town. Here is a nice coin Mike brought out of the last hole.

 

[SEAHUNTER]

Mike's coin after partial cleaning.

 

[SEAHUNTER]

Here is one I found in the last hole.

 

[N.J.THer]

Nice pictures Seahunter

I've notice you post pictures after a partial cleaning which I assume you are doing on the boat. How are you cleaning them? You may have already covered this somewhere in this 12 page thread and if so I apologize.

Thanks
NJ

PS BTW congrats on your latest finds.

 

[SEAHUNTER]

Hello N.J. Ther
Thank you and here are a couple more. Mike and I each found one in the last hole.
It was our fifth hole and we were starting to think we might get skunked. All coins are cleaned by standard industry practices. Trade secrets. lol.

 

[N.J.THer]

Lol..fair enough. They come out nice and quickly. If I ever find the mother load off the OBX or NJ I will drive down to FL and haunt you until you give up your secret.

Good luck on the next hole.

NJ

 

[SEAHUNTER]

This mornings coins after partial cleaning.

 

[Zodiacdiverdave]

Nice Scott, keep em coming. Hope to see some more yellow soon.
ZDD

 

[SEAHUNTER]

Mike and Dustin just brought up five nice coins out of the last hole.

 

[SEAHUNTER]

Dustin just brought up another.

 

[stevemc]

Fantastic Scott!!!! You guys are really doing good. I will call you in the next day or so. Lynn and I will be over there Monday late, or Tuesday most likely.

 

[SEAHUNTER]

Sounds good Steve. Here are four more we just brought up.