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3. Deep Sea Treasure Finds
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A treasure hunter is a person who, as either a vocation or avocation, searches for sunken, buried, lost, or hidden treasure and other artifacts.

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• Deep-Sea Treasure Hunters by Ramona Rivera D eep-sea diving is a dangerous but fascinating activity. Some people dive for fun or sport, and some make a career out of hunting for sunken treasure. These types of career divers fall into one of two categories: those who want to study their discoveries and those who want to sell the treasures they find.

Historical[edit]

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• Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823, Italian). Sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He removed with great skill the colossal bust of Ramesses II, commonly called 'the Young Memnon' later shipped to England. He expanded his investigations to the great temple of Edfu, visited Elephantine and Philae, cleared the great temple at Abu Simbel of sand (1817), made excavations at Karnak, and opened up the sepulchre of Seti I (still sometimes known as 'Belzoni's Tomb'). He was the first to penetrate into the second pyramid of Giza, and the first European in modern times to visit the oasis of Bahariya. He also identified the ruins of Berenice on the Red Sea.^[1]
• Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890, German). He argued for the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer and was an important excavator of Troy and of the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. He is considered by many to have been the 'father of historical archaeology.'^[2]
• Mel Fisher (1922-1998, American). Best known for finding the wreck of the SpanishgalleonNuestra Señora de Atocha in 1985. The estimated $450 million cache recovered, known as the 'Atocha Motherlode,' included 40 tons of gold and silver and some 100,000 Spanish silver coins (pieces of eight), gold coins, Colombian emeralds, golden and silver artifacts, and 1000 silver bars.
• Robert F. Marx (1936-2019, American). A pioneering scuba diver best known for his work with shipwrecks and sunken treasure. Considered controversial for his frequent and successful forays into treasure hunting. E. Lee Spence described him as 'the true father of underwater archaeology.'^[3]
• John Chatterton (b. 1951, American). The 1991 discovery and subsequent identification of the German submarine U-869, off the coast of New Jersey, has been the subject of several television documentaries including Hitler's Lost Sub, a two-hour special for the popular NOVA series on PBS. The same story was the subject of a book by Robert Kurson, called Shadow Divers. The movie rights have been purchased by 20th Century Fox. Chatterton has made over 160 dives to the wreck of the SS Andrea Doria and worked two seasons on the fabled treasure galleon Nuestra Señora de la Pura y Limpia Concepcion.^[4] In 2008, Chatterton and his partner discovered and identified the wreck of the Golden Fleece off of the North coast of the Dominican Republic. The ship was that of Joseph Bannister, a pirate captain of the late 18th century. The discovery of the Golden Fleece was chronicled by writer Robert Kurson in his 2015 book Pirate Hunters.
• John Mattera (b. 1962) is a writer and American shipwreck explorer and the subject of the book Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson. Pirate Hunters is the story of two US divers, John Chatterton and John Mattera, finding the lost pirate ship Golden Fleece of Captain Joseph Bannister in the waters off the Dominican Republic in 2008. Mattera first became a certified diver in 1976, exploring the North Atlantic, he was an early pioneer of the shipwrecks in the waters around New York and New Jersey, performing penetration and decompression dives long before technical diving had a name. From the late 1970s on exploring some of the most famous shipwrecks of the northeast, with over sixty dives on the SS Andrea Doria and working two seasons on the fabled treasure galleon Nuestra Señora de la Pura y Limpia Concepcion, Guadalupe, Tolosa, San Josef.^[5]
• Philip Masters (1937-2007, American). Led the hunt for Blackbeard the pirate's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge. His company, Intersal, Inc., under permit with the State of North Carolina, found the wreck in November 1996 while searching for the El Salvador. He was also part of the crew that salvaged HMS Feversham, a British warship that sank off Nova Scotia in 1711.^[6] In April 2007 he received the prestigious Old North State Award for 'outstanding public service to the State of North Carolina and the community.'^[7][8] After Masters' death, Intersal continued the search for the El Salvador near Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina.^[9]
• Brent Brisben (American). Best known for ownership and salvage of the 1715 Treasure Fleet. Brisben made headlines worldwide in 2015 when he and his crew recovered 4.5 Million Dollars worth of gold coins from the 1715 Fleet on the 300th anniversary of the sinking of the fleet.
• E. Lee Spence (b. 1947, American). A pioneer in underwater archaeology, he is noted for his expertise on shipwrecks and sunken treasure. Born in Germany to an American spy master, Spence writes and edits reference books as well as magazines (Diving World, Atlantic Coastal Diver, Treasure, Treasure Diver, and Treasure Quest), and publishes magazines (ShipWrecks, Wreck Diver); and a published photographer. Spence was 12 when he found his first five shipwrecks.^[10][11] Spence has salvaged over $50 million in valuable artifacts^[12] and was responsible, through his archival research, for the location of the wrecks of the side-paddle-wheel steamers Republic^[13] and Central America.^[14][15]
• Captain Robert MacKinnon (b. 1950, Canadian). Known for finding the wreck of the Auguste in 1977. Covered in an issue of National Geographic 77-78. The estimated value of artifacts said to be worth hundreds of millions. Auguste was a full-rigged sailing ship which sank at Aspy Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in 1761 while carrying exiles from the fall of New France. Auguste was a former French privateer ship which had been captured by the British and converted to a merchant ship.^[16]
• Martin Bayerle (b. 1951, American). Finder of the legendary shipwreck RMS Republic, an in-progress recovery for what may be the greatest treasure recovery of all time, The Tsar's Treasure, estimated to be worth in excess of $2 billion in gold coin, gold and silver bars, circulated coin and passenger valuables.
• Tommy Gregory Thompson (b. 1952, American, currently held in jail). Known to lead the Columbus-America Discovery Group of Ohio at finding the wreck of the SS Central America and recovery of several tons of gold from it, jailed for default investors/creditors by US Marshalls.^[17]
• H. Charles Beil (b. 1959, American). Known for finding multiple smaller treasures and unknown ghost towns across America. Covered in an issue of Western and Eastern Treasures 2013. Has documented thousands of lost towns, mines and lost treasures at Treasure Illustrated. Known for debunking the Dents Run Gold Legend, Trabucco Gold Legend and the Legend of the Lost Dutchman Mine and other well known treasure legends in America.
• Jeff MacKinnon (b. 1977, Canadian) Known for recovering treasure from various historical shipwreck sites while utilizing the recovery operations to provide enhanced therapy for veterans who suffer from different forms of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and TBI (Traumatic Brain injury).

Fictional[edit]

Fictional characters include:

• Jim Hawkins, the protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1881 novel, Treasure Island
• Allan Quatermain, a hunter and adventurer, the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines
• Fred C. Dobbs, the protagonist of B. Traven's 1927 novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and the movie of the same name.
• Bilbo Baggins, protagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit
• Rouge the Bat, A treasure hunter from the Sonic The Hedgehog series, she often tries to steal the Master Emerald and works for G.U.N.
• Tintin, the protagonist of the Hergé's 1943 French comic book Red Rackham's Treasure
• Scrooge McDuck, uncle of Donald Duck and protagonist of Uncle Scrooge and Ducktales.
• Harry Steele, the protagonist of the 1954 movie Secret of the Incas
• Indiana Jones, a professor of archaeology and adventurer, and the protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise of adventure films: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), its prequelIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), and its sequels Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Jones is notable for his trademark bullwhip, fedora, leather jacket, and fear of snakes. Portrayed by Harrison Ford.
• Wario, founder and boss of Warioware inc., Mario's rival and a treasure hunter and the main protagonist of Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, Wario Land 2, Wario Land 3, Wario Land 4, Wario Land: Shake It!, Wario: Master of Disguise, and Wario World.
• Lara Croft, an archeologist and title character of the popular Tomb Raider series of games. Portrayed by Angelina Jolie in two movies based on the game franchise, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life.
• Benjamin Franklin Gates, the protagonist of the National Treasure franchise of adventure films: National Treasure (2004) and its sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007). Portrayed by Nicolas Cage.
• Dirk Pitt, a marine archeologist and protagonist of a series of books written by Clive Cussler. Portrayed by Matthew McConaughey in the film Sahara.
• Nathan Drake, or 'Nate', the protagonist of the video game series Uncharted, which includes four main games: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End.
• Ben Finnegan, the protagonist of the 2008 film Fool's Gold.
• Locke Cole from Final Fantasy VI is a blend of treasure hunter and thief, and tends to call himself a treasure hunter... especially when accused and/or caught in the act of theft.

References[edit]

1. ^Chisholm 1911. sfn error: no target: CITEREFChisholm1911 (help)
2. ^'Heinrich Schliemann: Improbable Archaeologist'. The BAS Library. 2015-08-24. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
3. ^Spence, E. Lee. Spence's Guide to South Carolina. Nelson Southern Printing: Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, 1976.
4. ^Kurson, Robert (2015). Pirate Hunters. Random House. ISBN9781400063369.
5. ^Kurson, Robert (2015). Pirate Hunters. Random House. ISBN9781400063369.
6. ^Martin, Douglas. 'Philip Masters, True Amateur of History, Dies at 70'. The New York Times. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
7. ^'Phil Masters Receives Old North State Award'. newspapers.digitalnc.org. The Shoreline. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
8. ^'Old North State'. governor.nc.gov. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
9. ^'Intersal, Inc'. Intersal, Inc. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
10. ^Warner, Eugene (April 1970). 'Diver Lee Spence'. Sandlapper. Columbia, SC: 40–43.
11. ^Hatch, Katherine. 'Treasure Diver.' Treasure World. February–March 1972, p. 44-45.
12. ^King, Charles. 'About the Author' (p. 517) in E. Lee Spence, Treasures of The Confederate Coast: the 'Real Rhett Butler' & Other Revelations. Narwhal Press: Charleston/Miami, 1995.
13. ^Nesmith, Jeff. 'Ocean Treasure Company Has a Murky HistoryArchived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine.' Cox News Service: 3 June 2007.
14. ^'Treasure.' Life. March 1987.
15. ^'Milliard-Skatten.' Vi Menn. November 1989. p. 4-7.
16. ^Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast.
17. ^[1]

Bibliography[edit]

• Tolstikov, Vladimir; Treister, Mikhail (1996). The Gold of Troy. Searching for Homer's Fabled City. Harry N. Abrams. ISBN0-8109-3394-2. A catalog of the artifacts Schliemann excavated at Troy, with photographs.
• Wood, Michael (1987). In Search of the Trojan War. New American Library. ISBN0-452-25960-6.

External links[edit]

• Two firms seek ship, Carolina Coast Online
• Treasure hunter in race to uncover ship of riches, Google
• Philip Masters, True Amateur of History, Dies at 70, New York Times

Underwater Treasure Hunters

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If you are interested in the ongoing controversy between underwater treasure hunt on the one side, and preserving and surveying wrecks as important archeological sites on the other side, Frank Pope's 'Dragon Sea' may just be the definite book on the subject. Truth be told, when I first saw the book, the cover art suggested this was romance or adventure fiction and I only picked it up because it also showed a diver. The hard cover's full title, 'Dragon Sea: A True Tale of Treasure, Archeology and Greed off the Coast of Vietnam' sort of reinforced that notion (as does, I later found out, the paperback version's revised 'Dragon Sea: A True Story of Intrigue, Treasure and Adventure Beneath the Waves' cover). So the controversy apparently even extended to finding an appropriate title.

Dragon Sea, however, is an exceedingly serious and very well written book describing the recovery of a large amount of 15th century Vietnamese porcelain and pottery from a wreck off Vietnam in the South China Sea. The dive site is deep, 220 feet, the conditions challenging, the origins of the wreck unknown, and the cargo of great archeological interest. Learning about such an involved recovery effort alone would make for fascinating reading, but 'Dragon Sea' presents it all with several twists.

First, while the history of Chinese porcelain is very well documented, almost nothing is known about Vietnamese ceramics and art. That's because of Vietnam's turbulent history that wiped out much of its cultural heritage. As a result, learning about techniques, timelines and styles is of great importance to the Vietnamese. Second, there's the allure of searching for treasure and plundering wrecks once they are found versus mounting attempts to preserve such wrecks as cultural heritage. Unfortunately, enforcement of those noble goals is almost impossible, and surveys and preservation are very expensive. So why can't the two sides join forces, with treasure hunters financing officially sanctioned recoveries and performing them in conjunction with legitimate archeologists, splitting the proceeds, with part being sold and part exhibited in museums? This is what Dragon Seas is all about, the tale of such a cooperative effort.

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The book is organized into three parts, one introducing the characters and challenge, the second the actual recovery, and the third on what happened afterwards. The two principal characters in the book represent the opposing forces in the conflict, forces that join in an uneasy cooperation. On the one side you have Mensun Bound, an acclaimed British marine archeologist at Oxford University with an interesting background (born on the Falkland Islands, educated in the US, and a Fellow of St Peter's College), a record of major underwater archeological achievement, involvement in the Discovery TV series 'Lost Ships', and also a mentor to author Frank Pope. On the other side is Malaysian businssman Ong Soo Hin, a mix of 'cultured British charm and Chinese entrepreneurial zeal.' Ong becomes interested in shipwreck salvage as an investment opportunity, a hunch that seems justified when the salvage of the Dutch East India Company ship Geldermalsen results in the second largest auction Christie's ever had. So when local fishermen start recovering what seems like ancient Vietnamese ceramics with nets and rakes, Ong sees a golden opportunity. He establishes himself as an 'ethical salvager' by hiring Bound and setting up a mutually beneficial coalition of usually opposing forces.

The second, and largest, part of the book describes the 1999 salvage effort itself, starting with building a team and actually finding the wreck. There are numerous challenges due to the 220-foot depth that makes open-circuit scuba unfeasible. The depth and size of the project requires a whole flotilla of ships as well as a saturation diving setup, the kind that oil companies employ. Here we learn of the competing priorities of time, technology, safety and cost, with Bound, the divers, and Ong all pulling in different directions. There's interesting detail on saturation diving, weather conditions, near fatal storms, and any number of personality conflicts, and an emerging wealth of Vietnamese ceramics and its puzzling history.

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The final part of the book deals with the aftermath of the recovery in 2000 with, again, diverging goals. Bound, the archeologist, seeks to preserve, document, publish (and fend off competing archeologists). Ong, the businessman, seeks a return on his investment, eventually choosing a small San Francisco-based auction house that had recently been acquired by eBay (the auction took place in October of 2000. The reality is sobering and leaves one wondering if partnerships with such different priorities are possible at all.