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The Treasure of the Atocha Arrives at the Dock, 1985

Mel Fisher Maritime Museum
2017 ж. 24 Қаз.
82 319 Рет қаралды
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After the July 20, 1985 discovery of the cargo hold of the Spanish 1622 galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha, the Treasure Salvors, Inc. vessel Dauntless returned to its home port of Key West, Florida with a large load of silver bars and chests of silver coins recovered in the first excavations at the shipwreck site. John and Judy Halas were at the dock and videotaped the Dauntless’ arrival and the unloading of the newly-discovered Atocha treasure. A copy of that video was donated to the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society Archives and is presented here.

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  • Truly another era. Grubby boat, derelict pick-up, butts and beer everywhere, no cops or archo nuts anywhere. Can we go back to 1985 ?

    @jeffhays1968@jeffhays19684 жыл бұрын

    • 1985?...I wish

      @babyrazor6887@babyrazor68873 жыл бұрын

    • In my mind, I'm still there.

      @davidm4160@davidm4160Ай бұрын

    • ​

      @dondean1309@dondean130910 күн бұрын

  • Its 2024 and I'm still enjoying it all. I to have a nice pendant and get lots of compliments when I wear it. Hope to see them find the Captains Srern with the best of the best!! Ty Beebe

    @tyronebeebe3544@tyronebeebe35442 ай бұрын

  • I love how Mel was going to give the state of Florida some then they wanted it all. *AND GOT NONE LOL!!!*

    @Ronbo710@Ronbo7102 жыл бұрын

    • Love that for them

      @MamaGator@MamaGator5 ай бұрын

  • Hahaha! First thing they did when they hit port!! Pass out the Budweiser!! 😂 the good ole days son!

    @The_Bass_Stunters@The_Bass_Stunters5 жыл бұрын

    • 😂😂😂😂

      @db2344@db23443 ай бұрын

    • American owned then, too. Great times.

      @brianboxwell3010@brianboxwell3010Ай бұрын

  • Now that's a great video Thank You for posting it... I new there was a video of this somewhere out there... I bet there is more too...Keep em coming PLEASE!

    @lphjr40@lphjr406 жыл бұрын

  • Ive got one of those babies around my neck!

    @helenpiciacchi6888@helenpiciacchi68884 жыл бұрын

    • Me too!! I feel so honored to own and wear such an amazing piece of history.

      @terracobb6149@terracobb6149 Жыл бұрын

  • Great Video! Thanks for sharing!!

    @caveman770@caveman7706 жыл бұрын

  • I was only in 5th grade when my teacher showed us this National Geographic documentary about Mel Fisher and the Nuestra Señora de Atocha. I'm glad that he won that battle with the US government. Cause the gold would of probably of been metaled down and we wouldn't see it ever again. Thank you for sharing a part of my history(I'm decedent from the Spanish who settled in St. Augustine Florida.)

    @1LEgGOdt@1LEgGOdt6 жыл бұрын

    • Silver

      @kiwiingenuity1677@kiwiingenuity167721 күн бұрын

  • My wife's uncle is with this crew - he just passed but before he did he shared some pretty cool stories with her family.

    @DavidAPride@DavidAPride3 жыл бұрын

    • No he wasn’t actually but of course people like you with their outrageous claims always seem to find their way to these comment sections.

      @ssherrierable@ssherrierable Жыл бұрын

    • @@ssherrierable huh? Do you know me or my wife's uncle? Were you a member of the crew? This is such a weird thing to say to someone you don't know...and why on earth would I lie about this?

      @DavidAPride@DavidAPride Жыл бұрын

  • I just finished the book. This is so cool to see. Wish that I could have been there!!!

    @93SA10@93SA10 Жыл бұрын

  • So amazing...how incredible it must be to have been a part of that!

    @RelicDog@RelicDog2 жыл бұрын

  • The best i ever seen❤🎉

    @olivergreiner-6180@olivergreiner-61809 ай бұрын

  • Steve Candela, who owns Key West Welding and is driving the crane was an early supporter of Mels'. He ended up with one of the cannons in his yard. He actually collects cannons and that was one of my first jobs for TS.

    @CaptainCraigKWMRZ@CaptainCraigKWMRZ4 ай бұрын

  • I am, as I type, wearing a necklace made from some of those silver bars. It's a pendant of the Atocha made from its silver 😊

    @stateofdisorder1@stateofdisorder16 жыл бұрын

    • Its probally fake.. im sorry

      @rogerbabzai9160@rogerbabzai91605 жыл бұрын

    • Don't listen to the haters that probably can't afford a real Atocha pendant! I too am wearing one of the two reale coins recovered by this crew! It's a grade one and comes with a signed COA from Mel Fisher himself dated from 1986 and has my coin pictured on it along with it's weight. Very cool stuff!

      @thecopperminer6175@thecopperminer61755 жыл бұрын

    • Got a ring

      @KirkLee1983@KirkLee19834 жыл бұрын

    • I too had a piece of eight but foolishly gave it to a man I USED to date

      @kimgierke7540@kimgierke75404 жыл бұрын

    • Just got mine too so cool

      @brucejohnson863@brucejohnson8633 ай бұрын

  • My Dad met Mel Fisher in Dallas TX back in the 60s at his Metal Detector Shop. This is what I was told by my Dad. Can anyone out there confirm that Mel Fisher had a Metal Detector Shop in Dallas?

    @lumpylumpy3931@lumpylumpy3931Ай бұрын

  • This is very satisfying

    @jonathanjackson9257@jonathanjackson92575 жыл бұрын

  • I love this stuff.....to me, this is just about as wonderful as the King Tut treasure. .........those coins start at about 3-5k EACH for the more worn away ones and up to 20-50k EACH for the really nice ones.

    @campguy@campguy3 жыл бұрын

    • and there are thousands and thousands of them.

      @campguy@campguy3 жыл бұрын

    • I have a Grade 1 - 8 reales around my neck 24/7.

      @terracobb6149@terracobb6149 Жыл бұрын

  • Epic discovery!

    @treasureexplorationandrese3712@treasureexplorationandrese371211 ай бұрын

  • Wow thank you this is history, I have the magazines but its not same thing. Totally amazing

    @michaelcoriglianol7197@michaelcoriglianol71974 жыл бұрын

  • Why are Atocha coins and silver so scarce and pricey but El Cazador coins are very available and affordable?

    @iamgabriel5823@iamgabriel582319 күн бұрын

  • Very cool video. I want that silver! 😜

    @mikehawk5106@mikehawk51062 жыл бұрын

  • My parents took me there in 1985 right after Seniora de atohca was discorverd!!! I'm from Michigan, so that was quite a road trip by car. I remember my dad actually meeting Mel, and he put a huge gold chain and Cross around my dad's neck for a picture!!!! Bucket list goal is to go back

    @troystarks575@troystarks575 Жыл бұрын

    • They are still working the site... And still hiring!

      @CaptainCraigKWMRZ@CaptainCraigKWMRZ4 ай бұрын

  • Does anyone know if this is from July 20th, 1985...the actual day that Kane and the crew found the mother lode after 16 years of searching? If so, they could not find Mel that day as he had gone out shopping and no one knew where he was. There were no cell phones back then so they had an announcement placed on the local radio which Mel heard and ran back to the shop. Kane told him to tear up the maps...we found it! Can you just imagine that day! After 16 years of searching, losing a son and daughter in law, and everything else Mel went through. Today, they are still pulling treasure from the ship and there still is another half billion unfound! Unreale!!...LOL!

    @Randy-ul5hy@Randy-ul5hy7 күн бұрын

  • Sweet! I have a feeling some went missing. No security but the keystone cops.

    @ts440s@ts440s4 жыл бұрын

  • some where made from melted coins, all stuck together....amazing

    @k.w.churchill4397@k.w.churchill43975 жыл бұрын

    • Gold is mine

      @michaelvanasejr5350@michaelvanasejr53503 ай бұрын

  • I bought a pendant from this shipwreck it’s so wicked cool

    @brucejohnson863@brucejohnson8633 ай бұрын

  • To think they were so close 10 years earlier what a find , these days forget it

    @cowboy68@cowboy683 жыл бұрын

  • Poor people who died on that that ship 😔

    @sandoval1977@sandoval19774 ай бұрын

  • Gold and Silver from the High Uintah Mountains in Utah

    @dpcustoms2608@dpcustoms26086 жыл бұрын

  • Hard to believe that divers, where the ability to get a breath is so crucial, would be so into cigarettes.

    @carseye1219@carseye1219 Жыл бұрын

  • What about the gold that is still out there,, are they looking for it?like 20 tons ?

    @warrenlouisiana2277@warrenlouisiana2277 Жыл бұрын

  • It's what dreams are made of...

    @JOMAR3@JOMAR35 жыл бұрын

  • hoping to join the crew in 2 years when I retire from public safety diving.Any current employees have recommendations or advice for me?

    @pipersmitty87@pipersmitty872 жыл бұрын

    • Ruckus Piper, try here: www.melfisher.com/SalvageOperations/JoinTheCrew.asp

      @MFMaritimeMuseum@MFMaritimeMuseum2 жыл бұрын

    • Yeah, don’t quit your day job is the best advice I can offer…

      @ssherrierable@ssherrierable Жыл бұрын

  • Yeah. I think/ since I was a Kid, Your taught in believing, if you find treasure it’s, Finders-Keepers. But that’s definitely not the case of some of these finds.

    @FastFit-8LbsINLessThen8mins@FastFit-8LbsINLessThen8mins2 жыл бұрын

  • What are those corrosion gray blocks?

    @db2344@db23443 ай бұрын

    • Silver ingots

      @chuckhartenstine6439@chuckhartenstine64392 ай бұрын

  • Where’s Mel?

    @chem3066@chem3066Ай бұрын

  • Todo español

    @alvarojoda3158@alvarojoda31585 жыл бұрын

  • This is what it was all about

    @wreckashore9283@wreckashore92832 жыл бұрын

  • How big of a news story was this when it first happened?

    @robertg305@robertg3053 жыл бұрын

    • Idk but I would have done everything in my power to keep it a secret. I would have brought back some scrap metal and hid all that booty below deck. NDA agreements would have been signed first and we would have figured it out alone. The government tried to rob them and lost thankfully…

      @ssherrierable@ssherrierable Жыл бұрын

    • Huge

      @chem3066@chem3066Ай бұрын

  • Wonder where is security in all of this. Someone can get whacked over the head and grab a gold bar.

    @marcorubio3496@marcorubio34965 жыл бұрын

    • That ls now.. then was a different story

      @rogerbabzai9160@rogerbabzai91605 жыл бұрын

    • Most of the time though they never find anything, so pirates would have a heck of a time waiting around. Plus guys willing to work that hard for find treasure probably would not be the type to play possum.

      @dangerdavefreestyle@dangerdavefreestyle5 жыл бұрын

    • @David miorgan agreed!!.

      @KirkLee1983@KirkLee19834 жыл бұрын

    • You wouldn’t make it 10 ft and someone would shoot you with a spear gun. Lol

      @Vernbubba@Vernbubba2 жыл бұрын

  • OK👍

    @zdnekpicha7956@zdnekpicha79562 ай бұрын

  • who wears short shorts? These guys do

    @nancynancydrew8503@nancynancydrew8503 Жыл бұрын

  • not a slay-queen or girl boss in site. just men drinking bud heavies and the women taking pictures and chatting. god i miss the 80's!

    @ct1762@ct17629 ай бұрын

    • What’s a slay queen

      @chem3066@chem3066Ай бұрын

  • 55

    @raymoore2381@raymoore23813 жыл бұрын

  • ALL OF THOSE COINS ARE MADE IN POTOSÍ, BOLIVIA! IT'S A TREASURE MADE WITH BLOOD

    @israorozco5796@israorozco57965 жыл бұрын

  • Was Mel a greedy bastard or did he make sure everyone helping on the ship became a millionaire?

    @Midwest10@Midwest1028 күн бұрын

  • Jacked Sparrows

    @benking2882@benking2882 Жыл бұрын

  • ❤❤❤💍🌴🌹⚜️🌊

    @brycesattler2301@brycesattler23015 ай бұрын

  • Ladrones todos

    @s.durbar1294@s.durbar12944 жыл бұрын

    • Dedicaron 16 años de su vida y perdieron a cinco compañeros en la busqueda, explicanos la razon de porque son ladrones.

      @louissaldana1160@louissaldana11604 жыл бұрын

    • The Spanish were the thieves. They pillaged and pilfered and killed whole civilizations.

      @drduandada4218@drduandada42185 ай бұрын

    • Crickets....

      @kiwiingenuity1677@kiwiingenuity167721 күн бұрын

  • CRAZY

    @robertrusnak620@robertrusnak620 Жыл бұрын
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