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Mel Fisher (August 21, 1922 – December 19, 1998) was an American treasure hunter best known for finding the 1622 wreck of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha in Florida waters. Personal life [ edit ]
Mel and Deo Fisher searched for the Atocha for 16 years and in 1985 found the mother lode worth more than $400 million US (approximately 1/2 of the treasure listed on the manifest). They discovered "Emerald City" about 100 feet (30 m) from the "main pile" of the Atocha .
Beginning in 1969, American treasure hunters Mel Fisher, Finley Ricard and a team of sub-contractors, funded by investors and others in a joint venture, Treasure Salvors, Inc., searched the sea bed for Nuestra Señora de Atocha for sixteen and a half years. In 1970, Fisher had recovered portions of the wrecked cargo of the sister ship Santa ...
A professional treasure hunter has been charged in the theft of the 37 gold coins ... to the illegal sale of multiple stolen gold coins between 2023 and 2024, FWC said. ... including Mel Fisher ...
By Sept. 4, 1622, the Atocha was part of a fleet of 28 vessels that sailed from Havana, according to the 1986 book Treasure of the Atocha by Duncan Mathewson, the archaeologist Mel Fisher hired in ...
A trove of gold coins reported stolen from the 1715 Fleet Shipwrecks on Florida's Treasure Coast were ... to the illegal sale of the stolen coins in 2023 and 2024, FWC said. ... including Mel ...
Mel Fisher's Treasure Museum: Florida: Seminole: Panama Canal Museum: Y Florida: Stuart: House of Refuge at Gilbert's Bar: Florida: Stuart: Maritime & Yachting Museum: Florida: Tampa: SS American Victory Mariners Museum: Florida: Vero Beach: McLarty Treasure Museum: Archived 2007-12-23 at the Wayback Machine: Florida: West Palm Beach: Palm ...
Through extensive research by historian Dr. Eugene Lyon on behalf of treasure hunter Mel Fisher and his company Treasure Salvors, a portion of the wreck of the Santa Margarita was discovered in 1980. Blue Water Ventures, a search and salvage company, partnered with Fisher to recover artifacts from the wreck. [4]