La Capitana. A real swindle
March 13, 1998 at 20:30:08
Dated May 9 1997, Subamerica Discoveries quitted operations and left Ecuador under circumstances which are not precisely clear to the Ecuadorian Government. As of this date they haven’t returned to the Site and do not expect to do so. Why they’ve left a wreck Site filled with Treasure? Was it real or a fake Site made up to cheat investors?
Further investigation brought out to light that Robert McClung and his partners were diving over a modern wreckage instead of that of La Capitana.
Such modern wreck is the "B/P Isabel Victoria 1", classed and registered as a fishing vessel with the Ecuadorian Port authorities, sunk off El Real (Chanduy) by February 1981, at the very same coordinates where Subamerica Discoveries claimed its finding for La Capitana in 1997.
Diving activities to recover parts of the fishing boat were conducted in 1981 by Ecuadorian divers who lately worked for Subamerica Discoveries in their only-for-the-media recovery.
It is known that these divers indicated this location to German Moro, and that in 1995 their salvage vessel "Explorer" came to Ecuador to cover the "Isabel Victoria" with sand. In 1997 the "Explorer" came back to Ecuador and using their blowers uncovered the fishing boat, and what a surprise! They’ve found La Capitana for the media!! Uncovering shining clean coins!! What a work.
It is known that one of the Ecuadorian divers as well as Alberto Dillon, owner of a hostel in Ballenita, provided Subamerica Discoveries with olive jars and other pottery found off Salinas and Ballenita by local fishermen. These objects were placed at their alleged wreck site.
None Ecuadorian authority has yet certified those findings as belonging or coming from the Capitana of 1654.
How can the Ecuadorian Government certify a wreck identity with just a few thousand coins, recovered from the "Maravillas" and other wrecks, lately used by Subamerica Discoveries and Robert McClung to salt the site, and one single gold coin minted at Seville in 1661! The wreck of the Capitana occurred in 1654!!
Archival documents, which Subamerica Discoveries also has, clearly indicate the place of sinking: Punta Carnero. I would like to know what their investors have been told.
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