Salvor6
Silver Member
- Feb 5, 2005
- 3,755
- 2,171
- Detector(s) used
- Aquapulse, J.W. Fisher Proton 3, Pulse Star II, Detector Pro Headhunter, AK-47
- Primary Interest:
- Shipwrecks
Just got back from a tour of Global Marine Exploration Inc. in Tampa. WOW! What a great place. They have a real nice facility with a museum and display cases in the lobby. Jason (Scubafinder) gave me a tour of the place. The conservation lab is HUGE! With at least 20 work benches, storage racks, electrolysis stations and soaking bins. They have a lost wax casting system for making replica castings of the coins they recovered.
Almost all their inventory was gone, either to the upcoming Sedwick auction in Orlando or to an auction house in England but there was still enough left to impress me. Then we went in the back room with rows and rows of shelves filled with artifacts. They have some pweter plates that are buffed up to a shine like a mirror. GME's research library has all the usual treasure hunting books and some rare volumes (like Duro) and reference books on pottery, pweter and bottles.
I had a meeting Bobby Pritchard and he is a really nice guy with a serious vision of historic shipwreck preservation. I saw some of the archaeological reports they published and the quality exceeds anything I have seen from INA. I am a member of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology and I get the INA Quarterly but they have never published a book with all the artifacts they have recovered from any of their projects.
Almost all their inventory was gone, either to the upcoming Sedwick auction in Orlando or to an auction house in England but there was still enough left to impress me. Then we went in the back room with rows and rows of shelves filled with artifacts. They have some pweter plates that are buffed up to a shine like a mirror. GME's research library has all the usual treasure hunting books and some rare volumes (like Duro) and reference books on pottery, pweter and bottles.
I had a meeting Bobby Pritchard and he is a really nice guy with a serious vision of historic shipwreck preservation. I saw some of the archaeological reports they published and the quality exceeds anything I have seen from INA. I am a member of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology and I get the INA Quarterly but they have never published a book with all the artifacts they have recovered from any of their projects.
