Herbo Humphreys has crossed over the bar.

ropesfish

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Signum Ops posted this on Facebook this morning.

"From the Cayman Compass:
Herbert “Herbo” Humphreys, the long-time owner of the Holiday Inn and a treasure hunter credited with discovering numerous historic shipwrecks, died Tuesday after a battle with cancer. He was 69. Mr. Humphreys led an adventurous globe-trotting life and is fondly remembered in Cayman as a pioneer ..."

Fair winds and following seas to Herbo. His was not an easy path. RIP.

https://www.caymancompass.com/2018/01/18/treasure-hunter-and-hotelier-dies-at-69/
 

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Mackaydon

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The story: https://divingthemaravillas.wordpress.com/
Gone; much too early, but his reputation as a good man remains intact.
Don.....
 

seekerGH

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He was just looking for his old boat a few months back...

damn sad.
 

capt dom

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Signum Ops posted this on Facebook this morning.

"From the Cayman Compass:
Herbert “Herbo” Humphreys, the long-time owner of the Holiday Inn and a treasure hunter credited with discovering numerous historic shipwrecks, died Tuesday after a battle with cancer. He was 69. Mr. Humphreys led an adventurous globe-trotting life and is fondly remembered in Cayman as a pioneer ..."

Fair winds and following seas to Herbo. His was not an easy path. RIP.

https://www.caymancompass.com/2018/01/18/treasure-hunter-and-hotelier-dies-at-69/

None of us get out alive.... We had some business with Herbo that went south due to too many chiefs and not enough indians, yet I still somehow ended up getting along with him... The adventure of the hunt is what really mattered to him.... He really wasn't in it for the money.

Sail on Herbo...
 

Chagy

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Sorry to hear - Had the pleasure to meet him and to talk about some of his findings...

RIP Herbo
 

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