Atocha/Margarita -Magruder finds...more updated!!

[Au_Dreamers]

This will get you bottom painting faster!

"Magruder just found 4ft gold chain & gold religious medallion!
Tomorrow we'll have images.
What's in next hole?
Today's the Day!"

Tomorrow is today, no pics yet...

 

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[Saturna]

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"Magruder just found 4ft gold chain ...

Just think what the anchor looks like.

 

[stevemc]

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I assume this is from Atocha/Margarita area, right? I didnt think the Magruder was still out there. They must have painted it. Maybe that is the white and light grey Fisher boat that I have been seeing for years. It used to be light blue and darker blue.

 

[Au_Dreamers]

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"Magruder just found 4ft gold chain ...

Just think what the anchor looks like.

 

[mad4wrecks]

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Steve, the Macgruder is still working the Atocha site. This is how it looked as of August 2010.

Tom

 

[stevemc]

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OK, I have seen that one from a far. They usually anchor at the SW corner at night. Treasure Boat pass. There is a huge white Fishers boat that usually anchors on the South side at night, I thought it was that one. I remember the Magruder had a light blue cabin in the past, or so I think it did. Stuff is still trickling in!

 

[jeff k]

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The Associated Press
KEY WEST, Fla. -- Shipwreck salvors are evaluating a centuries-old 40-inch gold chain, with an enameled gold cross and two-sided engraved religious medallion, plucked from the sea floor while searching for a 17th-century sunken Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys.

Tentatively valued at about $250,000, the piece is believed to be from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha that sank during a 1622 hurricane. It was found Wednesday by divers from Mel Fisher's Treasures searching for the sterncastle of the Atocha, 35 miles west of Key West.

The chain's 55 links resemble cotterpins and the medallion features an engraved Virgin Mary and chalice.

In 1985, the Fisher crew recovered more than $450 million in artifacts and treasure from the Atocha shipwreck, but the sterncastle remains undiscovered.

 

[CanadianTrout]

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"centuries-old 40-inch gold chain, with an enameled gold cross and two-sided engraved religious medallion, plucked from the sea floor "

OMG, sweet! I can't wait for pics!

 

[FISHEYE]

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Heres the Magruder in october 2010

 

[psdiver]

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Pictures posted on facebook.
Mel Fisher's Treasures

 

[Au_Dreamers]

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[TheRandyMan]

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B E A U T I F U L!!!!

 

[KEYSHUNTER]

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SWEET OooOO

 

[captbonnie]

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painting as fast as i can ....

a bit of blower upgrade on the cage part and hope to launch first of week

some good incentive to come home from the boatyard and read about GOLD finds

Congrats to the Magruder crew!

 

[sabre15]

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With the sterncastle still missing what could it entail if found?

 

[Salvor6]

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Mad4wrecks is that the Dauntless next to the Mcgruder?

 

[Au_Dreamers]

Re: This will get you bottom painting faster! Magruder finds...

painting as fast as i can ....

a bit of blower upgrade on the cage part and hope to launch first of week

some good incentive to come home from the boatyard and read about GOLD finds

Congrats to the Magruder crew!

I bet it is good incentive....


Nice to hear you're almost ready to splash, Dave said some nice westwinds last couple of days and here they're talking about freeze warnings!

Waiting for "your" pictures...

 

[Au_Dreamers]

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With the sterncastle still missing what could it entail if found?

Treasure that will boggle the mind!

More pictures....http://www.melfisher.com/SalvageOperations/RecentFinds/032511_RelArt/Cross.asp

and if you need some more incentives!!

February, 2011 -- Sharon Wiley

"Captain Andy Matroci and his crew on the Magruder just came in to our Key West headquarters after a successful 12-day trip on the Atocha site. Of the 42 holes he excavated, 22 of them contained Atocha artifacts, including the last 8 holes in a row! This is an unprecedented success rate of over 50%!

Needless to say, Andy and his crew can't wait to get back on the site and gradually widen the search around this "hot"; excavation area. The booty recovered just during the last trip is impressive - 23 silver coins, a rapier sword blade, a cannonball, an intact barrel hoop, numerous iron spikes that held the ship together, pottery shards and ballast stones.

Captain Andy described the area where he is working. "We are near the northernmost part of the Atocha site, between the stern castle trail and the new carpenter's trail, in an area that has never been excavated. This is virgin territory we are working in right now," he said with a gleam in his eyes."

Man I have to get back to Florida!!

 

[Au_Dreamers]

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I assume this is from Atocha/Margarita area, right? I didnt think the Magruder was still out there. They must have painted it. Maybe that is the white and light grey Fisher boat that I have been seeing for years. It used to be light blue and darker blue.

March, 2010 -- Sharon Wiley

http://www.melfisher.com/Library/InTheNewsFullPages/031010_Magruder/031010_Magruder.asp

 

[mad4wrecks]

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Mad4wrecks is that the Dauntless next to the Mcgruder?

No. Next to the Macgruder is the Dare, which formerly belonged to Art Hartman. 3 blowers on that vessel! The small Parker boat is their mag boat, the Pinpointer.

Tom