Bobby Jordan

[Donovan]

Anybody know anything about the reported death of Bobby Lordan ?

 

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[Roofis]

I don't know for sure but I thought Bobby died a few years back. While we are on the subject. Does anyone know what happened to Richard the owner of Middle Keys Scuba? MM 50 ocean side. He worked for Jorden in the 70s and knew the waters off Marathon as good as anyone. Richard is the reason I got into the buisness of treasure hunting many years back. The phone is disconnected , his website is down . I hope he is well. Any info would be appreciated. If Stephon is reading this please let me know.

 

[old man]

I don't know for sure but I thought Bobby died a few years back. While we are on the subject. Does anyone know what happened to Richard the owner of Middle Keys Scuba? MM 50 ocean side. He worked for Jorden in the 70s and knew the waters off Marathon as good as anyone. Richard is the reason I got into the buisness of treasure hunting many years back. The phone is disconnected , his website is down . I hope he is well. Any info would be appreciated. If Stephon is reading this please let me know.

Roofis, A few years ago, I was told that he had a business somewhere on an Island in the Caribbean and was moving down there.

 

[Donovan]

I was told that he died a few days ago but there was no other data.

 

[Roofis]

Bobby or Richard?

 

[Galleon Hunter]

Bobby or Richard?

Ahhh the 1968 Presidential Election, that is the question all Americans were asking, Bobby Kennedy or Richard Nixon? Had Robert Kennedy not been assassinated on June 5, 1968, he would have won the nomination instead of Hubert Humphrey and perhaps the election outcome would have been very different and history altered.

 

[Galleon Hunter]

Sorry I couldn't resist.

I did get an email from Burt Webber and Bob Marx on June 15th saying that Bobby Jordan had passed away.

 

[Donovan]

I received confirmation from the local paper that Bobby Jordan had indeed passed away. The paper decided not to do a full obit on the controversial treasure hunter.

 

[joe frog]

I had the good pleasure of knowing Bobby and pat and both were great people. Bobby knew all the great divers and treasure finder and mel fisher. They were good friends until bobby found the Gold and as we all know Treasure is Trouble. Mel won the court case bobby got nothing except a bad rap. I had bobby work with me salvaging in the Bahamas and what a great diver and friend he was. His last days were filled with sickness and pain and finally gave in Saturday June 13. I wish well and know that crossing over the bar is a blessing. I feel very privileged to have drove with bobby and learning all the secrets of treasure finding. Bobby was honest,cheerful,of good character and everyone in the Treasure salvage will surely miss him. The news paper in key west should run a good article about his life work and great achievement .

 

[BVI Hunter]

Does anyone know what happened to Richard the owner of Middle Keys Scuba? MM 50 ocean side. He worked for Jorden in the 70s and knew the waters off Marathon as good as anyone. Richard is the reason I got into the buisness of treasure hunting many years back. The phone is disconnected , his website is down . I hope he is well. Any info would be appreciated.

is that Richard Hartford of whom you speak?

 

[Roofis]

That would be Richard Boilou. I'm sure that's not how he spells his name

 

[BVI Hunter]

 

[Burrapeg]

Just ran across this forum. Sorry to learn Bob Jordan died some years ago. I worked for that old pirate a number of years both in the Keys and also in Orange, TX, where he moved for a while in the late 70's while he was scrapping a destroyer escort there in the Sabine River. That is where we put the CASTILIAN together, the neat dive boat he had. I had found him an older aluminium crewboat in new Iberia, LA, and we engined it with a pair of 671's and built a beautiful set of 'Mel boxes' for her props. Then I went for three seasons with him down in the Keys in years after that and also worked for Mel Fisher for a while during all three of those seasons. The third season in 1979 was my honeymoon and I brought my wife Leta with me for a 4-month treasure-diving honeymoon where we worked for Bob and Mel on various projects and sites, and Leta sometimes rode the boats with us or other times ran the gift shop for Mel on the old galleon replica/office. I had actually trained as an archaeologist in college both in Texas and in London and always had a love of the sea and nautical history, especially the 16th and 17th Centuries, the years of the great galleon fleets and the huge sea battles with the English and Dutch, (like the Four Days Battle in one of the Anglo-Dutch wars, which was the largest sea battle of the whole age of sail, involving hundreds of ships). I had volunteered in the model repair shops at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich when a student and knew quite a bit about these ships, their construction, and had an extensive library by then of books on ship construction, nautical history, etc. I used to identify bits of the wrecks and fastenings, etc. for the guys so we could tell how old a wreck was, etc. Besides scuba diving for many years before that, I was also licensed as an inland tug skipper and had worked at times as a marine diesel mechanic. So I fit into Bob and Mel's operations back then pretty well. Wish I could have stayed with it! But I inherited a family machine works and foundry back in East Texas and had to go home. This was quite a few years before he had the falling out with Mel over trying to make off with all that gold off the Santa Margarita. Lost touch with Bob and always missed the diving from then on and my wife did too. I lost her 10 years ago to a heart attack. Damn heart problems get a lot of women too. Anyway, I have some great memories of those days and some good photos if you guys are interested. I remember Art Hartman, Bill Robinson, and some of Mel's guys like his sons, also Don Kincaid and Mo. If I make it back down the Keys some time for a visit, I would love to meet up with any of you that knew Bob and Mel and swap stories.

 

[ARC]

Love to see the photos.

Post away.

 

[ARC]

Oh and I knew Mel... but I cannot tell my stories or it might really give me away :P

 

[JT]

Burrapeg, please post the pics and keep the memories going.

Once we’re gone the memories and knowledge are lost.

 

[ARC]

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[hapyhunter]

yes this is the hapyhunter -old man stefan...Bobby was older enough to died, Richard the owner of Middle Keys Scuba? Is still kicking just like ME!

 

[hapyhunter]

yes I was reading this!

 

[Castillianmate82-83]

Just ran across this forum. Sorry to learn Bob Jordan died some years ago. I worked for that old pirate a number of years both in the Keys and also in Orange, TX, where he moved for a while in the late 70's while he was scrapping a destroyer escort there in the Sabine River. That is where we put the CASTILIAN together, the neat dive boat he had. I had found him an older aluminium crewboat in new Iberia, LA, and we engined it with a pair of 671's and built a beautiful set of 'Mel boxes' for her props. Then I went for three seasons with him down in the Keys in years after that and also worked for Mel Fisher for a while during all three of those seasons. The third season in 1979 was my honeymoon and I brought my wife Leta with me for a 4-month treasure-diving honeymoon where we worked for Bob and Mel on various projects and sites, and Leta sometimes rode the boats with us or other times ran the gift shop for Mel on the old galleon replica/office. I had actually trained as an archaeologist in college both in Texas and in London and always had a love of the sea and nautical history, especially the 16th and 17th Centuries, the years of the great galleon fleets and the huge sea battles with the English and Dutch, (like the Four Days Battle in one of the Anglo-Dutch wars, which was the largest sea battle of the whole age of sail, involving hundreds of ships). I had volunteered in the model repair shops at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich when a student and knew quite a bit about these ships, their construction, and had an extensive library by then of books on ship construction, nautical history, etc. I used to identify bits of the wrecks and fastenings, etc. for the guys so we could tell how old a wreck was, etc. Besides scuba diving for many years before that, I was also licensed as an inland tug skipper and had worked at times as a marine diesel mechanic. So I fit into Bob and Mel's operations back then pretty well. Wish I could have stayed with it! But I inherited a family machine works and foundry back in East Texas and had to go home. This was quite a few years before he had the falling out with Mel over trying to make off with all that gold off the Santa Margarita. Lost touch with Bob and always missed the diving from then on and my wife did too. I lost her 10 years ago to a heart attack. Damn heart problems get a lot of women too. Anyway, I have some great memories of those days and some good photos if you guys are interested. I remember Art Hartman, Bill Robinson, and some of Mel's guys like his sons, also Don Kincaid and Mo. If I make it back down the Keys some time for a visit, I would love to meet up with any of you that knew Bob and Mel and swap stories.

My wife Cathy was a diver on the Castillian 82-83