Privateer Wreck from the 1600's

[old man]

I know I posted this before, but I'm sure a lot of new people have joined Tnet since then.
I got this map from Mel Fisher many years ago and added directions to it. Mel Never salvaged the wreck and I dove on it a few times and located the cannons and Spanish pottery shards on the beach near the site.
I didn't have a metal detector with me any time I was there. It might be an interesting site for someone.

Mel is the one that said, it was a Privateer from the 1600's.
This is located on the west Coast of the Island of Antigua.

 

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[Blak bart]

Hmmmmmm. Very interesting. If I ever get down there with the yachts I work on ill give it a go.

 

[joska]

why don,t you have your buddy David check it out since he lives on the west coast of Antigua ?

 

[old man]

Joska, I showed him the wreck site.

 

[old man]

Here's one of the cannons from the wreck.

 

[PhipsFolly]

Would it be worth checking out if others have been made aware of it already... It's probably been picked clean by now...

 

[Blak bart]

Would it be worth checking out if others have been made aware of it already... It's probably been picked clean by now...

You never know if its been picked clean unless you check it yourself. There could always be some fruit on the higher branches as they say. Many a great treasure has been found after others have been there first. If I was there today id be checkig it out tomorrow. And probably periodically every few months. There are tresure wishers and treasure hunters. If your there go for it phipsfolly if aything it would be a great dive adventure.

 

[Blak bart]

Oldman has been very kind to show us that map.
Thanks

 

[old man]

Phipsfolly, I think it's worth checking out. The only guy that I showed it to was a Brit living down there and I also showed him where 4 or 5 other wrecks were that he didn't know about. I doubt that he worked all of them.

 

[PhipsFolly]

I would love to check into it and it is most certainly awesome of you to share that with others Old Man. I know that you are very knowledgeable and I hope to meet up with you sometime soon to chat in person... Chuck was going to introduce us at one of the cookouts but I could never get freed up to attend. Anyway, I'll pm you...

And Blak Bart you are absolutely right with your comments and I usually don't let it stop me from checking out a site but this would be quite an expensive trip down and I would have to weigh out whether the trip would be worth it for the sole purpose of seeing what's still there.

 

[Blak bart]

I would love to check into it and it is most certainly awesome of you to share that with others Old Man. I know that you are very knowledgeable and I hope to meet up with you sometime soon to chat in person... Chuck was going to introduce us at one of the cookouts but I could never get freed up to attend. Anyway, I'll pm you...

And Blak Bart you are absolutely right with your comments and I usually don't let it stop me from checking out a site but this would be quite an expensive trip down and I would have to weigh out whether the trip would be worth it for the sole purpose of seeing what's still there.

Yes it would be expensive. I thought maybe you were alreaby close by. I too could not justify to my wife the expense of a trip like that. Maybe I can convince my boss to take a trip down there next season on his yacht.