OK… now I have to admit that I am not just patting Bill and Cal on the back. Nope, I actually dropped a name hoping somebody would pick up on it and say something. There’s more to the story and its all tied together over a whole lot of years. By the way, Bill, Cal and I would expect to be lampooned for exposing the detector, but, I stand by my results, and would dare any of you to put up a dollar against me with the result set I furnished originally. My skin is real thick. I made the post without consent from Bill or Cal, but, I’ve seen enough to satisfy myself and its time to move forward.
Frank Brawley. Frank lived in Cocoa Beach when I first met him back in the sixties. He went to the Divers Training Academy in Fort Lauderdale, as did I (and Burt Webber, Cal Johnson and a whole bunch of other guys for that matter). Frank and I worked for Packer Diving and Salvage in Morgan City Louisiana, and later on we worked together on the Laertes salvage job out of Canaveral. Eventually, Frank played some part in putting me to work on the New Channel Historical Survey Group treasure lease at Klondike Beach (north side of Cape Kennedy). New Channel was run by Bill and Florence Andrews and Mel Fisher got shares in New Channel by trading services of Fay Field and his mag. Fay found a lot of stuff for Mel. Mel gave the info to Bill Andrews who, in turn shared some of it with Frank… who eventually shared some of it with Bill and Cal. Frank died several years ago but I was not aware of it until Bill told me. Bill and Florence Andrews died several years back as well. They are survived by my buddy Randy Andrews, their son. Now bear with me.
As a short aside to the big picture: the Laertes was salvaged by the KarrWinAll company which was split between three partners… Craig Karr, Chuck Winston and Jimmy Allamong. Winston and Allamong were oilfield guys from Texas, specifically working on pipelines. Pipelines run underwater all over the Gulf and in the swamps of Louisiana as well as under the plains of Texas. Back in the 60’s, pipeline people sometimes resorted to dowsing to find the lines. Chuck Winston dowsed with brass rods and found the Led wreck for KarrWinAll when LOP’s were not sufficient to do it. KarrWinAll had no mags, sonars, metal detectors, ect. Without getting into a hair pulling contest with other posters, let me just say that dowsing is a VERTICAL datum–centric locator while Bill and Cal have built a HOROZONTAL datum-centric locator. I’ve seen both of them work, and I do have my own magnetometer which is ALSO a vertical datum location device, meaning, like any metal detector, you have to basically pass OVER the item you are looking for. Well, obviously when you are limited to traveling on a flat plane (the sea surface) to perform a search, its far better to travel in the X and Y directions first, before having to define the Z plane. The alternative is to run a grid pattern and eliminate the dead space. Save fuel and time: save money. Enough about dowsing and KarrWinAll. I’ve lost touch with all those guys and many of them are already dead. One guy who worked on that job was Tom Mounts. Last I heard he was the Director of Diving Operations for the University of Miami. He might still be around.
Now, some of you may have read Marx’s books and may recall a blurb about a diver helping to recover a bronze cannon from a shrimper net off the Cape Canaveral area. That was Frank Brawley if you take his word for it. Does anybody here know any different? Frank gave some info to Bill and Cal years back which they used to locate a wreck. The location is an exact same waypoint provided to me in that collection of net hangs I mentioned in my original post. The point was separately discovered through the use of the Johnson Haynie locator (for want of a better word), before being recursed with a set of magnetometers. Since Bill Andrews died, I have been permitted to see his charts. The wreck is cited there at the same location as well. I am fairly confident that Frank got his info from Bill Andrews. I personally do not believe that he would have lost the location of any wreck that was throwing up bronze guns. Maybe, but probably not.
In the meantime, I still have more than 1100 waypoints to check, and some alleged rockpiles dead east of Corrigans to locate. If I can get Bill and Cal to help me, I am pretty sure you will be hearing more about this.
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