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Bosun Dave
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Greetings All,
I'm a newbie to posting on this site even though I've been reading with great interest many of the threads for quite awhile. I don't really consider myself a treasure hunter, although maybe that's about to change. Over many months I've been researching the loss of the SS Pacific. She went down 1875 with at least 275 people, although some say as many as 500. Regardless she was, and, by all accounts still is, the "Titanic" of the West Coast. I've spent many long hours talking to Wells Fargo, who handled 90% of all gold shipments at the time, researchers and archeaologists. Wells Fargo can't confirm a gold shipment (records are spotty at best) but they can confirm there was an agent aboard. Anyway, by my research, I've been able to confirm approx. 4.8M of gold aboard (in todays dollars). Odyssey's research puts it at 13M. Odyssey ran two surveys in 1999 and 2000 and came up blank. They've left it alone for now since they have bigger fish to fry. I've read their reports on the project and KNOW their looking in the wrong place. So, can anyone out there tell me how I can secure funding to go out and find the wreck? I'd really like to beat Odyssey to the punch on this one since they seem to be the "Corporate Giant" of treasure hunting. If anyone's interested, I've got a lot more details I can share w/o giving too much away. I should also mention I've sailed for close on 30 years aboard research ships so I'm pretty sure how the search game goes.
Regards to all,
Bosun Dave
I'm a newbie to posting on this site even though I've been reading with great interest many of the threads for quite awhile. I don't really consider myself a treasure hunter, although maybe that's about to change. Over many months I've been researching the loss of the SS Pacific. She went down 1875 with at least 275 people, although some say as many as 500. Regardless she was, and, by all accounts still is, the "Titanic" of the West Coast. I've spent many long hours talking to Wells Fargo, who handled 90% of all gold shipments at the time, researchers and archeaologists. Wells Fargo can't confirm a gold shipment (records are spotty at best) but they can confirm there was an agent aboard. Anyway, by my research, I've been able to confirm approx. 4.8M of gold aboard (in todays dollars). Odyssey's research puts it at 13M. Odyssey ran two surveys in 1999 and 2000 and came up blank. They've left it alone for now since they have bigger fish to fry. I've read their reports on the project and KNOW their looking in the wrong place. So, can anyone out there tell me how I can secure funding to go out and find the wreck? I'd really like to beat Odyssey to the punch on this one since they seem to be the "Corporate Giant" of treasure hunting. If anyone's interested, I've got a lot more details I can share w/o giving too much away. I should also mention I've sailed for close on 30 years aboard research ships so I'm pretty sure how the search game goes.
Regards to all,
Bosun Dave