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The Science of Treasure Hunting
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 : 4:00pm to 6:00pm
University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library
240
Free
Sean Fisher discusses his family’s decades-long quest for the Nuestra Seniora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank in 1622.
Sean Fisher, grandson of the late Mel Fisher, now runs his family’s Historic Shipwreck Salvage business, which operates out of Key West, Florida. He will talk about his family’s adventure of searching for the Nuestra Seniora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon laden with gold and silver from the New World that sank in a hurricane in 1622, just 35 miles west of Key West.
In July 1985, Mel Fisher and his crew discovered the main cultural deposit of the Atocha, consisting of more than 37 tons of silver bars and coins. The search for her remaining treasure still continues today.
In this forum, Sean Fisher will discuss the many facets of the search and the technology used to make that search possible. Technology has always played a key role in historic shipwreck salvage, and over the years Fisher has seen the field move beyond simple mechanical innovation to GPS, anomaly location technology, and charting and mapping advances. These technological innovations have continually increased the efficiency of historic shipwreck salvors.
Fisher will be available after his presentation for a short Q&A and will have a number of authentic artifacts to show.