SUNKEN TREASURE: SIX WHO FOUND FORTUNES
ISBN: 0595092713

This is the true story of the world's most successful treasure salvors. Based on interviews and actual dives on the treasure sites, Burgess puts you there and tells you the reason for their success. You learn from their own words how they first got started, how they survived in the business, and what made the difference between them finding or not finding millions of dollars worth of centuries old Spanish treasure lost at sea. Here are the trade secrets of McKee, Wagner, Marx, Webber, Clifford, and Fisher. Fully illustrated. 335 pages. Paperback 6 x 9 © 1988/2000 Published by IUniverse.com

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Sunken Treasure: Six Who Found Fortunes is the riveting true life adventures of six of the world's most successful treasure divers: Arthur McKee Jr., Kip Wagner, Robert Marx, Burt D. Webber, Barry Clifford, and Melvin Fisher. Author and underwater photographer Robert F. Burgess, who has dived on some of these treasure wrecks, tells us how each of these individuals got into the business of treasure hunting underwater, how they survived long enough to learn the ropes and above all, why these six were more successful in finding the sunken fortunes that had baffled centuries of other hunters. But best of all, Burgess' knack for putting you right in the midst of the action will make you "live" the same adventure! From his many photographs and interviews with these treasure hunters we learn the trade secrets of how they were able to successfully recover millions of dollars worth of centuries old Spanish treasure from the ocean floor. The reader is there when it began with each of them, and is in on the major finds when they occur! And you never need believe that these lucky fellows found it all! The sea still hides more bullion! Enough to make millionaires of generations more treasure salvors once they know the secrets and make use of today's modern technologies. This books tells how the best ones of today did it and points the way to how others more will do it tomorrow. Maybe you'll be among them! As Mel Fisher always said, "Today's the day!"...And then, by golly IT WAS!

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FROM THE BOOK:

    "How that first plunge snapped them back to reality, made their teeth clamp onto their rubber mouthpieces, made them hyperventilate in their mad scramble for the bottom, arms outstretched to embrace a fortune, eyes bugged wide! The fever was on them and there was no denying it. Only the hefty feel of silver coins in their eager hands and the cold grip of the Atlantic would in time provide any surcease to the kind of fever they felt.
    Soon they started popping to the surface like corks. tight-fisted, arms held out of water, wide grins behind their masks. They came to the boat with hands clenched over coins and handed them up to Wagner. Then down they went again, like children gleefully picking dandelions in a grassy glade and hurrying back to shower them on their beaming parents."

A REVIEW:

"Secrets of the world's most successful treasure salvors told in a way that puts you right there with them!"
—Spyglass Publications

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