Novice makes million-dollar find

[chadd7881]

i ran across this today after watching about mel fisher on TV ... Ornate Gold Chalice Update! - Mel Fisher's Treasures
it is absolutely beautiful when cleaned up amazing find....
also working as a sub contract diver for Mel Fisher Inc. diving those wrecks isn't all its cracked up to be 400 a week work from sun rise to sun set, 6 days a week and you get .5 percent of all finds soo that kid made an extra 5000 for finding that million dollar chalice

 

[Captain Morgan]

Absolutely stunning!

 

[Boykin]

Awesome!

 

[jiplee]

Every year individuals become investors in Mel Fisher's treasure hunt just so they can dive on the salvage boats with Fisher's divers. This can be a very intense experience, nothing like recreational diving. You leave the salvage boat with no air in your BC and head straight to the bottom in order to avoid the current as much as possible. You are loaded down with extra weight to help you stay on the bottom during the treasure search. You take the down line straight to the hole that has been blown out to the bedrock by the boat's equipment. The Fisher divers take metal detectors into the hole to search for treasure. They also take smaller blowers down to blow sand out of some of the deeper holes in the bedrock that may have been left by ancient mangroves and such. Divers may be in the water searching an unproductive hole for 45 minutes to an hour. Then they come back to the surface and hang out for 60-90 minutes while the boat blows another hole in the sand. So it's not quite like slaving from morning to night. And most divers say it beats an office job hands down. If you are in Key West, go by the Fisher museum. The gold chalice is now on display in the Fisher sales showroom in the rear of the museum. You can enter through a side door without paying museum entrance fees. Today's the day!!