Diving the Atocha - Part 2

Diving on the Atocha debris trail, looking for some of the enormous treasure of gold, silver, and emeralds from that Spanish galleon that wrecked in 1622. We jump off the Magruder into a hole that the propeller has blasted, and dig around in the sand and shells, looking with our eyes and metal detectors for loot.

You may be concerned that we are damaging corral by walking around and disturbing the sealife. But the ground we are walking on is actually bedrock, not corral. The salvage ship blasts a hole in the sand using its propeller over a period of about 30 minutes, and so there is nothing living that we need to worry about. You will notice no fish either. We saw several stingrays that were very curious about us, but that's about it.

We fan the sand away to reveal any small crevices in the bedrock where silver, gold, or emeralds might be hiding.

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• Scuba
• diving
• treasure-hunting
• wreck
• Atocha
• salvage