A team of excavators find out A load of Spanish currencies lost for a long time buried for several centuries under surfing and sand along an extension of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast”.
This week, Slvage Salvage Company 1715 Fleet – CEARENS JEWELS LLC announced that its submarines had found A century ago In the Spanish colonies in Bolivia, Mexico and Peru. They appreciate the two million dollars coins.
Over the years, millions of dollars in coins It is found – It was stolen – by Salvages along the Atlantic Coast of Melbourne to Fort Pierce.
In the end, the recent discoveries of the rescue season for this summer will be divided between the rescue company and the sub -contractors and the state of Florida, as required by the state law.
Here is what to know about the traditions of Florida in the hunting of treasures approved by the state.
The 1715 fleet was a convoy of Spanish ships loaded with silver, gold and jewelry taken from the new world. The fleet was sailing again to Spain when a hurricane struck it on July 31, 1715, which leads to the swelling of the treasures in the sea.
Spanish has regained some gold and silver currencies, but many of the treasures of the fleet are considered to be lost.
For generations, the divers combed the “treasure coast”, which is looking for gold bars and eight members of the waves. Over the years, the site has resulted in a group of treasure, and has helped maintain a local industry of professional treasure hunters.
Under the Florida Law, any “treasure” or artifacts have been “abandoned” from the lands owned by the state or in the waters of the state belonging to the state. However, the state can issue permits for individuals or companies qualified to survey and recover cultural resources abroad.
Salvages gets to move away with most of the artifacts, after negotiations with state officials.
The state law requires that about 20 % of the archaeological materials that have been recovered by the state are kept for research or general presentation groups. Other 80 % can be divided between salvages.
Company 1715 Fleet – JEWELS LLC has obtained exclusive rescue rights to the wreckage of the fleet ships 1715 by a federal court, which supervises its discoveries and distributions every year.
Sal Guttuso, the company’s operations manager, says that employees are making a detailed stock of discoveries before the start of the conservation process in the company’s archaeological laboratory, where small groups of coins are placed in the reverse electrical analysis tank. This is the process of operating a stream of electricity through a water solution to remove salt and mineral oxides and the growth of the naval that has caused currencies over the centuries.
After that, employees will use high -resolution photography and photography to document the nuances of each currency, including any signs that show date, monitor and associated Minter, along with the weight and location that has been found. These scales are used to assess metal currencies on the system -based row system.
Then state officials review the detailed stock and request the artifacts they want to keep for the public, as soon as the federal judge signs.
It is against Florida’s law to disturb or dig the public -owned sites without permission from the Florida Historical Resources Department, and it can require violations of a felony. Florida officials can issue an exploration or recovery permit for applicants who have fulfilled “strict archaeological requirements”.
The state encourages residents and visitors to explore many underwater archaeological governorates, and to help identify, record and inform the underwater sites – not only bother them.
“The real treasure of the ship’s wreckage is derived through general participation and interpretation,” as an explanation is read on the site of dividing historical resources.
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GUTTUSO says the operation of the ship’s wreck rescue is a part -time job for it. He said that the subcontractors who dive the site treat him as a summer job while working as a mechanic or real estate manager during the period of others.
Gotoso said that some divers use the discoveries of one season to finance the hunt next season. Others keep the coins of private groups.
He said that there are some years when the fishermen see a great push. In 2015, the company’s submarines found more than 350 gold coins, the most valuable of which were sold for $ 250,000 per piece.
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