Author: L. Frank Hudson
Publisher: Winner Enterprises.
ISBN: 9780932855299
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Author: Bill Murphy
Publisher: Seaside Pub
ISBN: 9780942084283
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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Author: Steven D. Singer
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561641635
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Over 2,100 shipwrecks from the 16th century to the present; the most comprehensive listing now available. Wrecks are arranged primarily by geographical section of the state. Within sections, wrecks are arranged chronologically. Extensive and heavily illustrated appendices offer a wealth of information on topics of interest to divers and researchers alike. A companion volume, More Shipwrecks of Florida, is now available from Pineapple Press.

Author: Kip Wagner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Treasure troves
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Steven Danforth Singer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 168334037X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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More Shipwrecks of Florida is a sequel to Shipwrecks of Florida, 2nd edition. This new book with all new content adds over 1,500 shipwrecks to the guide, and includes additional information on hundreds of previously listed shipwrecks, all organized by year. It also includes more GPS coordinates, as well as stories of pirates and privateers, wreckers, and buried and sunken treasure.

Author: Tyrrell L Armstrong
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Is attempting the impossible a good idea? Generally, no, because it's... impossible. Or so you might think until somebody does it. With the discovery of the 1715 Plate Fleet shipwrecks along Florida's Treasure Coast, what seemed impossible at first has, over five decades of toil, become standard operating procedure. How to locate and recover the remains of the wreckage is accomplished today using computerized technology and advanced sensory methodology, but that was not the case when the first salvors of the modern epic began exploring the many sites we know of, which are currently spread out over fifty miles of coastline. The progression of techniques employed to discover, recover, and document the 1715 Fleet shipwrecks begins with ardent adventurers, using hit-and-miss methods, right through analog mapping schemes, and on to digital data collection that is tried-and-true. "Finding X" gives the reader a brief glimpse of the technological developments resulting from this enterprise, why they came about, and how they came about. In the prologue Taffi Fisher Abt provides the reader with an ample summary of the problems encountered along with the solutions devised over time. In the addendum the Mel Fisher Center, Inc. contributes excerpts from the Florida East Coast Shipwreck Project reports highlighting germane issues covered throughout the volume. T. L. Armstrong gives the reader a lay-person overview of the practices and defining circumstances that are the foundation of the salvor's craft, with special notes on recent developments in the 21st century where software is a key element.

Author: Kevin M. McCarthy
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561640072
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Sunken treasure, cannibalism, prison ships, Nazi submarines, the Bermuda triangle--all are tied into the lore of shipwrecks along Florida's coasts. There are as many shipwreck stories as there are thousands of Florida shipwrecks. This book offers thirty of the most interesting of them--from the tale of young Fontaneda, who wrecked in 1545 and was held captive by Indians for 17 years, to the story of the Coast Guard cutter Bibb, which was sunk off Key Largo in 1987 to provide an artificial reef and diving site. In between there is the Atocha, flagship of a Spanish treasure fleet, which sank in a hurricane in September 1622 and was found, along with its $100 million worth of gold and silver, by Mel Fisher in July of 1985. Each shipwreck story has a map pinpointing its location and a full-color illustration by renowned artist William L. Trotter. There is an extensive bibliography and a foreword by Florida state underwater archaeologist Roger Smith.

Author: Robert Forrest Burgess
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Melissa R. Price
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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This thesis examines the impacts of treasure salvors and looters on the Pillar Dollar Wreck (site # BISC00035) in Biscayne Bay, Florida, and explores three comparative shipwrecks from the 1733 fleet, El Populo, San Jos©♭, and San Pedro, which wrecked off the coast of Florida and were likely from a similar time period as the Pillar Dollar Wreck. The intention of this thesis is to develop a methodology for measuring the effects of cultural impacts, particularly treasure salvage and looting, on Spanish colonial shipwreck sites in the Florida Keys. There is no current basis for quantifying such effects. Further, this thesis presents the first focus on the history of the Florida Exploration and Salvage (now Recovery) Program. The information presented in this thesis is used to identify what was learned from treasure salvor endeavors on Spanish colonial shipwreck sites in the Florida Keys and examine what an academic investigation of the treasure salvor industry can reveal about what is lost or gained through commercial exploitation of Spanish colonial shipwrecks in the Florida Keys by treasure salvors. Site formation process studies provide the theoretical framework upon which this thesis is founded, creating an understanding of the processes that created and altered the four shipwreck sites. This study adds to the database of knowledge about site formation processes on Spanish colonial shipwrecks in the Florida Keys. Finally, cultural heritage management is a relevant topic that is currently at the forefront of maritime archaeology. This thesis contributes to the database of information concerning protection of sites and specifically explores management issues related to treasure salvage of Spanish colonial shipwrecks in the Florida Keys.

Author: Dave Horner
Publisher: Dodd Mead
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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