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MONROE COUNTY, Fla. — A discovery not seen in nearly 30 years came to shore in the Florida Keys on Thursday: a 22-pound silver bar from the famed Atocha shipwreck.
“It was our last dive of the day – it was almost 7 o’clock,” recalled lead diver Blake Baker.
Baker said the captain of the salvage vessel DARE, Drake Nicholas, was the one underwater with a crew. They are part of Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions.
“We were in an area with a lot of metal detector hits,” Nicholas said. “This one was deeper.”
After hitting the object with a knife and examining the surface, Nicholas said he saw telltale markings that were consistent with a silver bar.
“I didn’t believe it at the moment,” he said.
