Newspapers report that famed astronaut physician, Dr, Gordon Benson, has joined treasure hunters at Vero Beach. The good doctor’s hobby is balloons. He will aid treasure divers by sitting in a balloon viewing the ocean floor from a height of 200-250 feet. It is hoped that from this vantage point he will be able to pin point with foolproof exactness the location of shipwrecks from the ill-fated Spanish treasure fleet lost in a raging hurricane off Vero Beach in the year 1715. This technique was borrowed from archaeologists who began to use aircraft to spot ancient ruins from the air.
