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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1339419, member: 112"]Many times, but many years ago. When I left home at 18 I moved to FL, lived here about 12 years. A year and half of that I spent living on a boat in the Florida Keys. And in 1976, quite by accident, I discovered a wreck in Coffin's Patch. Spent 10 days underwater, 10 hours a day (using a hooka rig), digging the anchor with an air-lift. It was buried 6 ft deep in sand and coral. Length was 14 ft, width at the flukes was 12 ft, took 11 55 gal. drums to float that sucker so we could tow it in and a crane to lift it out. Later we found and recovered several of the cannon, some coins, other artifacts, pretty cool stuff. Managed to keep the location secret. Even Mel Fisher couldn't find it and he sure tried. There's a lot more that to that story but I'll not go into it all here. That winter I left the Keys and did not return. The location of the wreck was not rediscovered until 6 years later in 1982. That time it made the headlines. But someplace down in the Keys there sits a giant anchor from a Spanish galleon with a plaque on its base. That plaque has my name on it. And only a handful of people, most of whom are probably dead by now, even know this story <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]