[ithacaartist]

Eric,

I visited Mel Fisher's museum in Key West about 20 years ago. Amazing treasure, a good display. While touring the Montello fort on the island, we ran into two of the restorers working on that project. One was named "Gibby", and he had worked as a diver for Mel.. He had quit, and just afterward, he said, Mel came tooling up in his old Cadillac, opened the trunk, and showed them the anchor from the wreck in question--which meant they were very very close to finding the wreck site. Bummer, to miss out on a cut of a billion dollar treasure!