Boldido
05-10-2006, 05:55 PM
I know it may seem hard to believe from my posting style, but as lawyers go, I'm a pretty nice guy. I have a friend who is an attorney who has asked numerous favors of me over the years. He is about fifteen or twenty years older than I am. I never really thought twice about helping him out. If I can help someone out I usually do it, besides, this guy is very nice and really interesting.
Before he was an attorney he was a treasure hunter with Mel Fisher from the Keys. He was working for Fisher when Fisher found the Atocha and the Margarita. His stories are fascinating. As some of you know, I love scuba diving and love wreck diving in particular.
Today he had his secretary ask me to come over to the office. When I got there he handed me an envelope that felt heavy on one side. When I opened it there was a nice note and an 8 reale piece, you may know it better as a "piece of eight". My friend brought it up from the wreck of the Spanish Galleon Santa Margarita in 1975 where it had layed for 353 years.
I have never owned a piece of history before and I have to confess that I am awestruck. When Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, this was sitting on the ocean floor. When Abraham Lincoln was assasinated this was sitting on the ocean floor...well, you get the idea.
http://www.newworldtreasures.com/images/2269.jpg
This is what it looks like, although not quite so detailed.
Before he was an attorney he was a treasure hunter with Mel Fisher from the Keys. He was working for Fisher when Fisher found the Atocha and the Margarita. His stories are fascinating. As some of you know, I love scuba diving and love wreck diving in particular.
Today he had his secretary ask me to come over to the office. When I got there he handed me an envelope that felt heavy on one side. When I opened it there was a nice note and an 8 reale piece, you may know it better as a "piece of eight". My friend brought it up from the wreck of the Spanish Galleon Santa Margarita in 1975 where it had layed for 353 years.
I have never owned a piece of history before and I have to confess that I am awestruck. When Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, this was sitting on the ocean floor. When Abraham Lincoln was assasinated this was sitting on the ocean floor...well, you get the idea.
http://www.newworldtreasures.com/images/2269.jpg
This is what it looks like, although not quite so detailed.