DESPITE THE CHOPPY SEAS AND nearly 3-hour boat ride, there was an air an excitement on our dive boat now anchored about 40 miles off Key West. We were about to dive on the site of the Nuestra Senora ...

First things first: Don’t call them treasure hunters. Of course, that’s what onlookers have always called colorful characters like Mel Fisher, who found the Spanish galleon Atocha off the Florida Keys ...

Divers searching for treasure off the coast of Florida have found an antique gold ring worth $500,000 from a 17th century sunken spanish ship. The ring is believed to be from the Nuestra Senora de ...

Blake Baker, a 25-year-old from Brazil, Indiana, is the First Mate and lead driver on the research vessel The Dare, searching ...

One year, 500,000 pieces of treasure, four books, a made-for-TV movie, a National Geographic special, a beer commercial and several hundred kegs of rum later, it`s just another day in paradise at Mel ...

Treasures from the world's most valuable shipwreck are being displayed in New York 400 years after they sunk to the bottom of the sea off Florida's coast. The anticipated Winter Show in New York City ...

Displayed under glass in little black velvet boxes, the polished silver coins reflect no mark of tragedy and travail. They have been cleaned of the black crust of centuries and seem at home in a ...

National Maritime Day is celebrated on May 22 to commemorate the voyage of the American steamship Savannah from the U.S. to ...

Nearly 40 artifacts from Mel Fisher's discovery will be up for auction. — -- This is the public’s chance to get their hands on treasure lifted from the bottom of the sea. Thirty years after Mel ...

Every September, Key West puts on a festival honoring treasure hunter Mel Fisher. That’s the man who said, “Today’s the day!” until his crew found $400 million of gold, silver and jewels beneath the ...