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 ...

Roughly 30 miles off the coast of Key West, Florida, sits a ship called The Dare. Its exact location is a closely guarded secret because, deep below the crystal-clear water, through hundreds of years ...

If “Titanic” is one of your favorite movies and you’ve dreamed about having a piece of jewelry from the bottom of the sea, an emerald ring up for auction might pique your interest. The Nuestra Señora ...

For the unversed, the Atocha was part of a fleet commissioned by the Spanish government in the 17th century to further the country’s exploration and colonization efforts. The galleon left Spain for ...

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

This 5-pound gold bar recovered from the famous Atocha shipwreck sunk in 1622 is up for auction on May 7th in Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC’s Treasure Auction 35 “Atocha Meets Her Fate,” oil painting by ...

A 6.25-carat emerald that sank 400 years ago, with the colonizing Spanish vessel Nuestra Señora de Atocha, will come to auction at Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels Sale in New York on December 7—and this ...

The gem, recovered from the Nuestra Señora de Atocha, ended up in the possession of the chicken magnate Frank Perdue. His widow, Mitzi Perdue, is auctioning it to support humanitarian efforts in ...

A ring made with an emerald that was lost on a Spanish shipwreck for four centuries before being rediscovered in one of the most successful treasure hunts of all time will come to auction for the ...