The 1715 Fleet is a cache of Spanish gold just laying on the ocean floor, waiting for someone to come along and claim what they can.
Caesarea National Park isn’t the only place where divers have found vast riches in living memory. There’s also the 1715 Treasure Fleet (also known as the 1715 Plata Fleet — “Plata” being the Spanish word for silver), which was unearthed by an amateur diver and enterprising Florida Man, William Bartlett. He went down to do what many divers do — check out a shipwreck that is hundreds of years old. What he found was so much gold he had to start packing it into his gloves. Over the next two days, he and his compatriots found 350 gold coins worth an astonishing $4.5 million. And while other hauls have been pulled out of this shipwreck, this one was the biggest to come from the wreck in decades. Continue reading The 1715 Fleet: The Archetypal Sunken Treasure at http://KellycoDetectors.com: https://www.kellycodetectors.com/pages/1715-fleet/
