Discover Hidden Treasures

There’s a certain moment, right before you dive, when the world goes quiet. You’re standing at the edge of the water, wetsuit tugging at your shoulders, regulator clipped to your chest, the metal detector humming in your hand like it already knows something you don’t. The ocean stretches out in front of you, calm, indifferent, ancient. Somewhere beneath those rolling waves lies a story buried under centuries of sand. Maybe it’s a coin. Maybe it’s a whole damned ship. Maybe it

Art McKee proudly displays treasure recovered from a Spanish galleon off Plantation Key, circa 1950. (Photo courtesy of Florida Memory,...

Archivo General de Indias If you’re hunting gold, forget the X on the beach for a minute. The real map, the one that led to galleons,...