Today, MRR crew member Rob Hill recovered his first gold coins from one of the famed 1715 Fleet wreck site. The Douglas Beach site is known for the large amount of gold coins recovered in years past. While diving on board the vessel Sea Reaper, Rob was in the water with Josh Fisher Abt. The water was clear and approximately 20 ft. deep when the glimmer of gold shined from a crack in the seafloor. Diver Rob Hill recovers gold coins on a 1715 wreck site. Rob surfaced with the f

The Sea Reaper left Key West on Saturday and arrived in Ft. Pierce Sunday morning to perform its first day of work for the 1715 season. By Tuesday, the third day on one of the famed Treasure Coast sites, divers recovered a gold coin and four silver coins John Brandon, Rob Hill and Dan Porter with gold coin recovered from a 1715 wreck. ​ The day began with two divers in the water performing methodical metal detector surveys after excavations in a target area off of Ft. Pierce.

On Monday, Sea Reaper divers Zack Sztanyo and Dan Schweizer, working for MRR under contract with Queens Jewels, LLC, recovered another rare gold coin from the 1715 fleet off the coast of Fort Pierce, FL. It was a calm day on the water when the Sea Reaper divers returned to a metal detector anomaly they had located nearly six weeks ago. In June, the target was discovered deep in a crack in the limestone bedrock. Captain Dan Porter asked his friend and equipment supplier Les

The MRR Expedition Team has recovered 2 gold two escudos, proving a successful start to the 2016 season along Florida's Treasure Coast. The gold coins, minted in Bogota and carried on the 1715 fleet galleons, were discovered Thursday while working an area along the Douglass Beach wreck site. For diver Josh Fisher, this was the first of hopefully many recoveries of gold artifacts from the 1715 wreck sites. Diver Josh Fisher and Capt. Dan Porter recover gold coins! #Gold #Coi