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.

For the last month, the weather has been too windy to conduct excavation on the Margarita site and the MRR crew has been working on the new recovery vessel, Seatrepid, at Three D Boat Yard in the heat of Key West summer. On Tuesday, the crew finally got a chance to get back to the site of the Santa Margarita for four days of ideal summertime dive weather, with calm seas and clear, warm water. The majority of work on this expedition was focused on determining the scatter of ma