Experience exciting treasure hunting in the waters of the Atlantic; a step back in time to the era when Spain ruled the exploration of the sea and the treasures of the new world were flowing into the coffers of King Philip IV.
Date: 6 September 1622
The Spanish galleons Nuestra Seniora de Atocha and Santa Margarita, her sister ship, was sailing from Havana, Cuba, in Seville, Spain. Off the coast of Florida, hurricane force winds ships and high waves that crashed ships against coral reefs. Within minutes gone ships and passengers and crew and the cargo were lost. Knowing that Atocha aovirladine with a silver alloy, gold Emerald jewelry, and it took the search for the ship on the great importance of many treasure hunt. However, signs on the ship and treasure everyone eluded nearly 360 years.
Through the efforts of treasure hunter Mel Fischer, Dr. Eugene Lyon, research and investor support Father Joseph Melvin, Georgetown, Delaware, along with others who believe in the research, more than 1000 silver bars, silver coins and 180,000 number of bronze cannons were recovered as part of the Atocha treasure. What a treasure! You can enjoy the splendor and magnificence gold jewelry, the excitement of the hunt in "treasures of the sea", located at Delaware technical and Community College, RT 18/404 beach highway, Georgetown, Delaware.
Over $ 4,000,000 in artworks, including silver ingots and coins, bronze guns, gold coins and silver artifacts, strings and deep emerald green of South America, and religious material is featured in the permanent display College Library building. Exhibition design unlimited, Inc., who also designed the displays "Smithsonian Institution", the exhibition tells information about the 17th century, Spain and its colonies in the new world, the plight of Atocha.
Sponsors of the exhibition may also display video 17-34 minutes or in the search for the vessel and recorded Joseph miles to find guns and visit the gift shop.
Trip weekend, off limits on its way to the beach or rainy day adventure-experience the excitement and treasure hoards opinion behind the comparison!
