National Geographic Video: Atocha: Quest for Treasure (1986)
National Geographic Video: Atocha: Quest for Treasure (1986)
The last of the three National Geographic LaserDiscs is something different compared to the first two. Instead of looking into the ecosystem of some place, this time we’re looking into the story of Mel Fisher, a treasure hunter, and his hunt for the shipwreck “Nuestra Señora de Atocha” (Spanish for “Our Lady of Atocha”), which sunk in the Florida Keys in 1622.
fair use mess with this video and ill sink your big boat
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Title of Source: National Geographic Video: Atocha: Quest for Treasure
Distributor: Vestron Video
Original Home Video Format: LaserDisc
Original Video: CLV LaserDisc
Original Audio: FM Stereo
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"Razor" Kane Fisher really went downhill. Arrested multiple times for DUI offences and drug paraphernalia.
Love this story, and the fact that it’s real makes it all the more interesting.
Good for this family HARD work pays OFF COOL
Treasure pieces still being found off floroda beaches… usually under 10 feet of water fyi (but you must be carefull with sharks
As a kid growing up in Florida when all this was happening it made you want to go look for treasure yourself. Thank you Mr.Fisher for all the wonderful memories and bringing history to life. I’m stuck in Atlanta at the moment can’t wait to get back home to Florida and get back in the water. This was a fantastic documentary loved it!
A real Horatio Alger Hero!
I have to grimace when I hear the curator from a museum talking about everyone having to hand over everything to museums….the museum in our town sold all its best paintings, donated years and years ago…so the museums staff could get massive raises in salaries, all voting themselves hundreds of dollars more every year….all for everyone’s good,of course, with the president going from 200 thousand to 450 thousand. These are the real pirates, just like Florida seizing the wreck and trying to take it all. We should be able to be free…to find and keep gold included in our basic freedom.
I hope Mr. Cincinnati was then able to afford new glasses.
2k uncut to get a small atocha emerald, what a dream. just to touch one worth as much!
I love history! What a great documentary that was!!
THIS TREASURE SHOULD BE RETURNING TO PERU……THE GOLD AND SILVER WE’RE PERUVIANS
FINDERS KEEPERS
Everyone they introduced has a title Chief president-ceo vice president I guess you got to give everyone a title on the boat
I needed money so I sold my COA gold coin from the museum for $2700. Had it for 12 years as part of a $8000 investment. Still have the sand dollars and sea biscuits from my dives. My wife has a mounted silver coin necklace.
Typical communist bottom feeder at 52:00. He hasn’t lifted a single finger to help and expects it to be all turned over so he can enjoy it. Must have taken a page out of the the Bernie Sanders book to communism
This was quite a story! I am sure that not only Dirk was watching over Cain👼, he is immensely proud of him too! Still the loss of three young people will always be part of this story as well. May they Rest In Peace.
🌹😔🌹. 🌈🇨🇦☮️
Museums frequently sell off donated artifacts to private parties to fund the operation….Including the massive salaries they vote themselves with no problem at all…why is that o.k?
That memorial poem says it all.. Those willing to pay the price in sweat, heartaches and tears vs those that would sit in a armchair and piss moan and complain about something they had NO investment in. Well done Mel.
i love a asshole who has not spent years or lost three friends and famliy run his mouth about who should have this treasure
Legendary. Just legendary – the mustaches that is. The documentary was great too.
My good friend Jimmy Cardenas worked for Mel been to the museum a picture taken with Mel. The blood sweat and tears to recover the treasure is awesome. For that intellectual fraud to not realize that part of history is sooo sad.
Incredible.
Man on a mission, many men on a mission. Sure glad that the folks found what they were looking for. Thanks
what a phenomenal piece of history, this documentary and the wreckage. i am only 24, but this footage is so incredible that it makes me nostalgic. so well-deserved it almost brings me tears. well done, mel fisher and company!!
Wanna sell my house and buy a dive boat with old dog and yeti cooler red stripe on ice
I had the opportunity to visit Mel’s museum when it was operating out of a replica Spanish galleon back in the mid 70’s. At the end of the tour I got to hold a finger bar of gold from the Atocha.
Government of Florida are the modern day pirates.
I was a mad diver from the mid 80s to the mid 90s and read, watched and dreamed of this treasure hunt but this is the first time I have seen this doco! Brings back so many memories and dreams, if in the right place at the right time I would have happily spent months or years sifting sand 50 feet down to help solve the mystery!
Ok im going to buy a boat and a metal detector ahahah
So glad the Supremes ruled in Fisher’s favor.
Thanks for the goonie music ,I love it!
I hope his family can live well from his perseverance for generations
Did they ever find the crooks that stole the large gold bar from the museum?
Great adventure. Mel and his crew very much deserved it. Hard ship heart breaks. Florida’s Favorite Son. Mel Fisher
Please tell me the narrator is Martin Sheen
This is my Treasure.. Im Frida Kahlo.. Im reincarnated and i can prove it all wat happened the atocha is the titanic yall found the treasure during the time i was “dead”… watch.. the world about to see and finally kno who santo niño de atocha aka lady of atocha aka frida kahlo was is am and here to set it straight… I would kindly like my belongings back.. ive already conquered death
Love this film
Damn new York liberals always wanting other people’s wealth…go find your own shipwreck.
This was great. Absolutely hate those museum assholes who think everything should go to them when they’ve done ZILCH and the thieving government who was planning how they would spend it before it was ever even theirs. FFS, the government wasn’t even around when this stuff went down. SO GLAD Mel and his family and crew and investors got it all. As they should. They went looking for it, lost lives over it and went without for a long time to find what only they believed was there to find. Just awesome.
I’ve met Mel Fisher to Key-West in 1994 . We
come into the bar to take a way food. À man
coming … i saw à Big man with a large smile i
Said to me he look like John Wayne without
long hair ans he come behind us to talk des
minutes after the bardender say do You Know
with who You talk ? I said no… he tell me he is
Mel Fisher ! My Memory it was a Nice man he
talk about Paris that he visit with his wife.
We took a picture with my French friends ans
its Big émeraude et sa grande chaîne en or.
Never Forget this moment !
I love his détermination !
It took 17 years to find the atocha.. BUT he would go into the oceans on april 1st for a few months. The irs agents on board quickly became bored and asked to be trained to scuba and help search.
A family friend purchased a medallion from the treasure for his wife.
“I sometimes feel like I don’t own these gold bars and gold chains” -yeah sure Mel. I’m sure that’s what you were thinking and not “if anybody tries to take these I’m going to shoot them with my armed guards” who happen to be old frail women. Jackass.
Thanks for putting this on. So interesting and rather exciting too
It still gets to me how low class the government was on this. I mean this was in their waters but came from other areas, and at that time they just came in said it’s ours, and don’t think you don’t owe taxes either. Drug seizures were worse, the value was seriously inflated.
Nice colonial plunder and ill gotten gains via forced labor in gold/silver mines in south America and African slave industry. So nice to see white Floridians retrieve such blood money
persistence pays off ………kudos to the divers
So beautiful, it shows the Key West I grew up with. 💚💛💚💛💚💛
What a wonderful story of incredible perseverance and dedication, finally rewarded with immense wealth and financial success. Good for Mel and all of his workers and partners! Thank God the Supreme Court had the wisdom to rule in their favor!
If anyone deserved to find the treasure it is Mel Fishers team.
I really hate those who believe that one should not have a right to own what they spent years to find. This treasure is the treasure of Mel Fisher and those who made it possible, and not we the people.