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If you guys have On Demand on your cable service look up this show on the National Geographic Channel. I was hooked last night. Billy Clifford's crew was the whole show. They showed how long and the process of decrusting the artifacts. In some cases it has taken over a year to restore items. I missed the first part of the show but Billy has been working this site for 24 years and is restricted to how many dives he can do because of a diving season regulation off that coast. He feels that they have only scratched the surface on this wreck and it will take decades more to possibly find the majority of the gold. They estimate at the time of the sinking that the ship had the booty of 52 ships they boarded and transferred the contents of in the year before the sinking. The ship flipped over and the treasure is buried and spread out under the main hull and structure of the ship. This is the only confirmed Pirate wreck ever found in North America. Really cool stuff.
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