Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 105 Searching for the Lady Atoka
As the Renaissance movement emerged from the late Middle Ages, a desire for commercial capital and wealth emerged in Europe.

At that time, Europe's main trade object was the East, but the trade with the East was monopolized by Venice and RNY at that time, so the Western European countries decided to explore the route to the East by themselves, and Portugal and Spain were the first to explore the Eastern route.

Portugal went south, and after decades of operation, it successively occupied the routes along the west of Africa. When da Gama arrived in India via the Cape of Good Hope in 1498 and discovered a new route to the East, Portugal monopolized it.

Spain had to go west to find a new route to the east. By mistake, Columbus discovered the American continent in 1492. Spain then launched a campaign to conquer and colonize the Americas, and wiped out all of them in a very short period of time. Overwhelmed the various empires established by the Indians and established extremely vast colonies.

In 1494, after arbitration by the Pope, Portugal also acquired a very large colony in the American continent east of 50 degrees west longitude, which was later Brazil, while Spain controlled the vast area of ​​America except Brazil.

The areas conquered by Spain were rich in gold and silver, so a large number of fleets loaded these precious metals from Cuba, across the Atlantic Ocean, and shipped them to Europe.

That is, from this period, the ships of countless colonists, carrying countless gold, silver and jewels, were ruthlessly sunk by the power of nature on the way.

For hundreds of years, the sea has displayed treasures such as scattered gold and silver coins in front of people from time to time, attracting explorers to explore, and even produced professional treasure hunters.

Of course, many rich people also use this method as leisure, and Tang Huan and Christina's group belong to this category.

Beginning in the early 1960s, ancient Spanish gold and silver coins appeared on the beaches of Florida from time to time, which set off a protracted gold rush, and many myths of sudden wealth were born.

Christina, a rich lady who is used to extravagance, naturally doesn't care about such a small probability event. She just thinks that Tang Huan's idea is novel and interesting, and just for this fun, she even seriously applied for a salvage license.

Tang Huan is currently in Verlong Beach, Florida. While enjoying the sunshine and beautiful scenery, he recalled the scene of visiting the fleet of the Onassis family. Obsessed with that kind of spectacle.

Thoughts were wandering around, Christina came over gracefully and called out coquettishly, "Don, put on sunscreen for me again."

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James Cameron shouted in the distance: "Don, the man you are looking for is here."

At present, Cameron is still unknown. In order to support his family, he often receives some advertising business such as promotional videos from Zheru. By chance, Tang Huan met him in the office building. Bad taste, they invited over together.

In fact, in the original time and space, Cameron was a well-known diving enthusiast. He conducted 72 deep sea dives, 33 of which were to the wreck site of the Titanic.

When filming "Titanic" in 1997, Cameron dived to the bottom of the sea 12 times to capture images of the sinking ship.

Fifteen years later, Cameron took the "Deep Sea Challenger" submarine alone. It took two hours to reach the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean with a depth of nearly 15 kilometers, and stayed on the seabed for three hours. , becoming the second deepest underwater dive in human history, and the first person to do so alone.

It has to be said that after Cameron became famous, he is still very pursuing.

In this time and space, Tang Huan dragged Cameron to the beaches of Florida, where treasure hunting is prevalent. I don’t know how it will affect his shooting concept. It’s very interesting to think about it.

Tang Huan gently pushed Christina away, took a towel to cover her lap, and waved to Cameron to lead her over.

"Are you the famous Mr. Mel Fisher?" Tang Huan looked at the middle-aged man in front of him. His skin was rough, no different from the sailing people he had seen in recent days, but he was wearing glasses and looked determined. The appearance seems to show something different.

"Yes." After Fisher finished answering, he also lightened the gold chain hanging around his neck and hanging on his chest, "This is my salvage in 1975, it is six feet long, and everyone nearby knows it .”

Fisher, a famous treasure hunter, nearly drowned when he dared to dive with homemade equipment at the age of 12.

With the scientific and technological revolution of diving, the underwater self-sustaining rebreather, scuba, came out, and the capital investment in diving did not need to be so unattainable, which gave Fisher a great opportunity to display his skills.

When he was young, Fisher opened a diving school in California. Because of his little fame, he was invited to find a treasure ship that sank in the waters of Veron Beach in 1715, so he gambled for a year. In 1963, he brought With his wife and four children, the family moved to Florida.

This year's treasure hunting career was not smooth. In the first 360 days, I found nothing and lost everything. In the end, I made a big discovery in the last few days. I found more than 1000 gold coins and came from hell to heaven. Fisher He has since become a professional treasure hunter.

In the period that followed, Fisher gained quite a lot, but he was not satisfied. He set the target of his treasure hunt on the legendary ship Lady Atoka, which was said to have transported countless treasures but sank to the bottom of the sea due to a hurricane.

Spanish treasure ships are most afraid of pirates and hurricanes. In order to deal with pirates, each fleet is equipped with a "guard ship" equipped with cannons and a strong hull. The Lady Atoka is such a guard ship.

In August 1622, Madame Atoka's fleet of 8 ships returned to Spain from South America full of treasures.

Because it is a escort ship, everyone put the most valuable and most treasures on the Madame Atoka.

But unfortunately, the cannons of the Lady Atoka had no deterrent effect on the hurricane, and in the end they did not escape the bad luck of being buried in the bottom of the sea.

At first, Fisher explored the waters off Matecumber Island in the Florida Keys, but found nothing.

By chance, Fisher got the advice of Florida historian Eugene Lyon, not only confirmed the authenticity of the Lady Atoka, but also roughly locked the sinking area—located 100 kilometers southwest of Matecumber Island. Many miles to the Marquesas Islands neighborhood.

But the bad thing is that there used to be a naval shooting range, which caused trouble for the magnetometer detection. They found refrigerators, Volkswagens and even trains, but there were no treasures.

By the summer of 1971, Fisher's treasure-hunting team had explored 175000 miles of seabed, still no progress, and the family was once again bankrupt, and he was soliciting investment everywhere but no one was willing to pay.

In their desperation, they found the anchor, some silver coins and a six-foot gold chain - the one Fisher now wears around his neck,
After identification, the age of these items was similar to that of the Lady Atoka, so some investors began to believe in this persistent treasure hunter.

In July 1975, Dirk, Fisher's son and already the captain of the North Wind diving ship, discovered a rare and precious bronze cannon, and the treasure hunt process made significant progress.

But disaster followed, and that night, the North Wind diving boat sank in the water. Dirk, his wife Angie, and a diver, Ricky Gage, were killed.

The grieving Fisher family discussed whether to continue this seemingly endless treasure hunting process, and finally decided not to give up, and started working again a few months later, but until now, except for a few treasures and handicrafts, there has been no progress.

In the original time and space, this process would continue for another five years. It was not until July 1985, 7 that part of the wreckage of the Lady Atoka was discovered.

As a result, the Fisher family received a huge return worth more than 5 million U.S. dollars. Some of the gold bricks weighed 88 pounds, or nearly 40 kilograms, which is really shocking.

However, no bank accepted this huge amount of precious metals, and it also caused a legal dispute with the state of Florida. The reason is self-evident.

Tang Huan looked at Fisher's gold chain, laughed loudly, and stretched out his hand very cooperatively.

Fisher skillfully held the gold chain several times, and placed it on Tang Huan's palm little by little. At the same time, he carefully observed his expression, but he didn't find the enthusiasm of ordinary people for gold.

Tang Huanyun was calm and breezy, his palms were motionless.

When the length of the gold chain in his hand was still [-] to [-] centimeters, Fisher suddenly let go of his hand, and with a bang, the whole gold chain hung down. The performances are very dramatic, and can even be said to be some kind of philosophy.

Tang Huan's hand was still firmly in the air, holding the gold chain firmly, and when it was about to touch the ground, he stopped the downward momentum.

Fisher was stunned. This seemed to be contrary to common sense. When did his gold chain become lighter?
"The heavy gold feels very fulfilling." Tang Huan smiled happily.

(End of this chapter)