Bahamas-North of Freeport, off Gorda Cay, lies the wreck of a wooden ship. What follows is a list of the best treasure-hunting spots in the Caribbean, and I ask only a modest percentage of your findings as recompense. The cargo manifest of a single ship, the Notre Dame de Deliverance, shows 1,170 pounds of gold bullion (packed into 17 chests), 15,399 gold doubloons, 153 gold snuff boxes weighing six ounces each, more than one million pieces-of-eight, 764 ounces of silver, 31 pounds of silver ore, six pairs of diamond earrings, a diamond ring and several chests of precious stones. The Spanish kept excellent records of the treasure ships transporting the wealth of the New World across the Atlantic and Caribbean. Estimates of the number of ships sunk in the Caribbean and western Atlantic are as high as 4,000 in the Anegada Channel off the British Virgin Islands alone, some 134 ships are supposed to have gone down between 15. The area is alive with tales and relics of pirates, Spanish gold, sunken ships and yellowed parchment maps that seem to cry out for some adventurous diver or explorer to dig deeper, look further, dive farther offshore. It doesn`t take too much imagination for a Caribbean vacationer to begin dreaming about discovering sunken or buried treasure.
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