Last Saturday, a group of divers found 48 gold coins valued at $250,000 off the East Coast of Florida. Dailymail.Uk reported that a crew work for 1715 Queens Fleet Jewels found that coins when diving the wreckage site of a fleet of 11 Spanish ships searching for treasure.
1715 Queens Fleet Jewels owner, Brent Brisben, holds the salvage rights to dive the area off Wabasso Beach, the site of 11 wrecked Spanish ships which split apart there in 1715 due to a hurricane. The ships were returning from Cuba when they encountered the hurricane, split apart, and sank.
Captain Greg Bounds drove the boat about 200 feet off the coastline of Wabasso Beach for a regular day of treasure hunting. After all day, pulling ropes and diving and lifting anchors, Bounds dove off the boat and brought in quite a haul of gold coins.
Brisben, who was there when Bounds came accross the bounty of coins.
"To see (Bounds) come up out of the water and over the rail, I'll never forget,' Brisben said. 'He waves us in, he says "I think I got one more," and he drops about fifteen in my hand."
Eventually Bounds would bring in 48 gold coins. Since each coin is worth about $4,000 dollars, that brings their loot up to $250,000.
Bounds, says there are many days where they just find garbage, but days like Saturday make it worth it Brisben told MailOnline that while they do find gold coins occasionally, they rarely find a load this big.
"We find gold coins every year but not big piles of them. This is unusual to come up in one day."
"It's by no means a regular occurrence. There's many more days we pick up beer cans and lead fishing sinkers than gold coins," Bounds told WFTV.
Source: Dailymail.uk
