An eight-part series
1: Treasure Is Trouble Narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith
In 1622 a Spanish galleon, the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, sank in a hurricane off the coast of Florida. She was carrying a cargo worth an estimated 400 million dollars. The wreck was found 350 years later by a treasure hunter and former chicken farmer, Mel Fisher , whose dedicated quest to find the Atocha is now legendary.
For years the main treasure eluded him but in 1985 he at last discovered the so-called 'motherlode'. The adventure stories of the search for the Atocha and of the salvage of a British East Indiaman sunk on the Goodwin Sands are told in tonight's film. But should historic shipwrecks provide an excavation free-for-all for private profit or should they be preserved by the state for posterity? Film editor DICK PULL Film cameramen
IAN PUNTER, BRIAN HALL
Series editor BRUCE NORMAN Producer JULIA CAVE
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