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Another might be when Mel Fischer in 1985 announced that they had found the motherload for the Atocha. Within a year treasure was being sold on the one of the shopping channels. There have been others like the Central America but none that seem to or would generate the excitement that the Franklin expedition seems to have generated.
They are still working that wreck aren't they? I think you can still pay Mel to come work the wreck for him.
The museum in Key West is interesting through. The treasures on display are beautiful and very interesting, as is the store attached to it where you can purchase some of the gold and silver ingots, coins and other things. Of course the gold carries quite a premium as I recall, something like 10X it's value that would be calculated by weight.
I remember these ships being in a Clive Cussler novel named Artic Drift. Are the vessels intact?
I went to primary school in Canada. The search fit the Northwest Passage was a very big deal. At first, they were looking for a viable trade route to the orient. It quickly became a symbolic thing. The Franklin Expedition had all sorts of mystique .... The arctic, the passage and finally the mystery of what happened to them.