Well-Known Treasure Hunters Carl ‘Fizz’ Fismer and Captain Gary Mace Host This Entertaining Six Episode Series That Takes Viewers on Multiple Treasure Dives
High definition and high adventure come together underwater in the new TREASURE HD series, TREASURE DIVERS, that premieres Sunday, August 19th at 12 pm ET & PT/1C. Filmed entirely in vivid high definition, each episode of the six week series takes viewers on exciting underwater quests to discover sunken treasures up and down the Florida coastline.
TREASURE DIVERS is the first HD television series to provide an inside look at the little known and rarely filmed world of underwater treasure excavation. Throughout the series, shipwreck treasure historian Carl ‘Fizz’ Fismer and dive instructor Captain Gary Mace will troll a host of underwater wrecks in search of riches, both monetary and historic. Traveling in research and recovery vessels, Fismer, Mace and the crew will visit various wreck sites throughout the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, including:
Deadeye Bone Yard – In the Gulf of Mexico off of Florida’s coast, Fizz discovers a 1800s-era wooden deadeye, elephant tusks and a cannon lying amongst the wreckage. The crew dives to try and find out if this slave ship, which once carried human cargo, was heading back to Europe with a hold full of cash.
Treasure Coast – Fizz and Captain Gary visit sites on Florida’s East Coast which is known as the Gold and Treasure Coast. Here heavily laden galleons on their way back to Spain were smashed into a shallow reef by heavy winds. Millions in silver and gold have been recovered, and millions more have not.
The Caves – Fifty miles off of Key West, the ocean shallows to 30 feet where a Spanish gold plate was found 30 years ago. Here, Fizz has discovered concentric entrances to three caves and a piece of pottery that could date back thousands of years. Captain Gary and the New World Legacy have detected a large metal hit on the site. Was this the site of a prehistoric society, and possibly the final resting ground of a missing sister ship of the famous Atocha, which yielded over $450 million in Spanish treasure?
“Treasure Divers is a project that we have been talking about for a long time. Now that the project is complete and we’ve seen a preview of the first episode, the images are even more stunning and vivid than we ever imagined,” says Gary Mace, co-owner of Conch Republic Divers. “If you’ve ever been on a treasure dive, you’ll feel right at home watching “Treasure Divers” and if you haven’t had the pleasure of a treasure dive, you’ll certainly want to after watching this series.”
Carl ‘Fizz’ Fismer is a preeminent expert in shipwreck and artifact identification and has explored, salvaged and consulted on about 300 shipwrecks in the Bahamas, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Sri Lanka, and the Southeast United States. He has over 35 years of treasure hunting and diving experience where he has successfully recovered treasure from the Spanish Galleon wrecks of 1580, 1618, 1622, 1627, 1631, 1641, 1715, 1733 and 1800.
Captain Gary Mace owns Conch Republic Divers in the Florida Keys (
www.conchrepublicdivers.com) and is a US Coast Guard Master Captain. His dive certifications include PADI and SDI/TDI Master Dive Instructor, full cave diver, tech wreck, advanced nitrox, tri-mix blender, and numerous other dive certifications. He has over 37 years of diving experience. Conch Republic Divers was voted the Number 1 dive shop in the Florida Keys by the readers of Scuba Diving magazine in 2006 and 2007.
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