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$500M Of Sunken Treasure Returns To Spain
[Updated] A $500 million haul of gold and silver coins salvaged from a Spanish ship that sunk 200 years ago is heading from the US to Spain after five years of legal wrangling. US firm Odyssey Marine Exploration — co-founded by former Bermuda Premier Dr. David Saul — found the treasure in a wreck off Portugal’s Atlantic coast in 2007. However... Read more of this article
Videos: TCM Celebrates ‘The Deep’
Turner Classic Movies [TCM] has recently been celebrating the underwater thriller “The Deep”, director Peter Yates’ cinematic adaptation of the Peter Benchley bestseller shot largely on location in Bermuda in the summer of 1976. In a long retrospective at the TCM website, film historian Andrea Passafiume — who works for the... Read more of this article
Ex-BUEI Director Top Boston Citizen
The former executive director of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute [BUEI] has been named runner-up Bostonian of the Year by one of that Massachusetts city’s leading newspapers. Nancy Brennan, who helmed the East Broadway maritime facility in the late 1990s, has been executive director of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway since 2005.... Read more of this article
Benchley: Romance Of Bermuda’s Wrecks
He once said Teddy Tucker brought the world to Bermuda and Bermuda to the world. But novelist and ocean explorer Peter Benchley [pictured] deserves no small degree of credit for arranging the introduction. The one-time White House speechwriter and “National Geographic” correspondent played a large role in nudging the Bermudian adventurer... Read more of this article
Senator: ‘Staying Competitive In Tourism’
Bermuda’s attendance at global travel exposition in London this month underscored how much work the island has to do to remain competitive in an increasingly cut-throat market, the new Junior Tourism Minister told the Senate today [Nov.23]. Senator Vincent Ingham said Bermuda’s delegation to the World Travel Market Exhibition — led... Read more of this article
New Teddy Tucker Book’s A ‘Treasure’ Trove!
Diver Teddy Tucker is renowned around the world for his treasure-hunting adventures while Bermudians have long considered him a national treasure. As “Jaws” author Peter Benchley once said, Teddy Tucker’s legendary undersea exploits helped bring Bermuda to the attention of the world — and helped to bring the world to Bermuda. Now... Read more of this article
Archaeology Magazine Features Local Shipwreck
Archaeology Magazine is carrying an article featuring a local shipwreck project, in which the remains of an American Civil War blockade runner have yielded long-buried secrets to an international team of archaeologists working with Bermuda’s Department of Conservation Services. Items including wine and perfume have been excavated from the Mary Celestia... Read more of this article
Dr. Saul’s Deep-Sea Treasure Odyssey
Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration, co-founded by former Bermuda Premier Dr. David Saul, has located two shipwrecks carrying millions of dollars worth of silver. One vessel was sunk off Ireland in 1917, when a German torpedo crippled the British steamer “Mantola” — sending the ship and its cargo of an estimated 20 tons of silver... Read more of this article
Shipwreck Featured On National Geographic
National Geographic is carrying an article featuring a local shipwreck project, in which the remains of an American Civil War blockade runner have yielded long-buried secrets to an international team of archaeologists working with Bermuda’s Department of Conservation Services. Items including wine and perfume have been excavated from the Mary Celestia... Read more of this article
150-Year-Old Perfume Found In Shipwreck
Analysis of the artifacts excavated from the Mary Celestia shipwreck continue to reveal new information – and forgotten secrets – of a contraband stash of private goods hidden inside the steamer when it crashed into the reefs off Southampton on September 6, 1864. In June, Dr. Philippe Rouja, Conservator of Historic Wrecks [pictured below] from Conservation... Read more of this article
Bermuda Sub Aqua Club 40th Anniversary
The Bermuda Sub Aqua Club [BSAC] celebrates its 40th anniversary with a cocktail party and dinner this weekend. Over the years, the club has taught hundreds how to dive and taken part in projects to enhance appreciation of Bermuda’s natural environment. BSAC was formed in the summer of 1971, in affiliation with the British Sub-Aqua Club — the biggest... Read more of this article
Photos: 150 Yr Old Wine Found in Shipwreck
[Updated with additional photos & video] The storm-tossed remains of an American Civil War blockade runner have yielded long-buried secrets to an international team of archaeologists working with Bermuda’s Department of Conservation Services. A secret stash of wine, lodged inside the bow of the wreck of the Mary Celestia, which lies immediately... Read more of this article
