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Zee, rite it was a great discovery, one day it will go down as one of the most important shipwrecks here in the DR and possibly this whole hemisphere. So yep i still pour over the data i accumulated through all these years. Many unanswered questions. Hope one day to resume diving, you never know? Still could be something there that could ID the shipwreck.
Not just losing tourist dollars look at the money that was pumped into these coastal communities through our company and the hiring of local employees. Three years they have lost that.
The chest was an empty iron box we found while doing a magnetic survey, i believe too modern to be associated with the 16th century wreck, just one of my 17000 photos and videos that i have from the Scipion, Galliffet and Preciosa site and everywhere in between.
I had posted this picture on my twitter account asking anybody what they thought it was?: Someone said a keyhole, which was a no-duh moment, i always thought the treasure and items we found were probably that of one chest, and maybe the captains personal belongings. And this was probably part of the locking mechanism.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/uimage/uploads/2016/6/20/wxnmyRS1DB0283_(2).JPG
I just met yesterday with a local government group on this same subject, i expressed my anger that their government is not just allowing the looting of its own heritage (which very little sub marine artifacts even belong to them) but the looting of other countries heritage as well.
With that i explained what criteria should/could be met with new contracts. If it was a French shipwreck then the French would get first pick on recovered artifacts with a fair market price to the company who recovered them, If the French didn't want them then go with the normal fifty fifty split. But allowing their own people to loot these sites because of their lack to come up with alternate plan to stop it is wrong in so many ways. Until the DR can police their own coast they should really consider the only other viable alternative plan and that is to bring back private companies. And i had a very receptive audience yesterday. At least here in Samana they are starting to take notice.
a couple of things, Every contract was under an individuals name not a company, so wilf whos name is on the contract would be the beneficiary of a division. What he does with it could be anybody s guess? clearing up my debt would be a nice start. If what he claims is true and is owed several million in personal loans to the company then i guess he could stuff it in his pocket if he wanted too. There would be a few angry investors if he tried that but doesn't change the fact the division would go to wilf. If the division would have taken place as the contract stated then DBM may have had the option to move on as global marine did. DBM had put all its eggs in one basket and w/out the division it died.
When i was in charge of our area i heard when fishermen were looting our sites and in at least one case i found the fishermen and paid out of my own pocket to retrieve the artifacts and gave them back to cultura, not wanting any confrontation with the locals i never surrendered their names. But because these artifact were coming out of our area i took on the job as the police and investigated the whereabouts and was able to retrieve them. That is not the case now. The artifact are still being looted. I still get word about it and sometimes even pictures and to prove to this government what is happening i forward all photos to cultura.
There is no doubt someone in the government is getting their pockets line by UNESCO to stop all work. Anybody in the government you talk to, know this looting is happening and are all very sad at the current state of affairs.
The best thing that could happen is section off fifty mile stretches of coast and bring in private companies for each section with qualified personal to save the patrimony and police their own areas PERIOD!\
never felt a thing here, but thanks for asking.
I think the big question is who gets the division if there is no more company? How much you want to bet no one stops by my house.
I heard something interesting today, just saying what i heard, wouldn't run out and buy shares, maybe someone else heard the same? The lawyer i have working on getting my boat fishing down here said the ministries of culture was in town. And told my lawyer they shut down all contractors in 2013 and will be accepting applications in 2016. I heard something similar a few months back. This is an election year.
And they cant be so naive to not open it again as the looting continues. Why would they not want a sound archaeological dig, with the contractors paying $3000 a month (money to use for conservation of artifacts) Half of all items recovered and first pick of everything OR they can have what they have now, fishermen looting their and other nations heritage and selling it on the streets. I do believe they will eventually come to their senses.
So far its just a rumor, Maybe if it is true i could offer my boat and my local expertise to them for a small fee of course. Why not no one else is paying me? What the heck i could even sell them the rights to call it their discovery as it appears i am the last one standing who could even oppose their grand discovery.
@CaptBillRawson1
Same thing here, lots of silence. I did get a call from Tracy Bowden a few days ago. Nice talking with him. He says the same as me, nobody has said its over. Just dragging on. He hadn't heard anything positive. Most indicators are saying same president will be elected so that doesn't sound good. Who knows maybe the Global Marine lawsuit runs its course and some decisions will be made in the government to let the contractors get back to work or deny work to everybody?: Who knows in this country how they think. However if Global Marine does get compensated it may be a good time to have a shareholders meeting to discuss a lawsuit of our own. I know this bullshit has caused me two years of financial grief i would even think about spearheading that lawsuit. Especially if they decide to let Indiana U. dig on the sites we discovered. That shit just pisses me off thinking about it
CB
Blackduck I squarely stand behind your decision to sue. It is too bad we cant see into the future because if it is truly over then all shareholders of DBM should consider doing the same.
Its so unfair that the government takes the $3000 a month contract fees and allows the work to continue and gives not even an iota of a clue that work would be coming to an end. Or no divisions. Or the contracts will not be renewed. Which if it was just an individual then maybe it wouldnt hurt so much but come on man with public trading company's and allowing hundreds of investors to believe this will be years in the making. Total BS in my opinion.
After living here eight years now i know this is just typical behavior for the DR people. They dont care what you have done for them in the past or give a crap about the future its just live for the day so if UNESCO slides a select few in the government a little cash each day then they stand with UNESCO. And to turn down $3000 a month and allow the looting to continue and to lose even other countries heritages you know someone is getting their UNESCO checks.
OK i did finally get it to open. Remember where i live.
I have mixed emotions about the lawsuit. I fully understand after using other peoples monies that the treasure recovered surely should go to replacing of the investors monies. And what are you to do? Not go after what is rightfully yours/theirs. So i get that and good for you to go after it. But then with lawsuits pending and the chances for more in the future for sure the DR will not entertain the thought of having any more contractors. So even if it was dead or dying before it most certainly is now. I am as mad as anybody about this breach of contract. I am still here and see and hear on a daily basis the thieving that is taken place on the sites we discovered. And to hear rumor about our sites being handed over to Indiana U. Quite honestly how would anybody be allowed to work these sites w/out first making good with the people who actually discovered and recovered artifacts (with investors money). Let Indiana U. pay for the treasure then. I really cant believe this is happening. They know the sites are being robbed. This is not Somalia this is what i thought a more developed country. i guess not.
blackduck I havent been able to open any of them dropbox links. Sure appreciate you posting them sure would like to read them but so far cant open any of them?:
Nebula,
Here’s my argument. Besides Alejandro and myself there isn’t to many more people on this planet that has more info on what was found on our wreck-site. To have the most detailed archeology book ever written about shipwrecks of this era In my possession –The Nautical Archeology of Padre Island- written by Arnold and Weddle that I am able to compare the data they recovered from them wrecks to what we found on ours. It is eerily similar. Almost like they were sister ships. Same coins, same ship fittings, same silver discs, same chain plates for the standing rigging. Keel bolts all with exact measurements. Rudder gudgeons and pintles exactly alike. The only difference is our silver discs only had the Kings tax stamp when Padre Is had many stamps showing the area where it had been mined, the owners mark and purity stamps. Our discs had none of these. And like I said before this new law that came out in 1552 had these new marks added to the silver and gold. So that puts no doubt in my mind our ship set sail before 1552. Right? Why else would there have only been the king’s tax stamp and no other marks? Doesn't make a lick of sense that after 1552 that these stamps weren't added if the kings tax mark was. So there you go. Proof our ship set sail previous to 1552.
More to come
Mike, you ever give it much thought what i said about the marks on the silver. Why did the Padre Island shipwrecks have purity stamps, owner marks and mine marks along with the Kings tax stamp and ours only had the Kings tax stamp (one did have the shell of St. James). I read in the Arnold/Weddle text book that these additional marks didn't occur until after the ordencia de 1552. That would sure be a good indicator the Preciosa site as earlier than that of the Padre Is ships. Would that still jibe with what ship you think it is?\
IMO no three week vacation will yield anything of importance and beeker will only be using that time to start an agenda of what i believe what you just touched on and that is taking credit for the discovery and to continue to keep the government thinking he and only he should be allowed to work here.Using all the information provided from DBM to this government to conduct his investigation. And you know he will be bad mouthing anything we accomplished including the discovery that actually led him there.\
Your thoughts please
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Instead of TELLING ME what ship it isn't, tell me what SHIP it was?
lOVE YA MAN
cb
And another thing, what happened with the Padre Island shipwrecks. Treasure hunters discovered those wrecks. They were quickly denied access and they had to surrender their treasure. After that the state of Texas puts in charge a university to do the work. All throughout the academic book I have about those wrecks they bash the treasure hunters for disrupting the area. Though the discovery was made by the treasure hunters the University takes full recognition of the recovery and discovery of precious artifacts, and the academic books that followed. While the whole time bashing the original discovers as being only tomb raiders.
So here is my point. Eventually this government will be approached about this wreck by some university. They will have all of our documentation (from the government) and use that for research and eventually name the ship (Whatever name that might be) and take full credit for it while bashing the treasure hunters. Well as a treasure hunter and part of the treasure hunting community i have a responsibility to beat that process down before it gets a foothold. Right? Lay my own claim to the wreck as the original discoverer, Write a book about it.( academic book). Open the discussions about what ship it is. Publish pictures, videos, websites etc. Stay above the fray, prove that treasure hunters can do the job.
This was a major event in my life and will not care to go down as the bad guy treasure hunter. Nope that’s not going to happen. Not while I am still here. So my opinions may not be popular to some but I will continue to state them, and now more than ever.
I'm on a mission
CB
Also Mike if this turns out to be the San Miguel it will be the oldest known treasure transport ship ever discovered in this hemisphere. Had anybody else previously discovered this wreck and didn't lay claim to the discovery is very odd in my opinion. Unless there was a little funny business? So for that and because of my personal ship hunting techniques led to this discovery. (Sorry to those who disagree) but Capt Billy Rawson discovered this wreck while working for DBM. And if it turns out to be the San Miguel which i am about 95% positive it is then in the future my daughter can say her Dad was very instrumental in the discovery of one of the most important shipwrecks in this hemisphere and that and only that is why i am pushing this discovery to the next level.\
Mike, Mel Fisher searched for years in the wrong area for the Atocha because of one small error in the archives.
You would think with all this research you reference that someone would have finally discovered the San Miguel by now. Okay i know how elusive something as small as a sixteenth century shipwreck laying under the sand could be.
Heres the common sense approach to this: What I FOUND AND BROUGHT TO LIGHT was for sure a ship carrying the Kings treasure. Hard to refute that claim. Then the Spanish silver discs had the only one tax stamp. Here is why that is important: (and i have posted this before but will do it again for your sake) The ordencia of 1552 was laws handed down by the king changing how treasure ships needed to conduct themselves. No more free for all and anybody with a ship could transport treasure. They made a law that made sure each ship had sufficient armament and soldiers and not so many passengers that could hamper their ability to fight off privateers. There had to be qualified pilots and navigators. Along with that law they changed how the silver and gold would be transported. All silver needed to have the Kings tax stamp proving that had been paid. Now each piece of silver and gold needed to have purity stamps owner marks, mint marks. The Padre Island fleet sailed when these new laws were being implemented. All the silver recovered from them ships had all these new mint marks. Our ship didn't. But because our ship had identical items on board and the ship fittings were also identical to that of the PI shipwrecks that i am certain our ship was from the exact same era. Minus the new mint marks. So obviously our ship set sail previously to these new laws but not much earlier.
The San Miguel lost its rudder and drifted ashore in the year of 1551. The padre is ships wrecked in 1554. Three years difference.
What other known Spanish Kings treasure transporting ship was lost on the north coast of Hispaniola? Only one i know of is the San Miguel. So how did all these researchers miss that little tidbit of info. How come i discovered a wreck-site that was absolutely positively carrying the kings treasure lost in any archives or overlooked by researchers? See what i am getting at. Any one of these people you mention in earlier post would have immediately claimed they found the San Miguel had they discovered it. One Christmas party at the subatico office Burt Webber stands up and congratulates Alejandro and DBM and myself for the discovery of the San Miguel. His theory was that the records show that the position may have been wrong had they believed the tall area of rocks near Cabrera was that of Cabo Cabron.
However that doesn't prove much but could be right. Now our biggest concern was the "L" series coins. Here is why.
Nesmith claims the L series coins went into production in 1556. That would immediately eliminate our ship from being the San Miguel. However the 1554 Padre Island shipwrecks had the L series coins that would have been minted the previous year 1553. So now the only real problem naming our ship lies within this dilemma. This is very important to coin collectors as the P.I. wrecks now proved Nesmith wrong and our ship could even date the coins two years earlier. If the only true researcher of these coins has been proved wrong because of the PI wrecks then who is to say in 1551 the San Miguel wasn't also carrying these new series of coins?
My new book has nothing about the naming of this ship. My new book is a memoir of my life starting in the Florida Keys in 1972 spanning through the years of smuggling and my years of commercial fishing and then here searching and excavating a treasure ship. Its funny My next book and what a challenge it is, is a book about what we just discussed. Anybody who vehemently denies this ship is not the San Miguel must have found the real one. Other than that there is plenty of wiggle room to believe this wreck very well could me of that of the San Miguel.
Nice little video i made with a few of the 17000 pictures and documentation of three and a half years of excavating a Spanish treasure transport ship. Turn the volume up and enjoy. And Mike i welcome these debates but please bring original material to the table and not just some cut and paste material that anybody and the brother can get on line.\
https://vimeo.com/150100357\
I have more proof that this is the San Miguel than anybody i know can prove its not. Thats a subject of my next book. As far as someone discovering this wreck previously i sure would like to see their findings. I have a full archaeological report and three years excavating with 17000 photos and documentation to prove it. As soon as someone can show me they excavated the same wreck previously i will back down on my claim. This government never knew it existed till i found it and to this day thy call it the SAN MIGUEL.
Nobody will ever be able to refute my claim. Count on that. And what we recovered shows this wreck was a year or two before the Padre Island shipwrecks. Being how this wreck was identical to those and a few years earlier sure puts our wreck perfect in the range of the San Miguel.
My claim is backed up with plenty of documentation and research. And guess what nobody will be able to prove its not the San Miguel until the real one is found. So far that hasn't happened. And won't. So anyway i am not just someone guessing, i have lots of proof.
So for now Capt Billy Rawson discovered the possible remains of the SAN Miguel. With one book published (coming soon) and another book nearly done.
Funny you would think if they were to breach a contract they should have waited for us to find the mother lode. Taking away companies paying contract fees and sound archaeological work to let the thief's take over doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Merry Christmas everybody
funny, my book covers a life time of searching for the ultimate treasure. Ending with the middling success of personally discovering the oldest known Spanish treasure transport ship in this hemisphere. With a very good chance being the much sought after San Miguel.
ho-hum
lmao
The book will have photos, black and white. I sent off few and told the publisher to use what he thought was best. The cover will be in color. That is being done now. I will have the final say with the cover.
True blue its done. Just met with the publisher tonight. It will be available on or before Jan. 1st.
A memoir that covers all of my tenure w/ DBM, and then some.
All about the treasure, what treasure hunter and treasure finder didn't publish a book?
CB
Well great news, at least wilf sold one of his books, what did that cost you?
Cabin Boy was a great book for fifth graders.
Gotta give the guy credit for taking the time to write it. Was kind of the incentive to write my book
My book even derrel nether will appreciate. But maybe not because this book WILL NOT BE FOR FIFTH GRADERS!!!. Kind of counting on nether quoting my book for years to come.
And he will
CB
Zdiver,
still new to this publishing thing. I was told that i need to do book signing appearances or something like that?
I dont have PM options but have tried several times to email you.
CB
That book probably would have remained on my computer for five more years considering the procrastinator i am.
Down here there are very few Americans and when you hear someone speaking English you usually find a way to strike up a conversation. One of these times was a book publisher from New York. So i mentioned that i had scribbled down a story.
He was here looking for stories so he asked to read it. Since that day he has me working day and night to get it finished.
Now there is the publisher. editor and cover artist all working to have a Jan. Launch date.
With all the recent news about treasure, corrupt governments, and reneging on contracts the book fits perfect for the times. And what better a book for all the investors to read. its all there.
Meantime its still chicken and shrimp flavored Ramen soup for dinner.
Anybody want to buy any dive equipment i need some more noodles.
LMAO
Anybody been watching in the news lately about a shipwreck off of Colombia. Seems like these governments are more than happy to let foreign companies search for wrecks, but not so keen on splitting the rewards. Sure sounds familiar.
My book should be out in Jan, for anybody who wants to read about my experience on this matter.
I would imagine a division would save the company. Not sure what else could? Even if DBM didn't receive a contract to go with it. There could be international news and new interest in the company, maybe a stint or two on some international news show, and with revenue from the treasure and for sure some more publicity, meaning a higher PPS, with that maybe even other options open up?
No officials down here has told me its over. Best i can guess we are still on hold.
Thanks Neb for keeping it real, staying positive, and giving us all hope.
C.B.
Thanks Neb and right back at you. And the same to all the rest of the DBM supporters.
A few of us Gringos managed to find a turkey, so for the first time in seven years i might actually have a turkey dinner.
Not sure if my chicken digestive system can handle this turkey thing?
Happy Thanksgiving everybody.
CB&family
We were never able to approach those coordinates given to me. Shallow water and rough seas stopped us from getting to have a look at it. The two wrecks i was shown by fishermen were quite a bit north of that so i stand corrected.
Dbm was already in the process of building a museum before we were even considered a contract of our own. The decision to give DBM a contract was because they liked our work, and the museum happened to be in the finishing touches when the final decision was being made to give us a contract. So it helped. No way was the museum the sole reason to give us a contract. While we were waiting to see if we were to receive a contract the sub-contract with Bowden was winding down. At that point we had nothing. Then came the opportunity to submit a contract for Punta Cana. And then what happens, during that process we do receive our own search and inventory permission letter on the north coast, we were allowed to explore the area of the north coast, which still, we may or may not receive a contract for. And less than two weeks we discovered a treasure wreck. At that point we still didn’t have the contract as one person hadn’t signed and was holding out. Finally when she did sign we had a contract of 42 miles on the north coast with at least one wreck yielding treasure. Also during that time we received the Punta Cana concession. Trying to juggle both contracts Punta Cana and the north coast was going to be very impractical and nearly impossible. Punta Cana had a great area but had placed some very strict policies on the salvaging company. I think when all was said and done the salvage company would have received only twelve and a half percent from total recoveries and that included the split with the government. And they wanted a full time archeologist with daily reports. So we would have had to hire a second archeologist. It just wasn’t going to happen. Again I was not the decision maker so how the company bailed out of that contract it had nothing to do with me. We did take both ships there for a preliminary inspection of the area and found a few wrecks. I believe the one wreck we found through fishermen was the wreck Bobby later salvaged. I would have loved to been the one who salvaged that shipwreck but I also am very satisfied with the wreck we did get to salvage on the north coast. Couldn’t be two places at the same time.
Samana was our base of operations since day one. We built a dock for our boats there we also hired an all Dominican crew who all happened to live in Samana. It was a perfect harbor for our boats. That’s why we decided to have a museum there. I know hindsight is twenty twenty but with the cruise ships it did make some sense to have a museum there. And the plan was to have several museums throughout the country but the first one out of convenience was to be in Samana. I do still have the email to our CEO explaining we needed at our museum cold beer loud music and food and pretty scantly clothed bartenders. Hey when in Rome, right? But as you could probably imagine how that went over with a Mormon CEO. I still believe that’s the way to go. In a loud Caribbean nation we put a very quiet conservative museum. Wish I had that to do over again.
Several times a month Dominican fishermen come by my house to show me artifacts they have recovered. I take pictures tell them what they found then send the pictures to ONCPS. I am making the government aware of this dire problem. With contractors they receive fifty percent, 3000 American dollars and a spot-on archeologist report. Now they receive pictures of artifacts that are being either melted down for scrap metal prices or sold to tourists. I heard that Danillo don’t like his island nation being exploited by foreigners. Well that’s funny because without the foreigners who would or could conduct these operations in such a corrupt government with zero resources. I heard last night the government renewed its contract with Barret gold mining. Not to be too harsh on the Dominicans but how long would it take before this government had the resources or the sophisticated equipment to do these things on their own?
I have been here long enough to know, if a thousand government bucks was allotted to a national treasure hunting company that probably three pesos would show up to the Captain and crew to do the work. Then how much treasure would make it back up the pecking order. Not one thing. They need outside companies to do these types of work. I think they are well aware of this. I am even hearing some inside rumblings to get the contractors back to work ASAP.
Then if DBM received its division and a new contract that I firmly believe the doors of DBM will open again regardless of what is being said here.
It must be nice to talk about constructing a museum and how we almost maybe had one could have thought about it but didn’t. But guess what DBM actually built a museum and at the time we were recovering world class artifact’s, our terrible rendition of a museum had its own conservatory. Had it continued the loaned artifacts could have been returned to the government and replaced with very precious artifacts recovered by DBM. I had a meeting a few months after the museum closed down with Wilfredo Benitez head of Subautico his question to me was why the museum failed. How can we help other companies in the future to sustain a museum? He was genuinely concerned. First of all Samana is not exactly your culture center of the world. After living here in Samana (going on eight years) I can tell you this had to be the worse town ever to build a musum, to think any of these townsfolks have on iota of a clue about their rich heritage is a joke. Then when so many people on the street are begging or trying to sell you cell phone covers or something or another, the tourist become very wary of spending money on anything. Most I see with hands in pockets heads down and cant wait to get back on the cruise ship. If you really wanted a museum to survive in this town or most towns down here you would need cold beer and Batchata music blasting from the worse speaker arrangements known to man. Not exactly a museum friendly land. Example where is the Dominican national museum and how does that fare compared to if it was the States.
DBM’s museum won us the contract that brought incredible lost artifacts to light and saved from looters. DB tried to do the right thing. Even making sure each ship that was sent here was not empty. Always stuffed full of goods for the poor people of this nation.
That’s what I did. I sailed each ship here and ran the diving operations. Any question pertaining to my involvement in diving and recovering treasure I would be happy to entertain. Any questions pertaining to the business end of this company you will need to direct elsewhere. I am not saying that to be mean or harsh because I also wish I had those answers. I have done everything asked of me by this company and this government and look where that got me.
In the worse predicament of my life.
I really have no idea wilfs plan? I believe there are still big investors sitting out there on the side-lines somewhere. They probably remind wilf very often about their investment. I am only guessing but IMHO they will make sure the doors to DBM will open again one day. Maybe there are special circumstance by SEC rules? considering the blatant breech of contract. I bet it isnt more than paying a small fine and saying hes sorry with a tear in his eye. He probably has that maneuver down by now.
I dont know? Trying my best to survive, staying put for now. And with the knowledge of the area and all the wrecks surely one day these things will come in use again.
JMO
When I google Gudgeon and Pintle I found several pieces that resemble this one the fishermen brought by my house. What I found was mostly this type would be from mid-1800’s, and likely from a Clipper-ship. Then easy enough to google what were clipper ships doing in this area. Clipper ships were used to make quick sail routes to and from California from the New England states. Their out-bound route they sailed as far off the coast they could to get the best winds. Their return trip they sailed up the east coast of South America and the Caribbean chain to the Gulf Stream and back to New England. Of course they could have had many different cargo’s. However in this era they transported the mined gold coming from the California gold rush. That’s nice because the local story about this wreck is a small square gold bar with writing on it had been recovered from here.
I have done a few dives here lately and the wreck is spread across a large area. This was not a simple grounding. It appears to me this ship was wrecked during a violent storm.
Another wreck logged into this Gringo’s log book.
Hoping anything is left when we ever get back to work. This rudder piece was shown to me by fishermen probably mid 19th century. Fishermen still working away, wonder what percentage the government receives and what archaeologists they use? Cool looking piece was half tempted to buy it from them. But knowing these guys they scrapped it for bronze prices. About three beers worth.
Watergate, deflategate and the never ending computergate. Like somehow a computer was center stage for an act of corruption.
Flmfao.
Like I posted earlier this month we gave a computer to the ONPCS to follow the daily recoveries. We enter it into our data base and pass the exact same info to the government to enter it into their computer with the same program. (That we as a company donated) They must have like our methods being how we were awarded a contract that soon afterward (like two weeks afterwards) we discovered the oldest Spanish treasure transporting shipwreck on the island and possible this hemisphere. (IMHO the San Miguel. ) All for a $400 computer. Again flmfao.
Big foot, alien moon bases and Billy lied. We read about it all the time without ever a shred of proof.
Let me translate this document for you, it says:
"Billy we love you man" and thanks for the computer.
Porman,
I have no problem sharing what i know. Because i live here and trying to find work is not going to happen. So for that i need to stay as updated as possible. I never push for a date or a definite yes or no, alls i ask is to be notified if and when its over?
And i haven't been told that. And i believe if it is over i will be the first to know.
What is happening is they are learning without companies like DBM their heritage is being robbed. So if they care in the slightest bit they better start handing out contracts again.
And my personal opinion is the DR is also responsible for the heritage of many nationalities and if its their own people stealing these artifacts of other nations they better figure something out and quick.
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