Deep Blue Marine (DPBE)

[Capt Billy]

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.