Deep Blue Marine (DPBE)

[Capt.Billy]

Fuel would be a start, unfortunately with fuel comes food and personnel. In this country labor may be cheaper than the states but everything else is nearly tripled.
I think if our company could demonstrate that our artifacts were being traded up for better equipment and more constant and professional work being done that our divisions would reflect that. I know the "auctioning off" of a coin like that would bring much needed attention to our company. If the coins werent being sold? i am sure this govement would rather them be sitting on their desk rather than ours? Of course thats only my opinion.
Here i like this photo as it shows the iron ship to the right and the whole lake of sand. Maybe in the photo it looks like a small area of sand but put on your dive gear and swim that distance and you will see how much sand covers this area.
My estimate is we have only uncovered about 5% of that sand. To say we were completely finished would require us to completely remove every grain of that sand. That would take time as we are only using the "air-lifts" and the sand never leaves the area. A high-powered dredge ran by a diesel powered pump would make short work of this project.
Look how close the iron ship is to where were working. This year we found coins and iron spikes right up against the iron ship. It is possible that ship covers some of the Spanish ship. What a job that would be to move the iron ship from on-top of our wreck. But that would be a chore i would certainly want to attempt and to get started on asap if that was the case.
The three reales all came from the same little pocket. There was eight coins in that pocket and three of them were the three reales. Strange as none have been found anywhere else.


Here is an underwater photo of the iron ship. This photo does no justice as this ship is massive.