I do not post on this SFRX site although I do read it. For the sake of just good common sense I would like to point out the following;
In my opinion the Juno Beach wreck was a bust before it ever began. That site had been gone over by professionals of the likes of Bob Marx and Duke Long who was with Burt Webber when they discovered the 1641 Concepcion off of the Dominican Republic. No treasure or even decent artifacts of value have ever been recovered from that site and I challenge anyone to show documentation verifying the name of this ship and proof of ever having carried any treasure. What puzzles me is why this site was such a big deal for Seafarers?
I know nothing about the Lantana project or why Seafarers is there. I can make comment with regard to expectation of digging progress. I don't know the size of the blowers or the water depth they are working in but if less than 40 ft., twin 36" diameter props or larger (blowers down) can do a 25 ft. diameter hole 12 ft. deep in an hour, cranking at 1,000 rpm's (- or -).
As to the awaited for Site 3, I have with amusement read wild statements of expectations of a billion dollars or even more. I also noted that one of the posters tagged Jim Sinclair as having made this statement. I know Jim Sinclair. I don't know much about this Dr. John DeBry. First of all know that Sinclair is a respected Archaeologist, primarily a conservator. I do not know him to be an actual treasure hunter/treasure finder. Respecting his professionalism, I seriously doubt he ever made such a statement relating to this Site 3 possibly being with a billion dollars. While on the subject of "fantasy" values. Even the greatest of treasure discoveries made to date - "Atocha" 1622 and "Central America" 1657, ever came near even a half a billion dollars and that's stretching it.
I understand that this Site 3 is believed to possibly be a 1715 shipwreck. I believe it was also implied that this may be the missing "N.S. Concepcion" of that fleet. Unless I am wrong and unbeknown to me there were two "Concepcions" lost in that fleet disaster, I may be subject to correction for the following statement. The "Concepcion" that I'm aware of in that fleet loss was actually carrying a trivial amount of treasure which can be verified by archival documentation. As Seafarers has an accredited researcher named Dr.John DeBry, I'm confident that he can provide clarification to this issue with provision of the AGI Legajo references to provide same.
Good luck to you all in SFRX. As for me, I came out of a very bad deal with MEXP.
