That’s because the anchor’s still there, the cannonballs are linked to a specific period and Seafarer has found 1,000 items whose era can be determined.
“Nails, barrel rings, pottery, cannon balls, musket balls, lead sheeting, (and) serpentine jade,” a type of stone used for ballast, Kennedy said.
But he’s also found pieces of what he said is priceless Ming-era china. And he believes he eventually will find gold, silver, emeralds, and perhaps more.
He said he showed what he had to the Mel Fisher salvage group, and was told whatever’s there potentially is worth $4 billion to $5 billion,”because of the size of the ship and the age of the ship and what ships of those era carried.”
Kennedy said he has years ahead of him before he realizes his dream. He said current scanners have found scores of iron items but any gold or silver can’t be spotted that far down. He said he hopes future technology will change that. He also said he doesn’t believe anyone else has recovered any of whatever’s buried way beneath the ocean floor; “if someone found something, they’d have said something.”
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