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Listen: The Blues ProgramSkin diver's fins line up on the salvage boat during Capitana salvage - Plantation Key, Florida .
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Accompanying note "Skin divers fins lined up on salvage boat working the wreck of Spanish galleon sunk in 1733."
Biographical Note
Art McKee (1910-1980) was a civil engineer who searched for sunken treasure in the Florida Keys. In 1937, he was shown by a local fisherman the wreckage off Plantation Key that turned out to be the remains of Spanish treasure ship, the Capitana, El Rubi Segundo which wrecked in 1733. For years, he and his men searched the wreckage, eventually opening on Plantation Key the first museum dedicated to excavated wrecks, the Sunken Treasure Museum.
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