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Listen: The Blues ProgramDivers release artifacts from the trap from the Capitana wreck site - Plantation Key, Florida .
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Accompanying note "This four armed creature dumping the contents of the wire basket is actually caused by Fred being behind Art. The heavier peires of debris will form a neat pile on the floor of the sea where the drivers will examine each piece, keep the artifacts and discard the trash."
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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