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Listen: The Blues ProgramFred Logan and Art McKee at the wreck site of Capitana, El Rubi Segundo - Plantation Key, Florida .
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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.
Accompanying note "McKee moves ballast rock and Logan directs nozzle end of air lift McKee built himself for sucking the sand away from the wreck site. Small relics have trickled down between and beneath the pile of stone, protecting the little artifacts from sweeping currents and keeping them on the site."
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