Four Treasures Reference Database
Record No. 1994

The trouble with treasure

Journal Article
Lyon, E. (1976) The trouble with treasure. National Geographic, Vol. 149, No. 6, June, pp. 787–809.
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beryl, emerald, Colombia, gems
After five years of searching, determined divers found remnants of Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank off Florida in 1622. But tragedy and legal entanglements have dogged their efforts and, as this article is written, the big prize—more than 90 percent of a treasure worth perhaps 100 million dollars—still eludes them.