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A "gold mine" at the bottom of the sea
posted on: Jan 9 2012 9:0 by RDugey. Viewed 32 times.
there could be nearly 500 shipwrecks along coasts of the country
Sack! It is the first word that could reach the mind of the person who hears or reads about "sunken treasure".
Perhaps images of nuggets of gold, precious stones and jewelry haunt the thoughts of those who try to launch to the bottom of the sea, to see if they are lucky in finding that only up to that point is a legend.
And no wonder. Tales of pirates in the Caribbean and the Galleons laden with gold with other metals and ancient artifacts that sailed through the waters of this continent are not Fables, although the idea of finding gold is a bit concerning, as the value of the objects there does not consider taking the material, but rather by his relationship with history.
After the colonization of the Americas, the Caribbean has become a sort of "underwater graveyard" evidence of the presence of Europe in the region.
By u000athat reason, there are people and institutions who are dedicated, exclusively, to the search for those objects that could appear in the ocean, some illegally, and others as a means of production, coming to shape international specialized companies in research and exploration of Galleons sunk.
Roberto Llerena, a journalist and Salvadoran diver with 30 years in the country, points out that "there in the Caribbean a country with so many wrecks in colonial times as Dominican Republic, including Haiti." "There could be more than 500 throughout the island".
Llerena, who was one of the divers who participated in the rescue of the count of Toulouse boat, explains that the Santo Domingo was a port for 1500, and also the branch of the House of recruitment in Seville, devoted to regulate trade and navigation of the Spaniards with America.
In addition, the director of archaeology of the company u000aExplorer's shipwreck Deep Blue Marine, Alejandro Selmi, said that there are shipwrecks on the island from 1492 to date, by the great movement of ships along the history.
"No can speak of a place specifically with more or less shipwrecks." "The coast of Dominican Republic has a great archaeological potential under its waters," adds the underwater archaeologist.
Business
in the country there are now five companies and institutions, legalized by the Government, which have concessions in various areas.
These are: treasures of the Caribbean (Caribbean Salvage S.A) of Tracy Bowden; Fundación Punta Cana, Paul Beswick; Anchor Research & Savalge, S.R.L., of Bobby Prichert; Deep Blue Marine, of Wilf Blun, and Indiana University, conducted by Charles Beeker, all located in some coasts of North, South and East. part
According to Llerena, these entities of archaeological rescue support primarily in what is known u000aas the archive of the Indies of the Spanish Crown, which functions as the only documentation of all the colonies site Spanish.
This building, located in the city of Seville, Spain, has about 43 thousand bundles with about 80 million pages and 8 thousand maps and drawings from journeys made by the merchant ships and troops Spaniards.
Llerena said that there can be the characteristics of the boat, the name of the captain and crew aboard, along with the passengers who sailed on this trip. This can be a more direct reference in the search and rescue of galleons.
However, Francis Soto, technical director of the national Office of Cultural Heritage underwater (ONPCS), indicates that by more sophisticated are the teams and by most historians to provide research, most of the remains are found by the locals.
"Always wrecks are found by" u000athe fishermen of the area, for more sophisticated are the teams. Hurricanes make the sea change everything. "Why sometimes come pieces to the surface and that gives them a reference," says Soto.
The expert says that "when appeared the Galleon Guadalupe, in 1976, the locals of Miches, El Seibo municipality, were selling bottles in the village and said they were taking"pieces of gold"." It was when the Navy intervened, kicking off the subsequent discovery of this ship built in 1702, in Spain.
Expedition
the search could last for some 15 days, but could be extended by years.
In the first day is installed the rescue vessel in the area and equipment are lowered to the bottom of the sea. Begin the work of cleaning and distributed the work of the divers.
As for the team, Selmi explains that in a project of rescue archaeological submarine requires a staff u000atrained for such work, consisting of a Chief of operations for equipment and personnel, as well as an underwater archaeologist head of the project and the digging.
Also said that there was a need for a group of trained and skilled divers. Now divers are using Dominicans.
A staff that is on the surface is responsible for the maintenance of the boats and the diving equipment which are necessary for a successful development of the activities.
Llerena adds also accompanies them a member of the Navy and a member of the Museum, which has a record of all the material removed from the water each day.
With regard to costs, Llerena and Selmi agree that are very high. "If you count that needed qualified personnel and sophisticated equipment for search and location of the wrecks (artefacts), a company can spend around 50 thousand to 60 thousand dollars monthly wages, maintenance of" u000a"teams and boats, fuel and food," said Selmi.
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List of NAUGRAFIOS recovered in RD
1. Our Lady of Guadalupe. 1976.
2. Scipion. 1977.
3. Count of Toulouse. 1977.
4. Our Lady of the Puera and clean design. 1978.
5. Nagua.
6. Diomedes. 1982.
7. Imperial. 1982.
8. Fleet of Ovando. 1983.
9. Boat of the pipes. 1986.
10. Laviatte. 1986.
11. 1985 Fianse.
12. Casimir (ship of crystals).
13. Ship of bricks. 1987.
14. Dragon (ship's cannons).
15. Ship of the musket balls
16. The three cannons.
17. Shipwreck of Christopher Columbus and Juan Aguado.
18. Quedah Merchant (Captain Kidd). 2007.
19. Wreck of Santo Domingo.
20. Ivory boat.
21. Shipwreck of Jacques - Yves Cousteau.
22. San Miguel. 2011.
RD chooses what remains
the u000aDirector of the national Office of Cultural Heritage underwater (ONPCS), Wilfredo Féliz, says that companies operating legally in the rescue of cultural property must give to the State 50 percent of the artifacts found, but anyway the Government is that chooses first and are not required to give half of the goods.
"We have the option to pay in cash, the best would be if we had the money and us them, but by the difficult awarding fi financial state, they are paid to them with goods found in the expedition," afi rma Féliz.
The official notes that the State has been with collections, such as the conception, of where extracted the ceramics of the Ming dynasty, which hangs in the fortress of the Santo Domingo area Colonial.
But should have unique wrecks (artefacts), Felix indicates that there are two options: purchase the good or is u000aIt rewards the rescuer company its economic value. Could also choose to give a number of coins that paid value.
On the other hand, Felix acknowledges that still are cases of looting and does not rule out that it occurs some kind of corruption among the caregivers notifi car to the Ofi cina pieces which are found. But insists that the ONPCS seeks to seafarers who are in the expedition to be quality-minded and recommended by their superiors.
It argues that the plan of the ONPCS is to ensure that the State will stay with all the responsibilities of the search for cultural property and not to give concessions to other companies.
For the situation, he explained that it has to prepare a staff of divers and archaeologists, as well as get teams.
Conservation
vessels sunk generally are not at high depths. According to expresses the diver photographer and architect, Pedro u000aBorrell, the Galleons found at depths of 30 to 60 feet.
On their side, Selmi estimated that for the majority of people there is still the image of a Galleon submerged with broken masts and full of treasures.
"This is fiction." "The reality is that the wrecks within 300-500 years are covered by layers of coral and muddy sand that disappear and blend with the sea bottom, so it is difficult to differentiate them and need special equipment to locate them," says.
The archaeologist points that the artifacts are located once divers engaged in excavating and removing cultural goods that are saturated salt and calcium, and that this could represent a danger if done without a proper maintenance procedure. He said that in the case of iron, the cannons and anchors can last for years in retained.
Charge of the conservation laboratory of the ONPCS, Isabel Brito Germán, said that the u000aconservation of wood is the most difficult.
With regard to the monetary value of the artifacts, the expert explained that a silver coin could be worth $60 and one gold to more than 200, but everything will depend on its relationship with history. Are generally sold to museums and collectors private.
There are also pieces that have a special value. Roberto Llerena cites as an example a medallion of gold found in the Toulouse named "La agenda de Santiago", that is, according to him, some 30 stones diamond and Ruby valued at over $ 1.5 million. "This Medallion was in possession of the State," assures.
Museum
while in the country found thousands of objects from the colonial, including collections of ceramics and glass, tableware the vast majority lie in the deposit of the ONPCS and others are on loan at other museums.
This is due to the ofi cial place destined for u000athese purposes, the Reales Atarazanas Naval Museum, located in the Zona Colonial, takes nearly eight years closed since its closure in 2004 renovation, according to the Director general of museums of the Ministry of culture, Ana María Conde.
"Was closed because there was plenty of moisture and fi ltración in the property, that came to affect the collection, although it was not damaged, but had to clean it and stabilize, because thanks to God, the majority of the materials in these collections was easy to clean up and stabilize to save in a warehouse," says.
Earlsays that at the fair of the book of the past year, the Ministry tried to seek funds for its reopening and already have ready design. "Do not have a date... that does not depend on me, but the outlay of the budget", says.
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A "gold mine" at the bottom of the sea
posted on: Jan 9 2012 9:0 by RDugey. Viewed 32 times.
there could be nearly 500 shipwrecks along coasts of the country
Sack! It is the first word that could reach the mind of the person who hears or reads about "sunken treasure". Perhaps images of nuggets of gold, precious stones and jewelry haunt the thoughts of those who try to launch to the bottom of the sea, to see if they are lucky in finding that only up to that point is a legend.
And no wonder. Tales of pirates in the Caribbean and the Galleons laden with gold with other metals and ancient artifacts that sailed through the waters of this continent are not Fables, although the idea of finding gold is a bit concerning, as the value of the objects there does not consider taking the material, but rather by his relationship with history.
After the colonization of the Americas, the Caribbean has become a sort of "underwater graveyard" evidence of the presence of Europe in the region.
By u000athat reason, there are people and institutions who are dedicated, exclusively, to the search for those objects that could appear in the ocean, some illegally, and others as a means of production, coming to shape international specialized companies in research and exploration of Galleons sunk.
Roberto Llerena, a journalist and Salvadoran diver with 30 years in the country, points out that "there in the Caribbean a country with so many wrecks in colonial times as Dominican Republic, including Haiti." "There could be more than 500 throughout the island".
Llerena, who was one of the divers who participated in the rescue of the count of Toulouse boat, explains that the Santo Domingo was a port for 1500, and also the branch of the House of recruitment in Seville, devoted to regulate trade and navigation of the Spaniards with America.
In addition, the director of archaeology of the company u000aExplorer's shipwreck Deep Blue Marine, Alejandro Selmi, said that there are shipwrecks on the island from 1492 to date, by the great movement of ships along the history.
"No can speak of a place specifically with more or less shipwrecks." "The coast of Dominican Republic has a great archaeological potential under its waters," adds the underwater archaeologist.
Business
in the country there are now five companies and institutions, legalized by the Government, which have concessions in various areas.
These are: treasures of the Caribbean (Caribbean Salvage S.A) of Tracy Bowden; Fundación Punta Cana, Paul Beswick; Anchor Research & Savalge, S.R.L., of Bobby Prichert; Deep Blue Marine, of Wilf Blun, and Indiana University, conducted by Charles Beeker, all located in some coasts of North, South and East. part
According to Llerena, these entities of archaeological rescue support primarily in what is known u000aas the archive of the Indies of the Spanish Crown, which functions as the only documentation of all the colonies site Spanish.
This building, located in the city of Seville, Spain, has about 43 thousand bundles with about 80 million pages and 8 thousand maps and drawings from journeys made by the merchant ships and troops Spaniards.
Llerena said that there can be the characteristics of the boat, the name of the captain and crew aboard, along with the passengers who sailed on this trip. This can be a more direct reference in the search and rescue of galleons.
However, Francis Soto, technical director of the national Office of Cultural Heritage underwater (ONPCS), indicates that by more sophisticated are the teams and by most historians to provide research, most of the remains are found by the locals.
"Always wrecks are found by" u000athe fishermen of the area, for more sophisticated are the teams. Hurricanes make the sea change everything. "Why sometimes come pieces to the surface and that gives them a reference," says Soto.
The expert says that "when appeared the Galleon Guadalupe, in 1976, the locals of Miches, El Seibo municipality, were selling bottles in the village and said they were taking"pieces of gold"." It was when the Navy intervened, kicking off the subsequent discovery of this ship built in 1702, in Spain.
Expedition
the search could last for some 15 days, but could be extended by years.
In the first day is installed the rescue vessel in the area and equipment are lowered to the bottom of the sea. Begin the work of cleaning and distributed the work of the divers.
As for the team, Selmi explains that in a project of rescue archaeological submarine requires a staff u000atrained for such work, consisting of a Chief of operations for equipment and personnel, as well as an underwater archaeologist head of the project and the digging.
Also said that there was a need for a group of trained and skilled divers. Now divers are using Dominicans.
A staff that is on the surface is responsible for the maintenance of the boats and the diving equipment which are necessary for a successful development of the activities.
Llerena adds also accompanies them a member of the Navy and a member of the Museum, which has a record of all the material removed from the water each day.
With regard to costs, Llerena and Selmi agree that are very high. "If you count that needed qualified personnel and sophisticated equipment for search and location of the wrecks (artefacts), a company can spend around 50 thousand to 60 thousand dollars monthly wages, maintenance of" u000a"teams and boats, fuel and food," said Selmi.
( )
List of NAUGRAFIOS recovered in RD
1. Our Lady of Guadalupe. 1976.
2. Scipion. 1977.
3. Count of Toulouse. 1977.
4. Our Lady of the Puera and clean design. 1978.
5. Nagua.
6. Diomedes. 1982.
7. Imperial. 1982.
8. Fleet of Ovando. 1983.
9. Boat of the pipes. 1986.
10. Laviatte. 1986.
11. 1985 Fianse.
12. Casimir (ship of crystals).
13. Ship of bricks. 1987.
14. Dragon (ship's cannons).
15. Ship of the musket balls
16. The three cannons.
17. Shipwreck of Christopher Columbus and Juan Aguado.
18. Quedah Merchant (Captain Kidd). 2007.
19. Wreck of Santo Domingo.
20. Ivory boat.
21. Shipwreck of Jacques - Yves Cousteau.
22. San Miguel. 2011.
RD chooses what remains
the u000aDirector of the national Office of Cultural Heritage underwater (ONPCS), Wilfredo Féliz, says that companies operating legally in the rescue of cultural property must give to the State 50 percent of the artifacts found, but anyway the Government is that chooses first and are not required to give half of the goods.
"We have the option to pay in cash, the best would be if we had the money and us them, but by the difficult awarding fi financial state, they are paid to them with goods found in the expedition," afi rma Féliz.
The official notes that the State has been with collections, such as the conception, of where extracted the ceramics of the Ming dynasty, which hangs in the fortress of the Santo Domingo area Colonial.
But should have unique wrecks (artefacts), Felix indicates that there are two options: purchase the good or is u000aIt rewards the rescuer company its economic value. Could also choose to give a number of coins that paid value.
On the other hand, Felix acknowledges that still are cases of looting and does not rule out that it occurs some kind of corruption among the caregivers notifi car to the Ofi cina pieces which are found. But insists that the ONPCS seeks to seafarers who are in the expedition to be quality-minded and recommended by their superiors.
He argues that the ONPCS plan is to ensure that the State will stay with all the responsibilities of the search for cultural property and not to give concessions to other companies.
For the situation, he explained that it has to prepare a staff of divers and archaeologists, as well as get teams.
Conservation
vessels sunk generally are not at high depths. According to expresses the diver photographer and architect, Pedro u000aBorrell, the Galleons found at depths of 30 to 60 feet.
On their side, Selmi estimated that for the majority of people there is still the image of a Galleon submerged with broken masts and full of treasures.
"This is fiction." "The reality is that the wrecks within 300-500 years are covered by layers of coral and muddy sand that disappear and blend with the sea bottom, so it is difficult to differentiate them and need special equipment to locate them," says.
The archaeologist points that the artifacts are located once divers engaged in excavating and removing cultural goods that are saturated salt and calcium, and that this could represent a danger if done without a proper maintenance procedure. He said that in the case of iron, the cannons and anchors can last for years in retained.
Charge of the conservation laboratory of the ONPCS, Isabel Brito Germán, said that the u000aconservation of wood is the most difficult.
With regard to the monetary value of the artifacts, the expert explained that a silver coin could be worth $60 and one gold to more than 200, but everything will depend on its relationship with history. Are generally sold to museums and collectors private.
There are also pieces that have a special value. Roberto Llerena cites as an example a medallion of gold found in the Toulouse named "La agenda de Santiago", that is, according to him, some 30 stones diamond and Ruby valued at over $ 1.5 million. "This Medallion was in possession of the State," assures.
Museum
while in the country found thousands of objects from the colonial, including collections of ceramics and glass, tableware the vast majority lie in the deposit of the ONPCS and others are on loan at other museums.
This is due to the ofi cial place destined for u000athese purposes, the Reales Atarazanas Naval Museum, located in the Zona Colonial, takes nearly eight years closed since its closure in 2004 renovation, according to the Director general of museums of the Ministry of culture, Ana María Conde.
"Was closed because there was plenty of moisture and fi ltración in the property, that came to affect the collection, although it was not damaged, but had to clean it and stabilize, because thanks to God, the majority of the materials in these collections was easy to clean up and stabilize to save in a warehouse," says.
Earlsays that at the fair of the book of the past year, the Ministry tried to seek funds for its reopening and already have ready design. "Do not have a date... that does not depend on me, but the outlay of the budget", says.
