metal which they found, that the ship must have dumped 

 part of her deck cargo on the outer reef, including the can- 

 non which had been salvaged earlier. She was then driven 

 by wind and sea, either on her side or listing heavily to one 

 side, to her present resting place, spilling stuff from the 

 decks all along her path. 



The magnetometer was also used in adjacent areas, 

 where there was reason to think there might be other 

 wreckage. To their delight, the men came across two more 

 piles of ballast stone which showed signs of the presence of 

 metal. These they carefully charted for future search. 



We have never been back. Since that summer Art 

 McKee has continued to salvage his wreck. Today he wears 

 a Scott mask instead of the heavy iron helmet which 

 formerly seemed a part of him, and uses the air lift, which 

 Ed left for him. Fie has continued to gather a fascinating 

 collection of artifacts for his Museum of Sunken Treasure. 



During the next two years, our own quest for elusive 

 shipwrecks led us increasingly toward the Bahama islands, 

 to the east. What we found there so intrigued us that we 

 lost interest temporarily in the more familiar keys. 



But in spite of the adventure and excitement that we 

 found while sailing the Bahamas and the adjacent Carib- 

 bean waters, where we explored and dove upon a goodly 

 number of reefs and banks, we have about come to the 

 conclusion that in these waters off the Florida keys, route 

 of the Spanish plate fleets and for centuries chief high- 

 way from the New World to Europe, there undoubtedly 

 still lie the greatest number of promising wrecks this 

 side of the Atlantic. 



102 Sea Diver 



