NewsWhore
04-08-2011, 06:40 PM
Deep Blue Marine Inc. announces that the company has received permission from the government of the Dominican Republic for the development of a serial-type television project based on the work Deep Blue Marine performs in the company's contracted area located on the north shore of the Dominican Republic. The company also maintains a museum with underwater artifacts in Samana city.
A Utah-based underwater diving discovery and recovery company, Deep Blue Marine Inc. located last summer the wreckage of a ship overloaded with treasure that sank along the rocky shores off Samana some 475 years ago.
"We have found a shipwreck that we can definitively date back to 1535," Deep Blue Marine CEO Wilf Blum as reported in deseretnews.com
"We have also found artifacts that are still in the Dominican Republic that date back to the pre-Columbian era. When you think about that, this is significant. This shipwreck is just a few years after Columbus, and it is the single oldest shipwreck ever found in the Caribbean.
Deep Blue Marine Inc. has a contract with the sub-aquatic ministry of the Ministry of Environment for works at the ship now named Rawson's Wreck, for the captain of the ship that discovered the wreckage, Capt. William Rawson. The company is currently exploring other sites.
"We have a contract which includes, I think, about 42 miles of coastline," Rawson said. "Our contract allows us to keep 50 percent of all artifacts recovered and, right now, we have 13 wrecks that we are currently working."
The company found Rawson's Wreck by obtaining an ancient coin from a local fisherman.
"We found it was one of the oldest coins ever minted in the New World. We did some more research on where the (local fisherman) found the coin and little by little we found pieces of the shipwreck, which led us to where we are now," Rawson said.
Deep Blue Marine, Inc. believes their discovery to be the oldest colonial shipwreck in the Caribbean. "We have artifacts here that we can date to 1535," Blum said. "The only other fleet we know of that is older than this is the 1502, and it's never been discovered."
Among the discovery were some of the first coins ever minted in the new world, ancient mirrors, musket balls and Mayan artifacts and jewelry.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)
A Utah-based underwater diving discovery and recovery company, Deep Blue Marine Inc. located last summer the wreckage of a ship overloaded with treasure that sank along the rocky shores off Samana some 475 years ago.
"We have found a shipwreck that we can definitively date back to 1535," Deep Blue Marine CEO Wilf Blum as reported in deseretnews.com
"We have also found artifacts that are still in the Dominican Republic that date back to the pre-Columbian era. When you think about that, this is significant. This shipwreck is just a few years after Columbus, and it is the single oldest shipwreck ever found in the Caribbean.
Deep Blue Marine Inc. has a contract with the sub-aquatic ministry of the Ministry of Environment for works at the ship now named Rawson's Wreck, for the captain of the ship that discovered the wreckage, Capt. William Rawson. The company is currently exploring other sites.
"We have a contract which includes, I think, about 42 miles of coastline," Rawson said. "Our contract allows us to keep 50 percent of all artifacts recovered and, right now, we have 13 wrecks that we are currently working."
The company found Rawson's Wreck by obtaining an ancient coin from a local fisherman.
"We found it was one of the oldest coins ever minted in the New World. We did some more research on where the (local fisherman) found the coin and little by little we found pieces of the shipwreck, which led us to where we are now," Rawson said.
Deep Blue Marine, Inc. believes their discovery to be the oldest colonial shipwreck in the Caribbean. "We have artifacts here that we can date to 1535," Blum said. "The only other fleet we know of that is older than this is the 1502, and it's never been discovered."
Among the discovery were some of the first coins ever minted in the new world, ancient mirrors, musket balls and Mayan artifacts and jewelry.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)