He had a small compressor and sold "breathing" air as well as scuba equipment and parts. Mel Fisher opened his first dive shop in a small feed shed on the family chicken ranch. Mel continued to pursue his interest in diving while he helped with the ranch and also studied animal husbandry at El Camino College. In 1950, Mel moved with his parents to Torrance, California. Before being shipped over-seas to Europe with the Army Engineers, he studied at the University of Alabama where he was later awarded an honorary doctorate.Īfter the war, Mel restlessly moved to Chicago and Denver, then to Florida where he again pursued his primary interest in diving. He was trained and served with the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers. With the outbreak of World War II, Mel went into the U.S.Army. He attended Purdue University, where he studied engineering and led his own 21-piece band. Mel Fisher formed his first dance band while attending Lew Wallace High School at Glen Park, Indiana. Grace Sprencel Fisher and her sisters were gifted in music and dance. Mel learned carpentry skills from his father, Earl Fisher, and his musical talents seemed to come from his mother's side of the family. But at age eleven, Mel Fisher made his own first "hard hat" diving outfit to use in a mud-bottomed lagoon. There were no oceans to conquer in Hobart and Glen Park, Indiana. He also read about the exploits of deep sea divers in their bulky "hard hat" suits who were just beginning the exploration of the sub-sea world. Mel Fisher's dreams of treasure began in childhood with the reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, and about pirates of the "Spanish Main". Mel Fisher found what adventurous souls through centuries had only dreamed of finding! He had found the "rainbow's end" including stacks of silver bars, chests of silver coins, gold, jewels, and thousands of other unique artifacts from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha. The dream that had consumed Mel Fisher for more than 16 years now came true before the eyes of the world. Unit 1, this is Unit 11." From aboard the vessel Dauntless of which he was captain, Kane told his beaming father: "Put away the charts. The marine radio crackled to life in the Key West, Florida office of Mel Fisher at Treasure Salvors, Inc. that amazing day, Mel Fisher learned from his son Kane that his greatest dream had been realized. Jwas "the day" at last when Mel Fisher, the world's greatest treasure hunter, found his dream of dreams, the priceless treasure cargo of the fabled lost Spanish galleon Atocha.Īt 1:05 p.m. Originally written by Bleth McHaley & Wendy Tucker This is the story of Mel and his family's search through the years.
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