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The Dream Weaver By Joseph B. Maclnnis KEY WEST September 20, 1985: MEL FISHER has a new dream. You can see it in his eyes. On this particular evening he is outside where he belongs, in the fresh air, away from the turmoil of the office, under a pink cloud sky and a sun easing itself below the western horizon. Friday evening marks the end of a long, hard week, and Mel Fisher and his staff at Treasure Salvors are hosting a party on the sun-deck, poolside at the Ocean Key House, in Key West. More than 200 people who have come here from as far away as Alaska and California have come for one reason. “He would steal the hubcaps off your car,” “No one can find treasure like he can.’ “He’s unscientific. And he doesn’t give a damn about our heritage” “He’s given more opportunities to more people than anyone I know’ What does Fisher think of all this? It’s hard to tell. To see him moving through this crowd of well wishers is to see a man at ease. He is one of them, And they know it. Treasure is in their blood. In each chest gathered tonight on this sundeck, including a clutch of visiting scientists, beats the heart of a gold seeker. Fisher’s beginnings in the To see The Man. To get close to the magic, maybe even talk to Mel Fisher, the world’s greatest treasure finder. Even close up, Fisher is like a pointillist painting a man whose outlines are hard to make out. He is 63 years old and stands six feet, four inches tall, The soft grey eyes look out at the world through sun reflecting glasses; a gold doubloon hangs carelessly around his neck. He walks through the crowd of admirers, a Benson and Hedges not far from his lips, smiling, shaking hands, frequently laughing. Atocha gold bars, silver bars, and Columbian emeralds. There is a gentle irony here. Fisher, who has spent half a lifetime searching for treasure, has now found so much of it that he has invited these good people to the first annual “Mel Fisher Treasure Hunt.” Would you like to play a game? Tucked away somewhere in the leafy streets of Key West Intricate gold chain.(Photo by Don Kincaid © 1976)or buried under its gritty coral or submerged below its blue waters — is a $10,000 Colombian emerald and a $50,000 Spanish gold bar. Fisher has a rough, cornhusk sense of humor. Refreshingly self mocking. In his office is a note pad with the inscription: “To err is human but it sure feels great,” In an hour. during the “official” part of the evening, he will tell the audience: “It took an act of Congress to chase the pirates out of Key West and they are still here.” Like all individuals who have outdone themselves, Fisher is aware of his reputation. He has been glorified and pilloried beyond the boundaries of logic. Some samples: “Mel Fisher is a giant, a living legend” game are now history lie was born in Indiana. with a rusty spoon in his mouth. He quickly learned there was no free ride. He also quickly learned the nuts-and-bolts of entrepreneurship, the get-in-there-and-get-your-hands-dirty stuff. There was the SCUBA shop and school in California. The thousands of pieces of equipment sold and thousands of divers taught. The underwater films. The travel to faraway places. And the first sniff of treasure. Bronze astrolabe from the Atocha\'s pilot. By 1963, Mel Fisher was in Florida and in partnership with the late Clifford “Kip” Wagner, founder of the treasure hunting outfit known as Real “8”. For months they dove and divined the sea-reaches south of Cape Kennedy, peering through thee masks for the elusive glitter. Surrounded by friends and his wife Deo, he dove and he built and he dove and he schemed and he dove and then one day he hit it a carpet of gold. Coins, thousands of them, sun hot to the eye, lying on the sand. So many of them that when he took his wet suit off and

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