Sal Guttoso, manager of 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels, LLC, has applied for a federal permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to continue salvage operations on ten shipwreck sites from the ...

A Treasure Coast treasure hunter has reached a plea deal for his role in stealing buried treasure worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

As part of the plea deal, Schmitt will be placed on five years probation, where he will not be allowed to be part of any salvage operation.

Fort Pierce salvor Eric Schmitt avoided trial by pleading no contest to charges related to selling three Spanish gold coins from the 1715 Fleet.

The 1715 Fleet was carrying gold, silver, pearls, diamonds, emeralds and other jewels when the 11 Spanish ships sank in a hurricane that year.

The 1715 fleet was a group of Spanish ships that were sailing in July 1715 from Havana to Spain with treasures — gold, silver, artifacts and other treasure — when it got caught in a hurricane off ...

Story continued below>>> During that early morning in July 1715, the Spanish treasure fleet was caught by a severe hurricane while exiting the Bahama Channel.

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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recently announced the recovery of 37 gold coins stolen from the 1715 Fleet shipwrecks, valued collectively at more than $1 million. The 1715 ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recently announced the recovery of 37 gold coins stolen from the 1715 Fleet shipwrecks, valued collectively at more than $1 million.

Investigators recently recovered 37 stolen gold coins, worth over $1 million, from 1715 Fleet shipwrecks and returned them to their owners.