Mel found the first silver coin from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha in 1971 to the site of the main pile in '85. Florida officials maintained that wrecks discovered within Florida's three-mile territorial waters belonged to the state. Fisher took his fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which awarded him all the artifacts from the Atocha. His storybook life was sullied in recent years with accusations of fraud. Last year, a judge ordered Fisher's company to hand over booty from a sunken Spanish galleon for ruining more than an acre of protected sea grass off the Florida Keys while looking for shipwrecks.
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