Off the coast of Key West, a crew of treasure divers just pulled up something that had not come out of the water in almost thirty years. Working the wreck site of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank in a hurricane back in 1622, divers with Mel Fisher's Shipwreck Expeditions recovered a 22.5-pound silver bar from about 50 feet of water off the Florida Keys. It is the first silver bar the team has pulled from the Atocha since 1999, and it is a reminder that even after decades of searching, this famous wreck still has more to give up. After four centuries, the sea still hasn't finished telling this story, releasing it slowly, piece by piece, as if reluctant to let the Atocha's history end.
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