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1733 SPANISH GALLEON LA CAPITANA EL RUBI EL SEGUNDO |
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  FRIDAY THE 13TH IS A LUCKY DAY IN THE KEYS FOR THE HISTORIC 1733 SPANISH GALLEON LA CAPITANA EL RUBI EL SEGUNDO
This Friday the 13th will yield a treasure trove that provides convincing evidence of the date’s infamous history. It was on the same notorious day in the same month of July, but the year was 1733 when the decision to launch a great Spanish treasure galleon fleet was carried out…and just as a massive, but unseen hurricane was approaching just over the horizon.
As a result, we know now that the two forces went on to collide, leaving the great majority of the more than 20 gold and silver laden ships sunk along the reef just off the Florida Keys.
Though the calamity remains one of North America’s worst maritime disasters, it would take several hundred years before very important but otherwise obscured and long forgotten histories of the fleet - and the whereabouts of the seemingly endless amount of treasure – could be pieced together by early keys divers.
To acknowledge these events a special anniversary event will take place Friday whereby actual – amazing relics of the fleet will be unveiled in an exhibit on Key Largo.
The event is free and will commence at 2:pm at Captain Slate’s Atlantis Dive Center. Capt. Slate has owned and operated the largest dive operation in the keys since 1978. “ I am overwhelmed that the owner Max Walchuk has chosen my operation to be the home of these cherished and keys historic relics of a famous era in our world history.” Slate said, “ and now they are preserved here for all to see thanks to Max and his generosity, we cannot underestimate the value these relics play in the Keys history”.
The three cannon and huge anchor from the famous ‘ La Capitana El Rubi El Segundo’ are owned by Max and have been stored and preserved in an air-conditioned warehouse in Miami. Max is a former fire department commander from Chicago and who now lives on Key Largo. Max is also the founder of the National Foundation for Public Safety and through this organization has donated emergency resources such as fire trucks and ambulances to communities in need.
“Hopefully people will come by on Friday for this historic event”, Slate said, “These relics so embody the adventuresome spirit of those who discovered and created these United States I am very proud to be there new home, here in the Florida Keys where they were discovered”.
(Capt. Slate’s Atlantis Dive Center is located on US 1 just as you enter the Florida Keys in Key Largo (MM 106.5). For more information on the showing of these artifacts, contact Captain Slate’s at 800-331-3483)
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