Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship by Robert Kurson

Author:Robert Kurson [Kurson, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-08T16:00:00+00:00

Mattera had one more appointment to keep. In ways, he looked forward to this one most of all.

Carl Fismer had a reputation for being a maestro in a business full of great storytellers. He was also known for his honesty and integrity; as with Haskins, his close friend, it had probably cost him several fortunes. He’d worked on some important wrecks, including Concepción. And he’d worked in Samaná Bay. Many said that “Fizz” knew even more about human nature than about treasure.

Generations of salvors knew Fizz’s story. He’d worked for General Motors in Cincinnati but despised it; every day seemed the same to him there. He moved to Florida in 1968, after his wife, who’d been his high school sweetheart, was killed in an automobile accident. She was just twenty-six. Punching the clock didn’t feel right to Fizz after that. He gathered his two young children, packed his car, and drove south.

In Sarasota, he joined the fire department, the closest thing he could find to a paying adventure. Practicing body recovery on a fireboat, he came across a shipwreck, a small freighter busted open and showing its copper pipes. Fizz and the other firemen salvaged what they could. In the end, the haul netted the men a total of $6.40, but the idea that he could take money from water inspired Fizz, and from that day he was hooked.

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