And it was a real sea going thing, you never had to bail it out – that log lasted…I guess it was 8 or ten years before the ship worms ate it up.
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When you were down there on the bottom, with probably 20 feet of water over you and you could see all the fish and you were there – that really excites me right up.
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There are various ways of looking for shipwrecks. Sometimes scanners and detectors are no substitute for experienced eyes:
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There were signs of old wrecks on the reefs but few had gone looking for them. The first step to hunting for treasure was taken in the imagination.
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The San Pedro was the first real treasure that was ever found on Bermuda’s reef and was described as the most significant treasure haul found in the western hemisphere.
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Teddy never set out to promote Bermuda but his discoveries caught the attention of a global audience. “Teddy Tucker took Bermuda to the world and the world to Bermuda.”
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There can’t have been many children diving in the 1960s but much of Wendy Tucker’s childhood was spent on or under the water.
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The movie 'The Deep' is a fictional blanket wrapped around the real life discoveries of Teddy Tucker on the wreck of the Constellation.
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An insatiable curiosity about life in the ocean drew Teddy to the edge of the reef platform and to look into the unknown.
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For a time Bermuda was the centre of the wreck hunting world but by the late 1980s it was coming under pressure, from within.
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In July 2013, photographers David Doubilet and David Littswagger teamed up with Teddy to record the life of the area of open ocean called the Sargasso Sea.
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In the 1950s, strange sounds where detected coming from the ocean. From a secret military facility on Tudor Hill, Bermuda, Frank Watlington was listening
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The re-introduction to Bermuda of the West Indian Top Shell, a large marine snail, is credited as one of the island’s greatest conservation success stories
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Teddy’s hand written account of the discovery of the Tucker Cross and the treasures of the San Pedro adds a surprising twist to the story
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