The Atocha was a Spanish treasure ship that sank in 1622 after the storm, just two days after leaving a port in Cuba.
As a young boy,Mel Fisher uesd to spend hours reading books about pirates and the sea, such as Treasure Island and Moby Dick.
He wanted to conquer the ocean.
So Mel learned to dive, and he opened a scuba store in a california.
He started searching for treasure off Florida, and in 1964, he found over 1000 gold coins
from a ships that had sunk in 1715.
But the lost Atocha fascinated him.