Silver Bar Discovery #2 – Blake Explains the History Behind the Atocha Silver Bar

https://hunt.melfisher.com/ Lead Diver Blake Baker explains the history behind the 22.5-pound silver bar recently recovered from the wreck site of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha. Learn how Spanish silver bars were produced, transported across the Atlantic, and loaded aboard the treasure fleets bound for Spain. Blake also discusses why silver bars were among the most important cargo carried aboard the Atocha when the ship sank during a hurricane in 1622. The silver bar recovered by the crew of the DARE marks the first silver bar recovered by the Fisher team from the Atocha site since 1999.