Category: Advanced analytics

It’s been an exciting time here at Aqua Survey.  Each week many of us wait to see what the team down in Key West will uncover next as we continue our work with Mel Fisher’s Treasures.  View the latest Atocha Video episode below which details the new developments in Aqua Survey’s search for the riches of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha. Play Video

Aqua Survey, Inc. was hired by Mel Fisher’s Treasures to survey a large area of the ocean bottom near Key West, FL in hopes of finding more treasure from the Nuestra Sénora de Atocha. It was weeks later after our data had been generated into maps that we began to see the fruits of our labor. The Mel Fisher divers brought up more than just treasure. We soon found out that the bottom of the ocean in this area is … Continue reading “Key West: Another Type of Treasure”

Aqua Survey, Inc. is pleased to announce the recovery of several “Pieces of Eight” and other artifacts from the most famous Spanish treasure galleon ever lost at sea, the Nuestra Sénora de Atocha. The discovery of carpenter’s tools, pottery shards, vessel spikes, musket balls and silver treasure resulted from more than a year’s planning and field work. Contracted by Mel Fisher’s Treasures, Aqua Survey’s technical staff developed an electromagnetic (EM) detection system that could be used 40 miles offshore. To … Continue reading “Key West: Treasure Recovered”

Many urban water bodies are crisscrossed with submerged or buried utilities while others are littered with uncharted munitions such as unexploded ordnance (UXO).  Utility markout services typically end at water’s edge.  Accurate as-built plans for submerged utilities are rare.  Over 200,000 submerged acres in the U.S. are suspected to contain uncharted UXO. Geophysical surveys reduce the probability coring equipment will strike a submerged UXO or utility causing property damage, lost service and imperil human life.  Tools such as sub-bottom profilers, … Continue reading “Controlling Uncertainty”