Sir Francis Drake Adventure. Treasure. Silver. In 1579, the great English explorer, Sir Francis Drake, dumped over forty five tons of silver overboard. It is our mission to document the search, rescue, and retrieval of Drake’s treasure.

A JAGENT Production in collaboration with, “Operation South Seas”

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Who hath desired the sea?the immense and contemptuous surges? The shudder, the stumble, the swerve as the star-stabbing bowsprit emerges? Rudyard Kipling

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From humble beginnings to great achievements. Inscription on Sir Francis Drake’s Coat of Arms

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For countless centuries, people have ventured forth into areas they have known little about. The desire to explore has been prompted by many different reasons from necessity and curiosity to the desire to find riches. We will take you on a voyage through the past centuries in a documentary film featuring present day explorers searching for the wrecks, sunken treasure and historic artifacts of the adventurers, the dangers they face, where they go and their motivation for exploration. We will take you on a voyage. A voyage of exploration... discovering...vast riches of gold, silver and Sir Francis Drake! The Golden Age of Piracy came about in the late 1600's, almost 200 years after Columbus had first sighted the Bahamas, and lasted until about 1722. Although a brief period (just over thirty years), it was filled with marauders, pirates, and scoundrels of every kind, all attempting to acquire immense wealth and vast riches. The Pirates ranged their travels from Madagascar to the eastern coast of North America, trading their stolen goods to whomever would deal. Most operated mainly from the Caribbean waylaying unguarded merchant ships for the precious cargos from the rich new land. When England made peace with Spain in 1689, many privateering veterans had already turned to the lucrative calling of piracy. The years leading up to this Golden Age of Piracy was occupied by what we call, Privateers, men armed with a letter of marque who looted and pillaged in the name of their country; therefore their actions were condoned. Perfect examples of these mercenaries were men like Sir Frances Drake and Captain Henry Morgan, both of whom were so successful they received knighthood from the crown. Later Morgan actually became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica. Privateers had an appointed captain; where as, pirates elected theirs with a majority vote, and he could be ousted just as easily by another vote. Although there was a line between privateers and pirates, it was more often a thin one and sometimes nearly indistinguishable. Admiral Horatio Nelson was quoted as saying "...the conduct of all privateers is, as far as I have seen, so near piracy that I only wonder how any civilized nation can allow it."

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History of Marine Sites Drakes Silver Historical information indicates that Sir Francis Drake anchored at Isla de la Plata (Silver Island) when he circumnavigated the globe in 1579. He had acquired so much treasure from the Spanish that his ship was unsafe to sail, due to the excessive weight. To insure his safe voyage back to England, he dumped 45 tons of silver overboard, at the island. This was done after he shared some of the silver with his men, by the bowls full. Nora Stirling details Drakes story in the book, Treasure Under the Sea.

Map of Area, circa 1700

She also tells of a recovery operation from the early part of the 20th century, in which roughly one third of the silver was recovered. A 17th Century map ( above) calls, Isla de la Plata, Drakes Island and also says he shared his money by the bowls full. Drakes silver is documented in several 20th century books, which identify the recovery attempts of two English seamen Captain John Cook in 1594 and Captain Bartholomew Sharp in the following century. Each raised several hundred coins using weighted tallow on lines. There are three recent accounts of people seeing black stones, black loaves of bread and a silver

Sir Francis Drake - p. 7 candlestick while diving there. Since the search area is small, we will be able to verify the credibility of this story with a short, but effective search. Situado In 1721, a merchant ship named, the Situado, left Guayaquil with a shipment of 8 dozen - 20 pound gold bars and other treasure. During its journey to Panama, a severe storm developed near the point of Santa Elena and broke the ships mast. The anchor was dropped to maintain stability and a short time later, heavy seas broke a rib and pushed in the side of the ship where she sunk rapidly, in deep water. A salvage crew returned two weeks later, but could not locate the ship. Consequently, no salvage was ever made. Documents from the archives of Panama, Ecuador, Spain and the Vatican confirm the presence of this site.

Gold Coin Site A shipwreck of unknown origin lies off the coast of Ecuador. The number of gold coins that have been found on the beach in recent years confirms this.

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In January of 1702, a huge minting of special silver rupees took place in Surat, India. They were destined for the Orient to purchase exotic silks and furnishings for the Taj Mahal palace. They were loaded on a 24-gun muslim trader and set sail via the Spice Route. As the ship rounded the southeastern tip of Ceylon, a typhoon engulfed her and slammed her against Great Basses Reef.

The ship, the treasure and all hands were lost for the next 250 years. Until... Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the world renowned author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, who, in 1961, was living in Sri Lanka and was skin-diving for a movie location, Dr. Clarke and his team of divers discovered cannons and silver coins on the bottom. With the assistance of Dr. Mendel Peterson of the Smithsonian Institute the wreck was soon identified. During the next two years, extensive and dangerous salvage efforts yield numerous priceless artifacts and more than 8,000 coins. At this time, Arthur C. Clarke hired a crew to film a documentary relating to the treasure and its salvage. In August 1773, Captain Cook had nearly lost one of his ships in Tahiti and had been forced to cut a main anchor adrift. This was well-known in the islands, and there had been many attempts to find it. David Lean, the

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director of Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Bridge Over the River Kwai, financed, researched, filmed and narrated a documentary film on the discovery and salvage of Captain James Cooks anchor off the coast of Tahiti. You know, I get just as excited about this film as I do on any of my big ones. Every morning I wake up at five o’clock thinking of a cut. It’s marvelous making movies, wonderful. It’s magic, really, isn’t it? - David Lean The resulting documentary was titled, Lost and Found: The Story of an Anchor.

Drake and his men, c. 1581

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