Mel Fisher on the right with Cliff Robertson who played him in a movie.

TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / December 19, 19981998 Mel Fisher, the worlds greatest treasure hunter, died at age 76. He searched for 15 years, overcoming government regulation, law suits, weather and the loss of his son to find the mother lode of the Spanish treasure ship Atocha in 1985.

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