{"id":13470,"date":"2010-12-12T19:43:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T19:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=13470"},"modified":"2026-02-08T10:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:35:27","slug":"fisher-mel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/fisher-mel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisher, Mel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mel<\/strong><strong> Fisher (1922-1998) <\/strong>was colourful treasure hunter who claimed that he had discovered Atlantis in the Caribbean, but never revealed its location. He ran <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Mel-Fisher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28839\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Mel-Fisher-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Mel-Fisher\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Mel-Fisher-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Mel-Fisher.jpg 898w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>a tourist shop in Key West where he also sold ancient gold coins. Unfortunately, shortly before his death, he was accused of minting some of the coins himself, which he denied. However, it adds to probability that his Atlantis story was also manufactured. Mel\u2019s grandson, Sean, has also taken up salvaging and with regard to Atlantis, is reported as saying,\u00a0 \u201cIt was always my grandfather\u2019s dream to find Atlantis.\u201d Sean Fisher says. \u201cI\u2019m serious. We have some idea where it is. But it\u2019s a hard salvage operation that will cost a lot of money and resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/collins-andrew\/\">Andrew Collins<\/a> has told us<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">0072<\/a>.333]<\/sup> of a number of telephone conversations that he had with Fisher shortly before his death, in which he claimed to have initially discovered Atlantis using <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/satellite-imagery\/\">satellite imagery<\/a>. He also claimed to have subsequently verified his discovery using sonar scans not far from <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cuba\/\">Cuba<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Fisher (1922-1998) was colourful treasure hunter who claimed that he had discovered Atlantis in the Caribbean, but never revealed its location. He ran a tourist shop in Key West where he also sold ancient gold coins. Unfortunately, shortly before his death, he was accused of minting some of the coins himself, which he denied. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195,2259,21,37,4263,2619,4264],"class_list":["post-13470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-collins","tag-atlantis","tag-caribbean","tag-cuba","tag-mel-fisher","tag-satellite-imagery","tag-sean-fisher"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66363,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13470\/revisions\/66363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}