When he gave me the emerald he got from the Atocha, nothing in the world could be more exciting other than being engaged, she said.For years, Mitzi Perdue looked down at her hand and saw history.The emerald stone on her ring finger told a story stretching back nearly four centuries, to the sinking of a Spanish galleon near the Florida Keys in 1622 and a decades-long effort of a colorful undersea treasure hunter named Mel Fisher to retrieve its payload of gold and silver coins, gold nuggets and jewelry.
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