One can almost picture Mel Fisher on his father’s Torrance chicken farm dreaming of a more exciting life. Born on Aug. 12, 1922, the Army Corps of Engineers vet had moved to California after World War ...

Authorities raided the museum shop of legendary treasure hunter Mel Fisher on Wednesday, questioning whether some gold coins he said were salvaged from sunken galleons are genuine. Investigators ...

Every September, Key West puts on a festival honoring treasure hunter Mel Fisher. That’s the man who said, “Today’s the day!” until his crew found $400 million of gold, silver and jewels beneath the ...

Rivers of rum and Coke are flowing. Swaggering old salts are swapping tales by the treasure-trunk load. Twenty years after Mel Fisher discovered the lode of a 17th-century Spanish galleon and its vast ...

KEY WEST -- Mel Fisher, the treasure hunter who found his fortune in the underwater treasures left behind by unlucky Spanish sea captains of the 1700s, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer.