The pieces fall into place

In May of 2010 I made an entry called "Lucky Breaks" on my blog. In it I referenced Byron Morgan and the trip we made to Florida to discuss a film project we were wanting to start concerning the salvage of sunken treasure from ships that went down a couple of centuries ago. Byron had made a connection with the man that brought the first gold to the surface from the Atocha, one of the largest finds to that date of gold. Mel Fisher had given him 11 treasure maps as part of his payment for the years he had spent searching for the Atocha with Mel. We were going try to put together a Series for television of efforts to extract gold or silver from these wrecks.

This gentleman knew his stuff and had all of the necessary experience to head up the divers and one of the maps had given up "milk creates of silver" from its location. There was only one problem....it seems that he had made the mistake of delivering a boatload of pot to Bebe Rebozo and was convicted of dealing by the government. According to our new head diver, a deal had been struck with the government (Nixons), for the diver to plead guilty in return for a slap on the wrist and a week or two in the slammer...all to protect the fact that the pot was to go to Rebozo.

Quite frankly speaking this didn't make much sense to me at the time. Why would the government want or care about Bebe Rebozo, who I had read was a "small time player in questionable deals". Made no sense. But with the revelations last week concerning Nixon and Bebe, it sure adds some more mystery.