Allie's Adventures Book Series now features our favorite Captain, Captain Carl "FIZZ"
Fismer. For more information on this fantastic book series, just click the link below. www.alliesadventures.com
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Captain Carl Fizz Fismer will be at the Rotary's Gigantic Nautical Flea Market. He will be signing books and have treasure coins for sale. For the first time, Carl will be bringing freshly found 900 year-old shipwreck porcelain artifacts. Come join us in Islamorada at Founder's Park. Feb. 23rd & 24th.
The Mastery of Porcelain Documentation and Authentication Following recovery of the Sung Dynasty bounty, Marc and Krist spent the next two years studying, measuring and photographing each of the 1,100 porcelain artifacts. Documentation included identification numbers for each item. Following this intensive process, the brothers enlisted curators to authenticate each piece of porcelain. Authentication was performed by: o Douglas Brewer, curator of the Spurlock Museum at the University of lllinois in Urbana, Champagne, and o Curator Michael Knight from the Seattle Asian Art Museum (now with the San Francisco Art Museum). o Ms. Katz, the private curator for Jillian Sackler of the Sackler Exhibit at the Smithsonian lnstitute. ln May of 1993, Marc and Krist Geriene donated 2 bowls to the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Beijing University and 2 bowls to the Bureau of Cultural Relics in Beijing. Marc also met with authorities in the PRC regarding any possible legal claim to the recovery. There were none so the brothers proceeded with the recovery until completing it in 1996. Currently, there are 888 artifacts, including the 96 pieces set aside for the primary'museum collection available for review and purchase at our secured facility- in Kirkland, Washington. Artifacts available for purchase. Sung Dynasty Shipwreck and Recovery Historical Background
During the height of the period known as the Southern Sung Dynasty, a trading mission set sail from a port in South China on an ocean voyage to South Asia, perhaps planning to venture across the lndian Ocean or farther, up the east coast of lndia to the Middle East. Their vessel, a 300-ton cargo "junk" 'would have most likely departed in February, sailing with the last of the dry southwesterly monsoon winds. The route was a modest voyage to the Moluccas, the fabled Spice lslands in the Malay Archipelago (lndonesia today). Accordingly, they would have sailed around the southern tip of Palawan lsland (in the Philippines), along the Borneo coast and across the Sulu Sea. After passing between the Sulu lslands and Borneo, they would sail southeast across the Celebes Sea, around the northwestern tip of Sulawesi and across the Molucca Sea to Ambon, the heart of the Spice Islands. Approximately nine hundred years ago (c. 1 115), a monsoon storm crashed the ocean-going junk, its men and cargo of porcelain onto an open-sea reef in the South China Sea too far for a human being to swim to the safety of dry land. The reef was shallow and much of the shipwreck came to rest in less than 30 feet of water. Over the last nine centuries, the reefs living framework entombed the wreckage while the wooden ship decayed and disappeared, leaving only the porcelain packaged in large cargo jars which were in turn packaged in a coral concretion. lncredibly, these giant cargo jars while broken, still were able to adequately protect their contents so securely that most of the porcelain was discovered intact. Some of the pieces were partially broken, while the hostile environment of the sea etched other items; a few rare artifacts became home to centuries of gradual coral growth while others were as bright as the day they left the kiln. While fishing in a remote area of the South China Sea, fishermen from a village in Palawan found the first remnants of the ship in 1992. Marc and Krist Geriene were on a sport diving trip and happened to meet the fishermen who invited them to their village to view the recovered artifacts. The discovery and subsequent meeting prompted a 3-year search and recovery mission (1993-1996) that encompassed 12 mini-expeditions and hundreds of square miles of surveys. Many of the trips to the sites, including sleeping, eating and working, were made in small narrow boats called bangkas. All of the artifacts have been recorded and documented as part of a larger collection. To date, the artifacts recovered from this ship are the only ones from the Jin Dynasty (within the Sung Dynasty Period) that have not been recovered from a land site or tomb. Artifacts - Chinese Porcelain available for Purchase. New York Times Best Selling Author Randy Wayne White just published his newest Doc Ford novel and one of the key characters in the book is Captain Fitzpatrick. Captain Fitzpatrick is based on renown treasure hunter Captain Carl Fismer. Carl is honored to be in such a fantastic book. Here is what the books forward says about Capt. Carl Fismer.
This book has much to do with finding shipwrecks, and there is no better resource than my friend Capt. Carl Fismer, a legend in a business that has many pretenders but few true pros. During his 40 year career, Capt. Fizz, as he is known, worked over 300 shipwrecks in Florida, the Bahamas, the Indian Ocean and Central and South America, and recovered millions in Spanish gold, silver, jewels and other artifacts. For years, he partnered with treasure historian Jack Haskins, and he was Mel Fisher’s choice to directed part of the salvage diving of the Santa Margarita, sister ship to the Atocha, so no surprise that he was awarded the Mel Fisher Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. Fizz provided valuable guidance as I researched this book, and also an authentic voice (I hope) to my fictional character, Capt. Carl Fitzpatrick. While the two men share many admirable qualities, I want to make it clear that Fizz cannot be faulted for Fitzpatrick’s negative qualities (if any) nor the fictional character’s choice of language or misstatements of fact. To learn more about Capt. Fismer, I highly recommend his book, Unchartered Waters: The Life and Times of Capt. Fizz. - Randy Wayne White |
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