Project Doubloon - Treasure Hunting Intelligence

🗺️ Maps & Visualization

Interactive Leaflet map showing 153+ shipwrecks across the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Americas. Filter by era, cargo type, and accessibility. Includes treasure fleets, pirate prizes, and military wrecks.

📍 153 wrecks 🏴‍☠️ 24 pirate havens ⚓ Fleet routes

Waggoner Chart Locations

Interactive map showing where each historic chart from Sharp's South Sea Waggoner covers. See the buccaneer's route along the Pacific coast.

📍 11 locations 🚢 Sharp's 1680 route

Florida Treasure Coast

Focused map of Florida's treasure coast - 1715 Fleet, 1622 Fleet, and modern dive sites along the east coast.

📍 1715 & 1622 Fleets 🤿 Active salvage

📜 Historic Charts & Maps

South Sea Waggoner Gallery 208 maps

Searchable gallery of William Hack's South Sea Waggoner charts - the captured Spanish derroteros that guided buccaneers along the Pacific coast. Zoom, pan, and filter by region.

🖼️ 208 images 🔍 Searchable 📅 1680s manuscripts

Waggoner + Sailing Directions

Charts paired with transcribed sailing directions. Filter by source library and country.

📖 Text + Images 🏛️ Multi-source

JCB Waggoner Codex Z 6

High-resolution scans from John Carter Brown Library's original Hack manuscript.

🖼️ 8 charts 🏛️ JCB Library

Colonial Maps Collection New

42 colonial-era maps from Library of Congress - Callao harbor, Peru gold regions, treasure routes, and more.

🖼️ 42 maps 📦 165MB 🏛️ LoC

🤿 Dive Sites & Fishing

Florida & East Coast New

50+ dive sites, spearfishing spots, and underwater photo locations. Cross-referenced with shipwreck database.

📍 50+ sites 🎣 Spearfishing 📸 Photo spots

Caribbean Dive Sites New

18 major dive sites including Silver Bank, Dry Tortugas, and Santiago wrecks. Fleet routes and hurricane drift zones.

📍 18 sites 💰 Treasure sites 🏴‍☠️ Pirate havens

Peru Dive Sites New

Pacific coast dive sites with focus on Callao area, 1746 tsunami wrecks, and San Lorenzo Island.

📍 5 sites ⚓ 1746 wrecks 🔴 Priority targets

Social Media Intel

Dive site leads from Reddit, Instagram, YouTube. "Structure spots" and net snag zones that may indicate wrecks.

📱 Social monitoring 🎣 Snag zones

🎯 Active Research

Michael Angell (1578) Active Target

Spanish galleon wrecked near Callao, Peru. Cargo estimated at 2× declared manifest due to quinto real tax evasion. Adam's team has already attempted a dive - now hunting for exact coordinates in Hack manuscripts.

📅 1578 💰 Silver cargo 📍 Near Callao 🔍 NMM P/33 research

Missing Treasure Report

Analysis of unrecovered treasure from the database. Estimated values and recovery potential.

💰 $Billions unrecovered 📊 Analytics

Project Roadmap

5-phase development plan for the treasure hunting intelligence platform.

📋 5 phases 🎯 Goals

📊 Data & Resources

Shipwreck Database (JSON)

Raw JSON database with all wrecks, pirate havens, incidents, raids, and offshore platforms.

📦 v4.18 ⚓ 153 wrecks 🛢️ 80 platforms

JCB Library Images

41 high-resolution images from John Carter Brown Library including Drake's raids and Pacific coast maps.

🖼️ 41 images 📦 42MB

LoC Hack Atlas

210 files from Library of Congress - East Indies edition of Hack's atlas (bonus find during Waggoner search).

🖼️ 210 files 📦 18MB 🌏 East Indies

Spanish Derroteros Research

Research on the original Spanish pilot books captured by Bartholomew Sharp from the Rosario in 1681.

📜 1681 capture 🔍 In progress