Carl Fismer

Carl Fismer was a close friend and mentor to all of us here at Treasure Expeditions. Carl Fismer was a world famous Treasure Diver, Cancer Survivor, World Traveler, Television Star and Dynamic Motivational Keynote Speaker.

With over 30 years of treasure search and salvage experience, Captain Carl Fismer was one of the most respected and knowledgeable diving professionals in the world.  Carl worked with some of the leaders in treasure hunting. He was a successful treasure hunter who found both sunken treasure and buried treasure. Carl worked over 30 years with respected Treasure Historian Jack Haskins and worked with Mel Fisher on the Atocha.  Carl's area of expertise was shipwrecks... especially Spanish shipwrecks. During his career, he has worked over 300 shipwrecks in the United States, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Indian Ocean and Central and South America. He recovered millions of dollars in Spanish gold, silver, jewels and other artifacts. 

"Fizz”, as he was known to friends, directed part of the salvage diving of the Santa Margarita, sister ship to the Nuestra Senora de Atocha which was discovered by Mel Fisher. Then in 1986, he led an expedition to the Silver Shoals in the Dominican Republic, and there located the famed galleon, Concepcion which sank during a hurricane in 1641. In 1992, he traveled to Sri Lanka and dived with Sir Arthur C. Clarke of 2001: A Space Odyssey fame, in association with the Great Basses Reef Treasures. In May, 2010, Captain Fismer was awarded the Mel Fisher Lifetime Achievement Award for perseverance in following his quest for life, his motivation of mankind in the search for knowledge, discovery and the ambitions of the human spirit and the ability to achieve in life what others might only dare to dream.