A Spanish Armada Expedition

April 1968; Divers bring Bert Snowden, a diviner from the Isle of Man, out to sea from the pier in Dunquin to help search for the wreckage of the 'Santa Maria de la Rose', a treasure ship from the Spanish Armada that sank in a storm in September, 1588. Mr Sydney Wignall, a Welsh businessman, had been searching the sea bed near the Blasket Islands for the 945 ton vessel. There was fierce competition between Mr Wignall's team and St Helen's Underwater Group, a Lancashire diving club, to find the treasure ship. Mr Snowden pinpointed two areas that he said had traces of gold, silver and bronze. The copper divining fork rod helped him detect treasure in the Blasket Sound.