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the temperature of the water was the same, I did not find anything that resembled Hawaii's
precious coral. Just wrecks and miscellaneous junk from ships torpedoed during World War
II. Also, I managed to get the little yellow submarine tangled in loose wires on the ocean
bottom, but managed to get loose, other wise this account would not have been written.
With a yellow submarine in the Atlantic
"Romancing the stone" - the New Game - In the following years, I relocated again in
Hawaii with a new job. However I spent my yearly vacations at different remote areas of the
word, seeking new discoveries and trying to recover from my Mexico losses. So, while in the
streets of Santiago, Chile, in late 1973 - shortly after the Allende overthrow - and while
dodging bullets after accidentally being in the streets after the sunset curfew, I decided that
Colombia was a much safer place to spend one's vacation. Besides why would FARC be
interested in kidnapping me since there was no one to pay a ransom. So I flew to Bogota,
primarily to check on another story that I had read about in a book called "Green Fire" by
Peter Rainier, a Frenchman who became manager of the old Spanish Chivor emerald mine
in the Boyaca district in the Andes, after its rediscovery around the turn of the 20th Century.
According to historical accounts the Chivor mine had produced some of the finest emeralds,
which helped, finance some of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire. A lot of these
great emeralds had ended up in Tehran, at the Bank of Melli museum - which I managed to
visit in 1979, just before the ousting of the Shah.
The book had an interesting account of how the Chivor mine had been discovered
following an investigation of the Archives of Seville. At that time, I was also examining the
Archives of Seville with the help of someone I had hired and I had found a wealth of
information about tsunamis and earthquakes going back to 1541 - which substantiated some
of the accounts of a French historian, Montessus De Balore. In the Seville Archives there
was also a description of the Chivor emerald mine location in the mountains - where
between two peaks, one could see the llanas (flats) of the Orinoko, the great river that
separates Colombia from Venezuela. The description had certain intriguing similarities with
what I had discovered in Hawaii about the fragment of the precious deep-sea coral, by
examining the proceedings of the Albatross Expedition.