Greg Bounds is Captain of Goldhound Treasure Divers. Captain Bounds, age 41, has been in the sunken treasure salvage business for over 14 years, having worked some of the most renowned shipwreck discoveries in modern history, including the Atocha and Santa Margarita, both off Key West. Among other major finds in his career, Captain Bounds was responsible for discovering millions in treasures in a single day off the Santa Margarita. Those treasures included fine pearls, rare gold broaches, and over 30 feet of solid gold chains, all preserved for nearly 400 years in their sunken hiding spots. Bounds has spent the majority of his professional salver years as a Captain for the legendary Mel Fisher, considered the most successful sunken treasure hunter ever, before venturing out in search of his own legacy, which Bounds believes will be major discoveries from the 1715 Fleet.

Greg Bounds is a United States Coast Guard certified 100-ton Master Captain, his qualifications allowing him to navigate vessels as large as 120 feet in length. The location and depth of potential treasure wrecks help determine the size of the vessel Bound chooses to operate.

Currently, Captain Bounds serves as a sub-contractor to Mel Fisher Center, Inc. in search of the 1715 Fleet, continuing his long and prosperous relationship with the Fisher family. One of the great privileges in his life, says Bounds, was venturing out with Mel Fisher on the latter’s last treasure hunt before his death in the late ‘90s. “Mel had a dream as to how the 1715 Fleet broke up, and we followed that dream.” These days, that search is much more scientific for Bounds. He is now aided by a highly advanced, proprietary computer model that provides him unprecedented intelligence as to where the mother lode of the 1715 ships might lie, holding an estimated $450 million worth of silver coins.

Prior to working with Mel Fisher, Bounds was trained by another treasure hunter, John Brandon, a legend in his own right and one of Mel Fisher’s top salvers. Bounds often worked the summers on the 1715 wrecks with Brandon when conditions were optimal, and the winters with Mel Fisher off of the Keys. Before that, he pursued shipwrecks in the Bahamas with Brandon, where they successfully located jewelry, coins, artifacts and more from numerous wrecks.

Bounds got the treasure-hunting bug in his days working for security at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. While there, he helped guard facilities that tracked launched satellites. When colleagues of his told tales of opportunities to search for sunken treasures, Greg decided to look under rather than up, and has never looked back.