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Friday, September 21, 2018

Tucker's Cross Unsolved Mystery: Whereabouts Since Feb. 16, 1975

Summary: The Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery of post-theft whereabouts since Feb. 16, 1975, keeps hidden the New World's most valuable single shipwrecked icon.

front and back of Tucker's Cross: The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette, via Facebook Nov. 19, 2015

The Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery of whoever absconded with the world-famous Christian icon barely antedated the arrival of a queen and her prince Feb. 16, 1975, in the Caribbean archipelago of Bermuda.

The namesake cross belonged among San Pedro booty that marine archaeologist Edward Bolton Tucker (May 8, 1925-June 9, 2014) brought up from Bermuda's sand-bottomed coral reefs. The 16th-century emerald and gold cross still claims status as the most valuable single item ever carried up from a shipwreck site in the New World. Protocol delegated to Tucker the duty of displaying his world-famous discovery to Queen Elizabeth I and her consort, Prince Philip, during their three-day visit to Bermuda.

It embarrassed the entire archipelago when Tucker encountered a plastic replica instead of Tucker's Cross in the exhibition case in the Bermuda Maritime Museum in Hamilton.

Online news sources and sunken treasure-featured sites find the Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery of post-theft whereabouts a felony that furnished no on-site evidence, eyewitnesses or footage.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States, the island police throughout the archipelago and Interpol and Scotland Yard in Europe never generated rogues' galleries. Online articles hint of insider involvement for private collectors even though no investigative reporter, law enforcement spokesperson or private detective ever has handed out suspect names. Nobody includes any indication of previous initiatives during the emerald-studded, 22-karat gold cross's intervals in the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo and the Bermuda Maritime Museum.

Perhaps the Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery of post-theft whereabouts joins participants in an attempted burglary sometime after fall 1955 with those in the 1975 museum break-in.

Tucker kept the $250,000-valued cross at Kings Point, Sandys Parish, until a residential break-in; and in a bank, until government-threatened confiscation of discoveries in territorial waters.

Tucker listed as a third location a potato sack left in an underwater cave and a fourth location in his and wife Edna Canton Tucker's museum. He always mentioned that he wanted the cross to remain on the island so he and Edna made the museum the government's for $100,000 in 1959. He noted in the PBS program from 2004 and the PBS video from 2006 that he never stopped trying to get his namesake cross back home.

Online information sources and informational sites observe as Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery suspects international art and jewel thieves whose operating procedures offer replicas at crime scenes.

Online writers present local thieves as never putting anything as a replacement or replica at a crime scene even though the museum preserves a replicated cross.

And yet visitors queue up around the display case for the replicated Tucker's Cross in the Treasure Room of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute's Ocean Discovery Centre at Crow Lane. Tucker's Cross realized one record in its reputation as the most valuable single retrieval from a New World shipwreck site and another in its 43-year removal. Tucker said that sand so steadily sank the 16th-century cannons that showed him the San Pedro shipwreck site that nothing would be seen there by 1980.

Cannons, coins, gold ingots and pearl-studded gold buttons tell the tales of 16th-century treasure that the Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery of post-theft whereabouts thwarts since 1975.

Bermuda Maritime Museum (now formally known as Bermuda National Museum since December 2013) complex includes the Commissioner's House and ramparts at Keep Fort, old Royal Naval Dockyard, Ireland Island, northernmost Bermuda: The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette, via Facebook Feb. 16, 2015

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

front and back of Tucker's Cross: The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette, via Facebook Nov. 19, 2015, @ https://www.facebook.com/theroyalgazette/photos/a.441868117854.220634.249363077854/10153754290802855/

Bermuda Maritime Museum (now formally known as Bermuda National Museum since December 2013) includes the Commissioner's House and ramparts at Keep Fort, old Royal Naval Dockyard, Ireland Island, northernmost Bermuda: The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette, via Facebook Feb. 16, 2015, @ https://www.facebook.com/theroyalgazette/photos/a.441868117854.220634.249363077854/10153105322907855/

For further information:

Barnes, Bart. 28 August 2003. "Smithsonian's Mendel Peterson Dies." The Washington Post > Archive > Local.
Available @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/08/28/smithsonians-mendel-peterson-dies/b7f6e024-7e0f-4580-afc4-35a5970cfe05/?utm_term=.a10b0fe73f64

Benchley, Peter. 12 March 1989. "A Diver's Map of Bermuda: Here There Be Treasures." The New York Times Magazine > Archives > 1989.
Available @ https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/12/magazine/a-diver-s-map-of-bermuda-here-there-be-treasures.html

Bentley, B.R. 2015. The Bermuda Key. Victoria BC Canada: Friesen Press.

Bentley, B.R. 2018. The Cross. Victoria BC Canada: Friesen Press.

Doubilet, David. 17 June 2014. "Remembering Teddy Tucker, the Voice of the Sargasso Sea." National Geographic > Picture Stories.
Available @ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2014/06/17/remembering-teddy-tucker-the-voice-of-the-sargasso-sea/

Hardy, Jessie Moniz. 11 January 2016. "Unravelling the Mystery of the Tucker Cross." The Royal Gazette.
Available @ http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20160111/island04/160119984

Kingtide, Arthur. 7 March 2018. "Tucker's Missing Cross." Lost Treasures of the Tropical Variety > Caribbean.
Available @ https://www.tropicalvariety.com/tuckers-cross.html

Lam, Brian. 17 August 2011. "Tucker's Cross: Gold and Swollen with Emeralds, This Was the World's Most Valuable Sunken Treasure." The Scuttlefish.
Available @ http://thescuttlefish.com/2011/08/tuckers-cross-gold-and-swollen-with-emeralds-this-was-the-worlds-most-valuable-sunken-treasure/

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 July 2018. "Nuestra Señora de Atocha Floundered Sept. 6, 1622, Found July 20, 1985." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2018/07/nuestra-senora-de-atocha-floundered.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 7 September 2018. "Tucker's Cross Unsolved Mystery: San Pedro Shipwrecked in 1594." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2018/09/tuckers-cross-unsolved-mystery-san.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 14 September 2018. "Tucker's Cross Unsolved Mystery: Empty, Hidden Compartment." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2018/09/tuckers-cross-unsolved-mystery-empty.html

NYC Coin Dealer ‏@coindealernyc. 14 July 2016. "1975 BERMUDA UK Queen ELIZABETH II Visit 25 Dollars PROOF Silver 'Medal ' i56972." Twitter.
Available @ https://twitter.com/coindealernyc/status/753713210826428416

The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette. 19 November 2015. "Good Morning #Bermuda. Today is Thursday, November 19, 2015. In this month in 1596, the 350-ton Spanish merchant ship San Pedro was wrecked on Bermuda’s inner reef as she made her way from Cartagena, Columbia, to Cadiz, Spain. . . .She was discovered in 1950 by veteran shipwreck diver, Teddy Tucker and Robert Canton. Among the treasures they recovered was a gold pectoral cross with seven emeralds, said to be one of the most valuable pieces of jewellery retrieved from any Spanish shipwreck. Known as 'Tucker’s Cross', it was stolen and replaced with a replica ahead of Queen Elizabeth II's visit to the Island in 1975." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/theroyalgazette/photos/a.441868117854.220634.249363077854/10153754290802855/

The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette. 16 February 2015. "The Royal Gazette is with Suzanne Jeffrey. Good morning, #Bermuda: today is #Monday, February 16, and it marks 40 years since the opening of the Maritime Museum -- known today as the National Museum of Bermuda. . . ." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/theroyalgazette/photos/a.441868117854.220634.249363077854/10153105322907855/

Sánchez Morata, Román. 21 January 2018. "Sebastião Rodrigues Soromenho o Sebastian Rodríguez Cermeño." Navegar Es Preciso > Portada y Índice > Sumario > Sucesos, Barcos y Personajes > 29.
Available @ https://www.navegar-es-preciso.com/news/sebastiao-rodrigues-soromenho-o-sebastian-rodriquez-cermeno/

Stevenson, Cooper; and Sam Strangeways. 10 June 2014. "Underwater Pioneer Teddy Tucker Dies, Aged 89." The Royal Gazette > Obituaries.
Available @ http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140610/news/140619968

"Teddy Tucker." BDA Sun > Obituaries > Photo Gallery.
Available @ http://bermudasun.bm/Content/OBITUARIES/Obituaries/Photo-Gallery/Teddy-Tucker/150/917/737

"Teddy Tucker." Bernews > Bermuda Profiles.
Available @ http://bernews.com/bermuda-profiles/teddy-tucker/

"Teddy Tucker: Adventure Is My Life." PBS Home Video.

Tucker, Teddy. "How I Found the Cross." TeddyTucker.com.
Available @ http://www.teddytucker.com/treasure.html

Friday, September 14, 2018

Tucker's Cross Unsolved Mystery: Empty, Hidden Compartment

Summary: The Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery of an empty, hidden compartment inspires interpretations in fiction, not in fact.

A Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery that allows no answer until its appearance at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute in Hamilton arises from an empty, hidden compartment inside the absconded 16th-century religious icon.

Marine archaeologist Teddy Tucker (May 8, 1925-June 9, 2014) bore his namesake cross up from Bermuda's reef-bottomed waters as maritime history's most valuable single find ever. Tucker's Cross communicated no information concerning the Christian cross's crafting place or craftsmen even though its precious stones likely came from the Muzo mine in Colombia. As the descendant of Bermuda's first governor in 1612-1616, carpenter Richard Moore, and the son of architect Edward Tucker, Tucker described the devotional's detailed, distinct decoration.

His extensive experiences as an expert Caribbean Sea diver and sunken treasure explorer somehow never encouraged Tucker to explain his namesake cross's empty, enigmatic, hidden compartment.

The autobiographical Treasure! A Diver's Life, the Public Broadcasting Service's PBS Home Video Teddy Tucker: Adventure Is My Life and the TeddyTucker.com website feature Tucker's Cross.

The autobiographical article How I Found the Cross, on the Tucker website, gives the material traits and the oceanographic contexts of the emerald and gold cross. It heads into "September 1955, and the weather was getting worse. Then on the seventh day, a Sunday, I found the greatest single object of all." It identifies as the instruments for investigating the cross a full-faced diving mask with rubber hose from the ship deck's air compressor and a water hose.

Tucker jetted hose streams against the coral reef floor 10 miles (8.69 nautical miles) from Hamilton's harbor until particles jumped from below-bottom holes into above-bottom heaps.

Bermuda kept shipwrecked secrets until "After carving a deep hole I turned the jet off. When the debris settled my eyes fell on a gold cross."

Tucker located precious metal "lying face down in the sand. I picked it up and turned it over. Awe struck, I counted the large green emeralds." He mentioned "seven of them, each [emerald] as big as a musket ball. From small rings on the arms of the cross hung tiny gold nails. He noted, for Christ's feet nailed together, unlike Christ's hands nailed separately, "at the foot was the ring for a third [nail], which had been lost."

No Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery obtrudes into Tucker's article which only observes that "The carving while beautiful was somewhat crude, indicating that Indians made the cross."

B.R. Bentley, finance industrialist in Bermuda 2007-2011 and retired resident of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, questions the Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery of an empty, hidden compartment.

Bentley reveals a rationale that related the hidden compartment to Vatican City in two adventure books, The Cross from 2014 and The Bermuda Key from 2015. He summarizes that, beyond the cross's whereabouts, "there is also an empty cavity in the back of the cross. No one knows what it once housed."

The Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery of the hidden compartment turns up no answers, like that of its post-theft whereabouts and unlike that of its shipwrecked transport.

After a break-in, Teddy Tucker removed the Emerald and Gold Cross from his house and sought safekeeping first in a bank, next in a potato sack in a cave, then in a museum that he opened and finally in a sale to the Government of Bermuda in 1959; Teddy Tucker's home in Somerset Village, Sandys Parish, northwest Bermuda; Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 06:13: David Broad, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Marine explorer Teddy Tucker with his discoveries, including front (center, near Tucker's left hand) and back (foreground) of Tucker's Cross: The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette, via Facebook June 16, 2014, @ https://www.facebook.com/theroyalgazette/photos/a.441868117854.220634.249363077854/10152498831037855/

After a break-in, Teddy Tucker removed the Emerald and Gold Cross from his house and sought safekeeping first in a bank, then in a potato sack in a cave, then in a museum that he opened and finally in a sale to the Government of Bermuda in 1959; Teddy Tucker's home in Somerset Village, Sandys Parish, northwest Bermuda; Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 06:13: David Broad, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bermuda,_Somerset_Village,_home_of_wreck_specialist_Teddy_Tucker_-_panoramio.jpg;
David Broad, CC BY 3.0 Unported, Panoramio via Internet Archive Wayback Machine @ https://web.archive.org/web/20161021165107/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/59968214

For further information:

Bentley, B.R. 2015. The Bermuda Key. Victoria BC Canada: Friesen Press.

Bentley, B.R. 2018. The Cross. Victoria BC Canada: Friesen Press.

Hardy, Jessie Moniz. 11 January 2016. "Unravelling the Mystery of the Tucker Cross." The Royal Gazette.
Available @ http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20160111/island04/160119984

Kingtide, Arthur. 7 March 2018. "Tucker's Missing Cross." Lost Treasures of the Tropical Variety > Caribbean.
Available @ https://www.tropicalvariety.com/tuckers-cross.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 July 2018. "Nuestra Señora de Atocha Foundered Sep. 6, 1622, Found July 20, 1985." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2018/07/nuestra-senora-de-atocha-floundered.html

The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette. 25 May 2017. "A diver, treasure hunter, marine archaeologist and ocean explorer, Teddy Tucker's exuberant manner sometimes distracted from his formidable intellect, limitless curiosity and seemingly inexhaustible reserves of energy. . . ." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/theroyalgazette/photos/a.441868117854.220634.249363077854/10155364764817855/

The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette. 16 June 2014. "Bermudian diver and ocean explorer Teddy Tucker displaying some of the highlights of his fabulous collection of Spanish treasure in the 1950s.." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/theroyalgazette/photos/a.441868117854.220634.249363077854/10152498831037855/

The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette. "The Royal Gazette June 20, 2014 · #Bermuda NEWS The exploits of local diving legend Teddy Tucker -- seen here at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute with the hologram of the fabled gold and emerald cross he discovered in the 1950s -- have been hailed by National Geographic magazine; Mr. Tucker died earlier this month the age of 88." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152507417812855

The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette. 10 June 2014. "' ... My eyes fell on a gold cross lying face down in the sand, I picked it up and turned it over. Awe struck, I counted the large green emeralds on its face. There were seven of them, each as big as a musket ball. From small rings on the arms of the cross hung tiny gold nails, representing the nails in Christ’s hands, and at the foot was the ring for a third, which had been lost. The carving while beautiful was somewhat crude, indicating that Indians made the cross. It remains my most treasured discovery.' -- Teddy Tucker on how he discovered the cross in 1955." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/theroyalgazette/photos/a.441868117854.220634.249363077854/10152485062182855/

The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette. 10 June 2014. "'Teddy Tucker showed me his treasure: the greatest underwater bonanza found in western waters in this century. He had made the discovery at a depth of only 25 feet, in the remains of a Spanish wreck off the coral reefs. . . .' -- writer and former US ambassador and Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce on meeting Teddy Tucker in Bermuda in the late 1950s." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/theroyalgazette/photos/a.441868117854.220634.249363077854/10152485062717855/

The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette. 10 June 2014. "Teddy Tucker with Jaws author Peter Benchley -- whose follow-up novel The Deep was inspired by and dedicated to the Bermudian diving legend -- and Jacqueline Bisset who starred in the smash 1977 film adaptation at a Bermuda Underwater Institute gala in 2004. #RoyalGazette photo by Tamell Simons." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/theroyalgazette/photos/a.441868117854.220634.249363077854/10152485063122855/

"Teddy Tucker." BDA Sun > Obituaries > Photo Gallery.
Available @ http://bermudasun.bm/Content/OBITUARIES/Obituaries/Photo-Gallery/Teddy-Tucker/150/917/737

"Teddy Tucker." Bernews > Bermuda Profiles.
Available @ http://bernews.com/bermuda-profiles/teddy-tucker/

"Teddy Tucker: Adventure Is My Life." PBS Home Video.

Tucker, Teddy. "How I Found the Cross." TeddyTucker.com.
Available @ http://www.teddytucker.com/treasure.html

Friday, September 7, 2018

Tucker's Cross Unsolved Mystery: San Pedro Shipwrecked in 1594

Summary: The Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery Sept. 7, 1955, of a reef-, storm-, wave-subdued shipwreck settles around one of three San Pedro ships in 1594.

map of Bermuda shipwrecks compiled and painted by marine explorer Teddy Tucker: Magpie @jillianhalfp, via Twitter March 17, 2015

The Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery arises from a religious icon abstracted by its namesake Sept. 7, 1955, from a 16th-century shipwreck in Bermuda's sometimes angry waters, "bad weather and eerie night sounds."

Edward Bolton Tucker (May 8, 1925-June 9, 2014) brought the unusual cross of precious metal and stones from the coral reefs called the Isles of Devils. Mendel Lazear Peterson (March 8, 1918-July 30, 2003), Tucker's colleague in marine archaeology and exploration from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., calculated the cross's value. He determined the emerald and gold cross's value at its discovery date as $250,000 (£90,183.16) even as marine historians deduced its likeliest disappearance date as 1594.

One Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery ensues from existing evidence 10 miles (8.69 nautical miles) off Hamilton's harbor not elucidating the exact galleon that exiled the cross.

Tucker found the shipwreck site five years before he fetched his namesake Tucker's Cross because he figured out that sunken cannons fit into coral reef floors.

Tucker got the dark, heavy cannons up from the coral reefs that gashed and grounded their 16th-century galleon for the highest bidder, the Government of Bermuda. Five summers later, Tucker headed back to the shipwreck site, whose sandy hiding places held 200 coins, from 1592 backward, from France and the Iberian Peninsula. A five-sided gold piece nine times smaller than another, royal tax stamp-incised ingot; three more gold ingots; and four pearl-studded gold buttons implied institutionalized trading itineraries.

Three ships with the name San Pedro ("Saint Peter") journeyed along the four trading routes between the Caribbean and the Mediterranean sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Cartographers, historians, marine archaeologists and oceanographers know of trading routes from and to Cartagena, Havana, Portobelo and Veracruz from such archived documents as logs and maps.

Archived records in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula list loads from and to Caribbean coastal Colombia and Mexico, Cuba and the Azores, Lisbon and Seville. Arthur Kingtide mentions as one of the two unlikelier of the three San Pedro monickers Captain Sebastian Rodríguez Cermeño's (March 27, 1560-April 1, 1602?) Saint Peter. Rodríguez-Cermeño navigated his San Pedro from Acapulco in conquered western coastal Mexico across the Pacific Ocean to Manila in the conquered western coastal Philippines in 1594. The other unlikely San Pedro obfuscates the Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery because the Saint Peter Captain, Hierónimo de Porras, observed routes along Bermuda only after 1594.

Kingtide presents as the probable San Pedro in the Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery the Saint Peter under Captain Pedro Núñez de Bohórquez of Antioquia, northwestern Colombia.

Núñez de Bohórquez queued up stops from the Iberian Peninsula to Caribbean ports at Cartagena, Havana, Portobelo and Rio de la Hacha and back in 1594. He ran his San Pedro westward to Portobelo, southeastward to Cartagena, northward to Havana and southeastward along Bermuda's coastlines toward the Atlantic Ocean and the Azores. Stops southward toward Rio de la Hacha separated his San Pedro from armed escorts (armada) and sent his Saint Peter into Bermuda's sinister Isles of Devils.

The Tucker's Cross unsolved mystery of the ship that tumbled treasures across coral reefs turns out far less truculent than those about hidden compartments and theft.

Teddy Tucker's memorial is sited in Southampton Parish, southwestern Bermuda: The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette, via Facebook Nov. 18, 2015

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

map of Bermuda shipwrecks compiled and painted by marine explorer Teddy Tucker: Magpie @jillianhalfp, via Twitter March 17, 2015, @ https://twitter.com/jillianhalfp/status/577856538464940032

Teddy Tucker's memorial is sited in Southampton Parish, southwestern Bermuda: The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette, via Facebook Nov. 18, 2015, @ https://www.facebook.com/theroyalgazette/photos/a.441868117854.220634.249363077854/10153753548822855/

For further information:

The Royal Gazette @royalgazette.bm. 10 June 2014. "#Bermuda NEWS Crafted from 24 karat gold and swollen with emeralds, the cross Bermudian diver Teddy Tucker recovered from the wreck of the 16th century Spanish ship San Pedro was valued at $250,000 by the Smithsonian Institution shortly after its discovery in the 1950s." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/royalgazette.bm/posts/10152485071432855

Hardy, Jessie Moniz. Published Jan 11, 2016 at 8:00 am (Updated Jan 10, 2016 at 10:10 pm). "Unravelling the Mystery of the Tucker Cross." The Royal Gazette.
Available @ http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20160111/island04/160119984&

Kingtide, Arthur. 7 March 2018. "Tucker's Missing Cross." Lost Treasures of the Tropical Variety > Caribbean.
Available @ https://www.tropicalvariety.com/tuckers-cross.html

Magpie ‏@jillianhalfp. 17 March 2015. "Map by Teddy Tucker showing the wrecks he has explored in the Islands of Bermuda." Twitter.
Available @ https://twitter.com/jillianhalfp/status/577856538464940032

The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette. 18 November 2015. "#Bermuda ISLAND A Bermuda Short: An anchor forms part of a memorial for world-renowned shipwreck diver Teddy Tucker, who died last year at the age of 89. The tribute is at the Princess Beach Club at Sinky Bay, Southampton. Tucker found more than 100 shipwrecks around Bermuda, including the San Pedro, which contained the famous gold and emerald 'Tucker Cross'." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/theroyalgazette/photos/a.441868117854.220634.249363077854/10153753548822855/

Stevenson, Cooper; and Strangeways, Sam. 10 June 2014. "Underwater Pioneer Teddy Tucker Dies, Aged 89." The Royal Gazette > Obituaries.
Available @ http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140610/news/140619968

"Teddy Tucker." BDA Sun > Obituaries > Photo Gallery.
Available @ http://bermudasun.bm/Content/OBITUARIES/Obituaries/Photo-Gallery/Teddy-Tucker/150/917/737

"Teddy Tucker." Bernews > Bermuda Profiles.
Available @ http://bernews.com/bermuda-profiles/teddy-tucker/

"Teddy Tucker: Adventure Is My Life." PBS Home Video.

Tucker, Teddy. "How I Found the Cross." TeddyTucker.com.
Available @ http://www.teddytucker.com/treasure.html