20 Facts About Martin Bayerle

Captain Martin Gerard Bayerle was born on April 23,1951 and is an American treasure hunter and author, best known for finding the 1909 shipwreck of the White Star Liner RMS Republic.

Martin Bayerle was born in St Albans Naval Hospital in Queens, New York, and grew up in the Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Martin Bayerle's father, Gerard, was a lawyer and lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserve.

Martin Bayerle's mother, Ruth, was a German immigrant who came to the United States following World War II.

Martin Bayerle lost sight in his left eye from a small explosives accident when he was 11 years old.

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Martin Bayerle first began scuba diving off the coast of New Jersey and New York at the age of 15 and went on to graduate from Abraham Lincoln High School in February 1969.

Martin Bayerle attended Brooklyn College in New York from 1969 through 1972 where he majored in Geology.

Martin Bayerle taught scuba diving as a student and adjunct professor within the Adult Education Department; during his time there until he opened up a dive shop - Brooklyn Divers Supply Corp.

Martin Bayerle began running dive operations to local shipwreck sites, such as the Mistletoe, Black Warrior, USS Turner, Oregon, and U-853, among others.

Martin Bayerle trained about 1,200 people how to scuba dive and became a Master PADI SCUBA instructor in 1975.

Martin Bayerle then closed up his Brooklyn operations and moved to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Martin Bayerle raised investor capital and purchased the assets from a bankrupt Canadian offshore oil rig support company, Wolf Sub-Ocean Ltd.

Martin Bayerle married during those years and he and his wife, Susan, gave birth to two children – a daughter, Tessa, and a son, Grant.

Martin Bayerle was featured on television programs such as CBS Evening News, ABC Evening News, and ABC Good Morning America.

Martin Bayerle flew to London and appeared on ITV and BBC radio, offering a £25,000 reward for the construction plans of the Republic.

Martin Bayerle moved to Clarksburg, West Virginia, to live with his in-laws, the Youngs, on a small farm.

Martin Bayerle was accepted into the WVU College of Law in the fall of 1990 but would not complete his legal education there as other personal events intervened.

Martin Bayerle argued that he "was protecting his family, " although a legal and justifiable homicide defense of self or defense of family was not offered to the jury as an option.

Martin Bayerle completed his sentence, with good time, in two-and-a-half years.

Martin Bayerle subsequently started an archival research company specializing in retrieving records from government archives.