During the Deltona corporations’ construction of the present day Marriott’s Marco Island Beach Resort, two treasure hunters arrived on Marco Beach. The two men were marine archeologists and well armed with nautical charts, old English and Spanish archives, and an undeniable belief that a lost treasure ship lay wrecked beneath the sand of the present day Marco Beach.
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When Gil Nordel first came to work on Marco Island one of his normal daily duties was to drive his personal car down the sandy road to the airport runway. When airplanes were coming in after dark, Gil was always stationed at the end of the airfield with the headlights positioned so that incoming pilots could see to land. After the plane had taxied to a stop, Gil would unload the passenger’s luggage and drive the guests back over the sandy track to the Marco Beach Hotel.
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