Treasures, safes full of gold, lure divers to waters of Puget Sound

There was a captain's safe, a purser's safe and a casino safe said to be filled with gold coins.

SEATTLE -- Bits of gold and diamond are part of the sunken treasure floating around in the Puget Sound where ghosts of more than 150 shipwrecks loom.

For the first time, area divers pooled their resources to showcase the shipwrecks of the Sound, and I joined them.

Only truly brave explorers plunge deep into the darkness to unlock the mysteries entombed in these wrecks, lured by the chance to explore what few have seen at the cold, murky bottom of Puget Sound.

"Wrecks are very alluring. They almost call to you and say, 'Come inside and explore me,'" said diver Cindy Ross.

For some, it's the history that's down there. For others, it's what they may discover.

"So there's that lure of, you know, finding treasure on a deep, dark shipwreck," said Dan Warter.

There are wrecks like the SS Governor, a 417-foot luxury liner.

"There are, I believe three safes still on board," said . . .

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