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Ray Ives Locker<br />
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Ray in the North Sea in the early seventies.<br />
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Old man of the sea Ray Ives has opened his very own Davy Jones' locker of hundreds of nautical treasures he has salvaged from the seabed.<br />
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Ray(77) has spent 40 years amassing a huge trove of historical artefacts that he has found during thousands of deep sea dives off the British coast.<br />
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Ray's watery Aladdins cave includes canon balls, muskets, swords and even the bell from an ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat in the First World War.<br />
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For years Ray had stuffed his collection into a tiny shed in the back garden of his home in Plymouth, Devon.<br />
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But now the fascinating archive has now gone on display to the public in a ramshackle museum made from shipping containers.