A group of Florida-based treasure hunters recently recovered hundreds of coins from a fleet of 300-year-old shipwrecks off the Atlantic coast this week. 

One of the divers called the find late last month "almost numbing." 

"You don’t expect that," boat captain Grant Gitschlag told FOX 35 on Friday. "You always hope for it, but you never expect it." 

Fellow treasure hunter Corinne Lea agreed that it wasn’t expected "at all," but that’s "how the greatest finds come about."

TREASURE TROVE DATING BACK CENTURIES PULLED FROM SHIPWRECK 5,000 UNDERWATER

Finding the 214 coins and other artifacts they salvaged from the Spanish shipwrecks known as the 1715 Treasure Fleet, is rare, they explained, because they have been salvaged for decades. 

"To get this kind of quantity in a period of a couple of days, is a very exciting start," Gitschlag told the station. 

ANCIENT TREASURE AMONG 1,650-YEAR-OLD OBJECTS UNEARTHED IN ISRAEL

The group contracts with Sal Guttuso, who owns 1715 Fleet Queen’s Jewels LLC, the exclusive salvor of the shipwrecks and the U.S. District Court’s custodian. 

The hunters are now working on cleaning 300 years of sea dust off of the coins to make them shine once again and then are ready to head back out to see what else is waiting for them.

The fleet set sail for Spain from Cuba in July 1715 loaded with cargo and treasure from the New World, but much of the fleet sank during a hurricane a week later, according to the 1715 Fleet Queen’s Jewels LLC. 

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It’s the find. It’s all about the find," Lea said. "I love the history, being the first person up in 309 years to find what was once lost in a tragedy."

Prominent social media users blasted the Associated Press for a report that failed to mention that the two men suspected of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl were illegal immigrants.

The AP’s report that two Hispanic men were arrested on Thursday for the murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston said nothing about the fact the suspects were illegal immigrants from Venezuela who crossed over the U.S. southern border in March. 

"This is not journalism. And hundreds of smaller outlets will run this word-for-word," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, posted to X after seeing the story.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SUSPECTS IN TEXAS GIRL’S MURDER WERE RECENTLY CAUGHT BY BORDER PATROL, RELEASED INTO US 

Police arrested the two illegal immigrants Thursday after surveillance footage revealed they were with Nungaray before her body was found in a Houston creek that Monday.

The two men "lured" her under a bridge in Houston before tying her up and killing her, prosecutors allege in new court documents obtained by Fox News. 

In AP’s version of the story, headlined "2 men arrested in strangulation of 12-year-old Houston girl whose body was found in a creek," the outlet didn’t describe the two murder suspects beyond giving their names and ages. 

It stated, "Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, each face a charge of capital murder in the killing of Jocelyn Nungaray, police said. The medical examiner has determined that her cause of death was strangulation."

It further mentioned that the two men were "roommates."

However, the same day of their arrest, Fox News reported that the two suspects from Venezuela had entered the U.S. illegally before being released from custody, news that Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the next day. 

The AP story has not been updated to reflect that Martinez and Ramos were in the country illegally.

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The omission sparked a furor among conservatives and other media critics.

Sen. Cruz also commented, "@ap is fundamentally dishonest. ‘2 men’ Entire story doesn’t mention that the murderers were ILLEGAL ALIENS."

Conservative attorney Harmeet Dhillon corrected the story, commenting, "Two illegal aliens from Venezuela, you mean."

The Spectator contributing editor Stephen L. Miller posted a sarcastic question, writing, "Any other details we should be aware of or informed about here, AP?"

Fox News contributor Joe Concha stated, "Were these ‘2 men’ in this country legally, AP? Might want to include that part about this horrific story."

Former Trump senior advisor Stephen Miller blasted both the Biden administration and the AP in how the outlet covered it, posting, "Biden freed two illegal aliens into America now charged with the most heinous and evil crime against a child. This is how the AP covers it. Shameless."

And GOP political strategist Chris LaCivita wrote, "rewrite: 2 illegal aliens arrested in strangulation of 12 -year-old Houston girl whose body was found in a creek."

The Associated Press did not immediately reply to Fox News Digital's request for comment. 

Fox News Digital's Greg Norman, Bill Melugin, and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.