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NL Who's Who #3 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 6/19/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

NL Who's Who is a series of seventeen caches dedicated to famous/important people from Newfoundland and Labrador. Each of the caches will require you to do a little bit of research on a particular person or group of individuals in order to obtain the final coordinates for that particular cache. The caches are all relatively easy finds and are all located on Bell Island.

NL Who's Who #3 is dedicated to Bob Cole. He is a sports television announcer and known for his work on Hockey Night In Canada.

The coordinates listed above are false, go there and you will find nothing but the Atlantic Ocean.

The final coordinates for this cache are as follows:

N 47 AB.CDE W 052 VW.XYZ

Where:

A = Bob Cole was Born in 193_.
B = He won the Forster Hewitt Memorial Award in 199_.
CD = He began broadcasting hockey on television in 19__. Add 6 to this number.
E = He won a Gemini Award in 200_. Subtract 1 from this number.

VW = Bob Cole was also a competitive curler. He made his first trip to the Brier in 19__. Subtract 12 from this number.
XY = He was induceted in the Newfoundland and Labrador Sport Hall of Fame in 19__. Subtract 4 from this number.
Z = Bob Cole became the primary play-by-play announce for Hockey Night in Canada in 198_, a title which he retained until approximately 2008.

The container is a Green Micro and should not be hard to located once in the correct area.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Unatvat Ybj

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)