When you're talking $500M in gold treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon, finders ain't keepers:
TAMPA, Fla. — Leaving nothing to chance, the U.S. military is making sure the transfer of 17 tons of shipwreck treasure to Spain later this week is handled safely.
Officials at Tampa’s MacDill Air Force Base said Tuesday night that they are cooperating with the Spanish government on the transfer of the of 594,000 coins and other artifacts that were wrested away from deep-sea explorers Odyssey Marine Exploration after a nearly five-year legal struggle.
Click the link to read the rest. Odyssey's mistake was in trying to keep the entire treasure, thinking that the old saw finders keepers was an actual law. Turns out it isn't, not when $500M in gold is involved. Odyssey has apparently learned its lesson from the experience, and has been negotiating sharing agreements with governments over shipwrecks since that time.
594,000 gold doubloons and silver pieces of eight. For the love of God, I'd like to have just one...
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The problem is, it's dangerous to dive alone and only one person can keep a secret..
@DirtCrashr: these are open-ocean shipwrecks, too deep for divers. They use remote-controlled submersibles.
Must be nice, not taking any risk but getting a huge cut (or all) of the profits.
F'n feds.
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