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Robot sub finds 'holy grail of shipwrecks' with treasure worth billions
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| 05/23/18
Posted on 05/23/2018 9:53:09 AM PDT by Simon Green
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To: Simon Green
Always cool....
A piece of the action would be cool, too.
To: Simon Green
Aaargh! At the bottom of me Davey Jones locker eh?
To: Simon Green; SunkenCiv; BenLurkin
In 5, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, ...
Cue the governments trying to get their tax “fair share” off of the people actually recovering the treasures from this “unclaimed” wreck!
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posted on
05/23/2018 9:57:51 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: Simon Green
The exact location of the wreckage is still a secret, but it was discovered in November 2015 off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia. Its cargo of gold, silver, and emeralds could be worth as much as $17 billion. I would think Columbian pirates would be quite interested.
To: Simon Green
Maybe it wasn’t worth $17B back then, but I always wondered what the motivation was for the Spanish and other European monarchies was to load up all that treasure onto a sailing ship and send it out to sea. I guess in many cases it was to buy goods to bring back to Spain.
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posted on
05/23/2018 9:59:24 AM PDT
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Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: Robert A Cook PE
Cue the governments trying to get their tax fair share off of the people actually recovering the treasures from this unclaimed wreck! From later in the article:
The wreck has been shrouded in secrecy because of lingering questions about who owns it.
Colombia and Spain both say it belongs to them. The researchers at Woods Hole say they are explorers, not treasure hunters, and are not involved in the ownership disputes.
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posted on
05/23/2018 10:03:08 AM PDT
by
Simon Green
("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
To: Magnum44
No, the treasure was to bring back to Spain to fill Phillp’s coffers.
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posted on
05/23/2018 10:04:24 AM PDT
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AFreeBird
To: Robert A Cook PE; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Robert A Cook PE. Say what you want about those English Privateers and freelance pirates from everywhere, momma nature kept more gold out of Spanish hands than did the Jolly Roger. When I was in junior high (middle school, for those of a younger demographic) one of my classmates brought an interesting thing to social studies (the leftist perversion of history, when history was eliminated from curricula) -- some relative of hers was trying to raise money to recover sunken treasure, and we passed around the sample, a Spanish Real from 300-350 years before. Wonder what happened with that?
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posted on
05/23/2018 10:06:21 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: Magnum44
I always wondered what the motivation was for the Spanish and other European monarchies was to load up all that treasure onto a sailing ship and send it out to sea. Spain was at war in Europe for nearly the entire 16th century and beyond. That's very expensive.
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posted on
05/23/2018 10:06:51 AM PDT
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PGR88
To: Magnum44
[[ I guess in many cases it was to buy goods to bring back to Spain.]]
Nope=- it was to buy scratch off tickets
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posted on
05/23/2018 10:08:46 AM PDT
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Bob434
To: AFreeBird
That makes sense... stolen or fleeced from Inca’s and Aztecs?
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posted on
05/23/2018 10:08:56 AM PDT
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Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: Magnum44
Maybe it wasnt worth $17B back then, but I always wondered what the motivation was for the Spanish and other European monarchies was to load up all that treasure onto a sailing ship and send it out to sea. I guess in many cases it was to buy goods to bring back to Spain. Back then, money was real gold and silver. If your country wanted to put more money into circulation, they had to find more gold and silver.
These ships weren't taking gold from Europe to the Americas, they were taking gold and silver from the New World and returning it to the Old World to increase the Old World's total wealth.
Unfortunately they didn't have the Weather Channel back then, so they didn't know when they were about to sail into a hurricane.
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posted on
05/23/2018 10:08:59 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Simon Green
And now they’ll be tied up in court for 10 years. Never announce a big find until after you’ve landed the treasure.
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posted on
05/23/2018 10:11:59 AM PDT
by
discostu
(It's been so long, welcome back my friend, to the show, that never ends.)
To: Simon Green
The exact location of the wreckage is still a secret Not to the Chinese spy satellites.
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posted on
05/23/2018 10:12:33 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: Simon Green
Spain always lays claim to any found Spanish wreck regardless of where its found. Theyve succeeded a few times in getting their share.
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posted on
05/23/2018 10:13:17 AM PDT
by
sheana
To: Simon Green
Why announce this, when Spain will just sue to freeze it and claim the wreck again?
Just quietly sell the contents to an interested party.
To: Simon Green
So, that’s where I misplaced my ship. It’s mine. All mine!
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posted on
05/23/2018 10:16:48 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Magnum44
More like the other way, they looted other cultures and sent the gold home.
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posted on
05/23/2018 10:22:34 AM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: montag813
Agreed. I call BS.
He’s after funding and/or film rights.
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posted on
05/23/2018 10:23:34 AM PDT
by
Eccl 10:2
(Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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