Robot sub finds 'holy grail of shipwrecks' with treasure worth billions

MSN ^ | 05/23/18

[ro_dreaming]

Jeff Kaeli, a research engineer with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

I’m a bad man. I read that as “Wrong Hole Oceanographic Institution”.

Cool find! I remember when the Atocha was found off Florida, and a buddy of mine purchased a coin from her.

[wildbill]

Unbelievably clear photos and the cannons aren’t seriously encrusted to be obscured for some reason.

[colorado tanker]

Several years ago I watched an episode of a reality show where a group of people went to one of the most remote and miserable places in the world looking for gold. Gold still does something to people when it gets into their head.

[Waverunner]

Yes thank the globalists for rewriting maritime law.
It used to be that if you lost a ship, and couldn’t salvage it in a reasonable amount of time, the contents belonged to whoever found the ship and salvaged it. If an insurer payed out on a ship, they might have a claim, but only for a limited period of time. Suddenly by new law, any really old shipwreck became a warship or government owned ship. Even if the new government overthrew and destroyed the old government 50, 100, or 600 years ago. I’m surprised that the US doesn’t claim a piece of any old ship found, after all we were English or Dutch or Spanish or French or Chinese or Japanese at the time. And how do we know that the sunken ship wasn’t taken by privateers before it’s sinking.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Careful! Be very, very careful about attributes and reputations of the (original) Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute, and the much newer enviro-ecotechnical-fuzzy-green Wood Hole Research Center and the closely associated Woods Hole Group - both quasi-study groups that specialize in fund-raising and publicity stunts using their near-duplicate of the (original) Wood Hole name and its location in Woods Hole, MA.

[SunkenCiv]