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1 posted on 05/23/2018 9:53:09 AM PDT by Simon Green
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Always cool....

A piece of the action would be cool, too.

2 posted on 05/23/2018 9:56:42 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Aaargh! At the bottom of me Davey Jones locker eh?


3 posted on 05/23/2018 9:57:38 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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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!


4 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.)
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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.

5 posted on 05/23/2018 9:58:49 AM PDT by plain talk
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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.


6 posted on 05/23/2018 9:59:24 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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And now they’ll be tied up in court for 10 years. Never announce a big find until after you’ve landed the treasure.


14 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.)
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The exact location of the wreckage is still a secret

Not to the Chinese spy satellites.

15 posted on 05/23/2018 10:12:33 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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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.


17 posted on 05/23/2018 10:15:39 AM PDT by montag813
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So, that’s where I misplaced my ship. It’s mine. All mine!


18 posted on 05/23/2018 10:16:48 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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with the help of an underwater robot. It's called the Remus 6000 and it can dive nearly four miles and is loaded with sensors and cameras

70% of Earth's recoverable gold is waiting to be discovered, and it will be done with robots. And then robots will burrow down into Earth's molten core and bring back much more than that.

26 posted on 05/23/2018 10:43:22 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Simon Green
Ssshhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Keep your voices down, else Mel Fisher might hear you. And he's liable to come back from the dead just so he can beat everybody to the treasure!

32 posted on 05/23/2018 11:38:24 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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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.


41 posted on 05/24/2018 7:25:58 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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Unbelievably clear photos and the cannons aren’t seriously encrusted to be obscured for some reason.


42 posted on 05/24/2018 8:09:02 AM PDT by wildbill (Quis Custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen?)
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