[Robert A Cook PE]

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!

[Simon Green]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

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?

[Pontiac]

Colombia and Spain both say it belongs to them.

Spain: Hmmm, $17 billion?

That ship belongs to us.

That ship is Spainish soveriegn territory. That stuff belongs to us. All that money you spent finding it is immaterial.

Thanks and so long.

[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.