GGG PING!
Is that smaller or larger than a bread-box? The referant, 'loonie', doesn't compute for someone from Texas.
/john
WHAT???
That is an affront and an insult to the hard work of the divers. The province shouldn't get a dime or a dabloom
The province takes a 10 per cent share of all goods recovered from such wrecks. Le Chameau Explorations and its shareholders get the rest to sell at auction houses, mostly in Europe or the United States.
There's the real reason Nova Scotia is now a treasure-hunter's mecca right there! The province believes in doing honest business; a ten percent cut and that's all. I used to read about sunken treasure when I was a kid and I remember the outrages often suffered by treasure salvors when they actually found something of value. Most memorably the late Mel Fisher's long-running battle with the State of Florida over the Atocha loot. But again, nearly every great find occasioned a great legal scrap as everyone with the slightest imaginable claim tried to go "treasure-hunting without getting your feet wet." This might have something to do with the fact that our heroes here do not seem to be pretending not to know the name and nationality of the wrecks they are digging up.
***Marine archeologist Duncan Matthewson of Florida said Nova Scotia's southern and eastern waters are full of wrecks because of the low shoal that follows the rugged shoreline.***
Nonsense! Anyone with an ounce of brains knows that the cause is the evil Nova Scotia Triangle that sucks ships in and sinks them just as the evil Bermuda Triangle does the same!
Doomed I tell you! Doomed!
Sarcasm off.
--Boot Hill
What a letdown... c'mon back... what's your handle, good buddy?
BTTT
regards,
Ping
Wouldn't it be interesting if something looted from the White House when it was burned turned up in one of these wrecks?
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Cool. Something not many know, this is a hobby of mine. I even worked as a salvage diver for part a summer for one of Mel Fishers sub companies out of the Keyes. Dove the Atocha wreck site!
They are working in the area of the "Andrea Gail". I hope that they find her, so that crew may come home finally.
BTTT
Monday, November 15, 2004 Back The Halifax Herald Limited Contributed These gold coins and cross were found off Sable Island from the French frigate HFM L'Africaine, lost May 16, 1822. The ship was bound for France with a full cargo of Latin American gold and silver bullion, worth three million pesos at the time. The Grand Cross, given by Louis the 15th of France, belonged to Jacques IV Gouyon de Matignon who was onboard with other officers.