[SunkenCiv]

Coins on the ocean floor at the Black Swan site (courtesy of Odyssey Marine Exploration)

[bboop]

‘lies’ a story, is it not?

[DesertRhino]

“WikiLeaks, reported that U.S. officials offered to help Spain in the court fight over the sunken treasure.
In exchange, they asked assistance for returning a valuable Impressionist painting looted by the Nazis during WWII”

So the US govt was offering to screw an American who worked hard, and brought up treasure that the lazy Spanish would have never recovered. And they were doing it to benefit someone in Europe who got their painting stolen by Nazis.

WOW,,, glad the government has the ability to classify things like this. Their secrecy mostly covers them stabbing the USA in the back.

[Waverunner]

If that gold and silver belongs to anyone other than the people who raised it from the ocean floor, it belongs to the people of mexico and peru that had their country looted by the spanish.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

“The possibility that someone in the U.S. government came up with this perfidious offer to sacrifice Odyssey, its thousands of shareholders, and the many jobs created by the company in exchange for the return of one painting to one individual is hard to believe,” the company said in a statement.

Once you come to know the Obama administration, it isn't hard to believe at all.

[GladesGuru]

State Department ‘Bachelor’s Children’ doin’ their thing.