[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SJackson.

[snip] The San José galleon — with 600 crew members onboard — sank some 2,000 feet on June 8, 1708, during a battle against the British in the War of the Spanish Succession... in 1981, the US company Glocca Morra claimed it discovered the lost treasure and turned over its coordinates to Colombia with the promise it would receive half the fortune when recovered... in 2015, Colombia's then-President Juan Manuel Santos said the country's navy found the San José wreck at a different location on the sea floor. [/snip]

What a surprise, gov't fraud.

[abb]

Mel Fisher had to go to the US Supreme Court to prevent the State of FL from stealing part of the Atocha’s treasure.

Florida Dept. of State v. Treasure Salvors, Inc., 458 U.S. 670 (1982)
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/458/670/