[Red Badger]

Ping!..........................

[Sequoyah101]

All just dead wrong. If you ever have something there will be people scheming to take it from you.

My BIL and I were at a BBQ joint years ago seated in a booth with high dividers made of wood planks. Behind me there sat a group of young fellows I knew to be newly or nearly newly minted lawyers. The conversation they were having that I overheard was about who in the area had enough money to be a lawsuit target for something, anything they could come up with. I knew one of the targets, an older fellow in town and told him to be wary. He died before the pettifogging lawyers came up with anything against him.

You don’t have to be guilty of a thing to be sued and ruined. It happens every day.

In Henry IV, Dick the Butcher conspired to kill all the lawyers to facilitate their overthrow of the government as they were obstacles to their ambitions by upholding the law. That view of lawyers as noble pillars of the community is much changed now. “First thing let’s do is kill all the lawyers.” but for much different reasons now.

[DesertRhino]

“Rust-covered gold coins recovered from the S.S. Central America steamship that went down in a hurricane in 1857, sit in small containers filled with water while being restored in a laboratory”

Gold doesn’t rust... at all. It’s a noble metal.

[DesertRhino]

The Federal government is filthy. They go after treasure hunters like nobody else.

[Carry_Okie]

First came the insurance companies. Lawyers for 39 firms argued that the gold belonged to the insurers, as they had paid claims on the cargo they guaranteed on the original voyage.

I hate the legal system. Here we have one creative, intelligent, industrious, and thoroughly trained individual who discovered and recovered all that wealth upon which "the system" subsists chugging off millions to pay for air conditioned courtrooms, bailiffs, clerks, reporters... virtually all useless people toward creating wealth. Yeah, he owed the sonar techs and such, but he didn't deserve all this.

BTW, the author of this piece is a great storyteller.

[broken_clock]

Fascinating story. Thanks for posting 👍

[Deaf Smith]

Good read.

I had no idea this saga is still ongoing since the gold recovery from the shipwreck.

[Bigg Red]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[DesertRhino]

There needs to be some kind of law reform, that insurance companies have a 75 or 100 year limit, to either the lost cargo, or it’s open for whoever can salvage it.

[21twelve]

I know one of the guys mentioned in the article. He went on to develop some amazing underwater equipment.