[coydog]

This will only encourage treasure hunters to just make off with the stuff and sell it on the black market. No use doing it by the book and getting screwed over for their efforts.

[Hexenhammer]

Exactly. And if Spain was so concerned about the loot, they would have bothered to look for it. After 200 years of non-action, they gave up their claim.

If the salvagers lose the appeal, they should skip off with the loot and dump in the deepest trench in the ocean. Let Spain suck on that.

[Red in Blue PA]

Yup you nailed it!

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

This will only encourage treasure hunters to just make off with the stuff and sell it on the black market. No use doing it by the book and getting screwed over for their efforts.

The black market brought down the Soviet Union, not Reagan. It will be the way to bring down Internationalist America.