Did anybody else beside's me see where those deepsea explorers found all that treasure.?

Question

They found hundreds of thousands of plastic containers packed with colonial-era silver and gold coins estimated at $500 million dollars from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean. It almost seems to be too good, to be true. They say records indicate that they may have come from a 17th century merchant ship found off southwestern of England. It sounds too good to be true, how can all that treasure go undetected for that long. It's the richest shipwreck ever found so far, the coins will eventually go for $1000 dollars each.

Answer 1

yeah, neat story. Supposedly they have been searching for almost 10 years. I guess that makes it worth it, but you really have to be dedicated. They are going to need every penny that their find brings them because they will most likely be fighting this in who-knows-how-many-countries courts' for the next 20 years. Laws are clearly established pertaining to oceanic finds and border lines, but you start talking 1/2 a billion dollars and some countries will start crying.

Answer 2

It's easy for these things to go undetected at the bottom of the ocean. It takes a lot of time, money and equipment to even start to search for a ship wreck. And if you're looking at finding a wooden ship from a few hundred years ago, then you're looking for something that has sunk into the sand, or has rotted away. Not an easy thing to find.

And very often you don't even know where to look, because they didn't know where the ship sank in the first place most of the time.

Imagine if I put a dime at the bottom of a swimming pool in your city and you have to find it. Not really easy, but doable. Now imagine I don't tell you which pool it's in, just that it's in A pool somewhere in the city. How long do you think it would take for you to give up?

Answer 3

NOPE! That's all they do, look for rich shipwrecks. Its not their 1st big find. They found the S.S. Republic and pulled gold out of that wreck enough to fill 10 pickup trucks. They are presently looking for a ship in the Mediterranean Sea called the Essex that supposed to have gone done with 20 pickups worth of gold. And these are full size Dodge Ram pickups too! http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGIC,GGIC:2007-03,GGIC:en&q=odyssey+shipwreck