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The emeralds from the Atocha are some of the finest emeralds in the world. They come from the Muzo Mine in Colombia. The emeralds of Muzo are renowned for their color, fire and geometry. [12] The State of Florida claimed title to the wreck and forced Fisher's company, Treasure Salvors, Inc., into a contract giving 25% of the found treasure to ...
Since 2014, part of the treasure has been on display in several Spanish public museums as part of an extensive itinerant exhibit relating to the sinking of the ship, and the recovery of the treasure. On August 30, 2017, as a follow-up to the project, the Spanish Navy rescued two cannons, named "Santa Barbara" and "Santa Rufina", each weighing ...
Spanish treasure ships sank off Florida’s west coast during hurricanes more than 300 years ago, leaving their spoils on the ocean floor Florida officials and FBI recover $1 million worth of ...
The Swedish-based OceanX describe themselves as treasure hunters and salvage operators. [6] According to the team, they returned from an expedition in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland with a "blurry but interesting" sonar image while searching for an old shipwreck in the summer of 2011. They have claimed their image shows a 60-metre ...
Legal battles over this kind of sunken treasure aren't uncommon. Odyssey Marine Exploration uncovered $600 million in sunken treasure in the Atlantic in 2007, but a court ruled it had to hand it ...
The University of Haifa recently announced that 160 ancient coins depicting Alexander Jannaeus were found during an excavation in the Jordan Valley in December.
Odyssey’s first big treasure discovery came in 2003 when they found the Civil War-Era shipwreck of Republic. [10] An extensive archaeological excavation was conducted that included a pre- disturbance survey and around 2,500 underwater high-resolution images captured and used to create a photomosaic of the entire site. [ 11 ]
The remains of a 300-year-old British warship found 30 years ago in the waters off Florida have ... which is what Garden Key is known for today. ... a 2004 law called the Sunken Military Craft Act ...