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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 Republic was the largest ship to sink in history at the time when it sank off the U.S. East Coast in January 1909 and was rumored to be carrying a large cargo of gold. After two and a half years of research, Bayerle discovered the wreck in 1981.The Associated Press, June 28, 1983, Tuesday, AM cycle, Domestic News, 447 words.
A team of researchers, led by Sanada, decided to search for the 170-year-old Camargo shipwreck. With the local Black community’s help, researchers determined a possible location of the wreck ...