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Florida treasure-hunting firm Odyssey Marine Exploration struck jackpots last week with huge announcements.
On top of two new shipwreck site finds, Odyssey will be in front of millions of people worldwide in a new prime time TV series on the Discovery Channel.
Odyssey filed admiralty arrests in the U.S. District Court for the [...]

Interesting news for the day include a planned return to the Beringia land bridge by famed archaeologist Jacques Cinq-Mars, and a new interactive Web site that lets visitors peruse the maritime history within the waters of Ohio’s Lake Erie. Let’s get to the links…
Nearly 20 years ago, Canadian archaeologist Jacques Cinq-Mars discovered a 28,000 [...]

Rare gold coins discovered in a sunken steamship off the Louisiana coast have been put under the microscope of sorts, by coin experts.
The SS New York was a 165-foot side-wheel steamship that was found under some 60 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico.
It carried within its hull coins made in [...]

The Namibian government is taking over the responsibility for the excavation of the 500-year old shipwreck diamond hunters found in the Atlantic, off the Namibia, African coast.
Last month geologists hunting for diamonds instead discovered a several hundred year old shipwreck filled with silver and gold coins, copper ingots, cannons and other valuable artifacts.
The [...]

Odyssey Marine Exploration, a shipwreck treasure-hunting company based in Florida, has announced their first quarter 2008 earnings to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
By accounts, their legal battle with Spain over the 17-tons of silver coins found in a shipwreck of May of 2007 isn’t helping them. Not only must the legal bills be substantial, [...]

Geologists hunting for diamonds instead discovered a several hundred year old shipwreck filled with silver and gold coins, copper ingots, cannons and other valuable artifacts.
Namdeb Diamond Corporation, a joint venture of the government of Namibia and the mining company De Beers, made the discovery during mining operations in the Atlantic, off the [...]

Taking steps that could be considered more procedural in impact, U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday made several rulings in relationship to the Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. v. The Unidentified Shipwrecked Vessel (Spain) case.
As you may recall from past HuntTreasure.net articles, this series of events started in May of 2007, when the [...]

Back in 1701 Captain William Kidd was convicted of piracy and hung by the neck - twice in fact, since the hangman’s rope broke the first time.
The legendary Captain Kidd had actually sailed to his death. However, not on a ship and sunk in any battle, but on a trip to New York [...]

Miami, Florida (US)  —   There’s been an interesting series of twists and turns in the struggle between Odyssey Marine Exploration, a Florida based company that specializes in deep ocean shipwreck exploration, and the Spanish government.
Earlier this year Odyssey discovered and recovered a huge haul - apparently 17 tons - of silver and gold [...]

Near perfect, that is, for a wooden ship that’s been lying on the floor of the Baltic Sea for several hundred years.
The shipwreck wasn’t purposely found but discovered by a TV crew working on an underwater documentary series. The crew works for Swedish public broadcaster SVT.
What’s unusual about the find is the [...]

Take yourself through a mental journey reaching back 2,400 years. Picture yourself on a ship riding the high sees. Got it? Okay. Let’s move on…
It’s early evening and you’re thinking and dreading the monotonous dinner that’s always served.
You find yourself a place to eat, and finally glance over at the meal being served. [...]

The 1997 movie Titanic romanticized while also reflecting the tragedy of Titanic’s sinking and the loss of nearly 1,500 lives.
Now, thanks to the BBC, you can get a new perspective and rediscovery of Titanic and its wreckage that’s equally compelling, wondrous, and, yet, educational.

Torrential downpours can stir up lost treasure on land while severe drought can reveal old sunken boats and ships.
North Carolina has received the negative and positive of the latter - drought, being the obvious negative, and the uprising of a 1820’s boat in the Tar River being the positive.
The wooden boat is [...]

Tidal currents slammed the Torrent, a square-rigged sailing vessel, into an Alaskan reef back in 1868. The crew escaped with their lives, but the ship was lost.
Fast forward 139 years and remnants of the old ship can once again be seen, and now in video no-less. That’s due to Steve Lloyd and his dive [...]