Billion Dollars Of Gold Found In Ship Wreck
 

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090202...d-6323e80.html

Ouch!! OUCH!!

fucking crazy

Finding old millitary ships is so fucked up. Damn guberments get to keep the stuff.

With Gold currently at $900 plus per ounce........ damn they should of just taken it, melted it down and made JUGS of SOLID GOLD and then sold them in some artsy fartsy gold shop in london. :1orglaugh

GOLDJUGSONLINE.COM

Leave it to the Florida treasure hunters for find it.

nice findings !

killer find.. how fucked the govt keeps it.. the negotiation for reward better be in the double digit millions..

The british crown does not relinquish any rights to their property ever, hence the warship and its content is theirs:2 cents:

Pretty cool

nice find, hopefully they get a small % for all of the time they invested into this

:1orglaugh
Good idea.Did you see 'Heist' with Gene Hackman?

I'd be bucking for a heavy finders fee!

I found a rubber ducky once!

Agreed Adam :2 cents:

Actually it stands for any government. Marine Law does recognize that State owned vehicles (ships) are entitled to sovereign immunity and are not considered to be available for salvage.

And lose it.. Ask Mel Fisher.

Instant Bailout

$1 Billion in Gold Bullion and they decide to raise 2 bronze canons weighing 4 tonnes? What is wrong with these people. Go after the gold!
WG

i would have kept it for myself and not told anyone

That is typically how they identify ships. Pretty sure they have not actually located the gold that should of been on it.

Damn what a awesome find.I want to be a treasure hunter

I fucked all of their mothers...

Not if it's in international waters. This was found in the English Channel which is why the govt gets the rights.

They will not give up the location of the wreck or bring up any gold until they know how much of it they get. It's their only bargaining chip.

They should have just kept their mouths shut and slowly dig up the gold. If I was the military, I'd get some of those surveillance satellites of their ship and see what path they took :)
WG

i took photo of that yesterday ...

http://cillik.net/gfy/treas.jpg

Oppressive government policies like that will only encourage treasure hunters to do it quietly, this destroying important archaeological relics and priceless historical data.

Fucking lazy greedy bastards!

Really nice find!!

Is this from Disneyland?:) I have exact same picture i took in Disneyland this year:)

hehe it is from google :) dont know the origin :winkwink:

I don't believe the people that discover it should get to keep it anyway, maybe a small portion but lets be honest, it doesn't belong to them

Finders keepers :thumbsup

I watched some treasure hunter documentary thing on one of the science type channels, can not remember which one - oddly like a week or so ago.
They said on more than one occasion that any military wreck they find belongs to the country of origin and that after identification and such they need to gather permission to continue with bringing any up. This was not only in local waters and well into international waters.
They also spoke of the BS of how all ships need to register and are plotted on electronic maps that anyone can access live. How many other people watch what they are doing so they can possibly swipe any discovery that they make. They had located a wreck near a pretty large shipping lane and got really concerned so they left it for awhile and went to explore something else before heading back. That way they could watch the internet boards and stuff for any extra chatter, in case people got suspicious of them finding something again.
Then nearly everything revolved around the number and size of the cannons. They could figure out by the firing weight of cannons, the class of ship it would of been. Then get even more information from the individual cannons after that.

Honestly have no reason why I even watched that show that day, it just came on in the background while I was working.

and i wasn't there.......

HMS VICTORY

http://www.ship-paintings.com/large_...rafalgar_1.JPG

http://www.oldukphotos.com/graphics/...%20Victory.jpg

http://www.navy.mil.nz/nr/rdonlyres/...ckpainting.jpg

fuck brittain, my people were killed for not bowing to the crown, and we kicked their fucking asses in new orleans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Orleans

My family was in Louisiana before it was even AMERICA!!! They rounded many up put them on boats with no food or simply killed us, to this day, Brits are the enemy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadians

they caused my peoples holocaust, The Great Expulsion of 1755

my family came to this area in 1670s and inhabited this area until the brits came to invade, we still own p[lenty land down here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expulsion

nice find