Posted October 18, 200717 yr http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ap_Odyssey_071017_ms.jpg GIBRALTAR (Reuters) - A Spanish warship intercepted a U.S. treasure-hunting vessel that it suspects took gold and silver worth an estimated $500 million from a sunken Spanish galleon, the U.S. crew said on Tuesday. The Spanish Navy corvette blocked the Odyssey Explorer after it left the British territory of Gibraltar and threatened to open fire when the captain refused to let police board. Police later arrested the boat's American captain, Sterling Vorus, a company official said. www.abcnews.com The warship had escorted the boat, which belongs to U.S. company Odyssey Marine Exploration, to the Spanish port of Algeciras so police could carry out a search. "They threatened that we must obey or they would use deadly force," Ali Nessar, a company representative on the boat, told Reuters by phone. "We were forced at gunpoint to come to Algeciras." The incident is the latest in a dispute dating back to May when Madrid said Odyssey's discovery of the treasure trove might have come from Spanish waters or from a Spanish galleon in international waters. In both cases Spain remains the rightful owner of the booty, the government says. Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration has said it has legally discovered 17 tons of silver coins plus gold while working on a wreck code-named "Black Swan" at a secret location in the Atlantic Ocean.
October 18, 200717 yr Yeap,imagine how much did they work to find such things and how "lucky" they are to lost the treasure like this.Hope that they get something from that treasue cause they deserve it.
October 18, 200717 yr Man, That would be nice to pull up when fishing for snapper. "Look Man, 17 tons of silver."
October 18, 200717 yr If you pull up 17 tons of silver thinking its a snapper, either ill bow down to you cause you must the man...or you are deffently on something lol. :thumbsup:
October 18, 200717 yr If you pull up 17 tons of silver thinking its a snapper, either ill bow down to you cause you must the man...or you are deffently on something lol. Hahahahaha. Np Kidding. 34,000lbs test line. :thumbsup:
October 19, 200717 yr He's stealing those 17 tons of silver coins to fuel the PAC war effort :thumbsup:
October 19, 200717 yr Crazy I read something like 500,000,000 dollars worth. its the largest treasure find ever recorded to have actually been pulled out of the water. There has been rumored a ship off of Cuba i think that has an estimated 1.6 billion in treasures but the government there cant get to it and guards it so that others cannot get to it either I read about it but dont know if its true.
October 22, 200717 yr If I found it, I would buy each Armory Member the sickest gaming machine possible. So you've got that in the bank. Which is nice.
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