Odyssey Gold

Odyssey Marine’s best friend does not appear to be Spain, if information just in is correct.

“Spain targets US treasure ships”

That’s the headline on a BBC story dated June 5, 2007 at 21:00 GMT (5:00 PM EDT). The article goes on to say, “a judge in Cadiz instructed police to capture the ships if they entered Spanish waters“, citing unnamed Spanish media . There were no other new details written. The balance of the story was a recap of the discovery, recovery and removal of an estimated US$500,000,000.00 in coin from a colonial era sunken ship, said by Odyssey officials, to be located in the Atlantic off the SW coast of the UK.

The complete BBC story may be found at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6725059.stm

Elmer Hurlstone 6/5/07 8:44 PM EDT

The complete press release from which the above was excerpted may be viewed at: http://shipwreckandtreasure.com/Portals/2/release.pdf

Newschannel 8 anchor Bob Hite intro’d an interesting and detailed story about Odyssey, MOSI, the exhibit, pirates and lost treasure. I wasn’t able to obtain a direct link to the video clip. WFLA-TV reporter Jeff Patterson goes through file video of Odyssey search and exploration techniques while providing background on the company. Video is also shown of the new displays for the exhibit. OMR Exec. Vice President Mark Gordon is intervied by Patterson. Since I don’t have a direct link to the video clip you can find it by going to www.WFLA.com, it is titled, “New MOSI Display” under the “MORE: Local News Tab. It runs 3:12 and is well done. It does contain a little footage of the possibly $500,000,000.00 recent Atlantic find.

Beginning the Craziness

Odyssey, the gold – and the world…

Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc., on Friday, May 18, 2007,  announced a major recovery of silver and gold coins and other artifacts from a sunken ship located in the Atlantic Ocean outside the territorial waters of any nation.

Initial reports of the find were published in various newspapers, blogs and on other media web sites. A majority of the first stories, attributed to AP reporter Mitch Stacy, were illustrated with a photo showing pallets of plastic five gallon pails being unloaded from an aircraft. The pails were said to contain approximately 500,000 coins weighing about 17 tons. While the majority of coins were said to be silver there were also some gold coins. Odyssey representatives did not place a value on the find.

 And that’s just the beginning; from there the stories went wild.

More to come…