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