Treasure

[Csail]

http://www.ybw.com/auto/newsdesk/20070917102615ymnews.html

So with modern equipment why is it so hard to find? and what are the legal isues if you did find it?

 

[Pete7]

If you look at a channel chart its littered with wrecks and those are the ones they know about, needle in a hay stack springs to mind. Identifying a ship from something that resembles a scrap yard is a real problem.
The Atocha took Mel Fisher and his family 16 years to find and sadly cost the life of his son and daughter in law. If you were investing money in him to find the treasure after how many years would you call it quits?

http://www.atocha.com/atocha_history.php

This is a good read of a husband a wife team going from riches to bust and back again over twenty years in salvage.

http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Water-Moya-Crawford/dp/0901281832

Pete

 

[Twister_Ken]

"So with modern equipment why is it so hard to find?

I can't even find my reading glasses on my desk, and the sea is much bigger place to search!

Imagine a report that says "The galleon was sunk 130 leagues south west of Cape Trafalgar." What margins of error are there in that pre-GPS, pre-sextant, pre-chronometer statement?