Odyssey Hunts Nazi-Torpedoed Ship's $260 Million of Silver
Updated: 2011-03-30 05:50:00
From San Francisco Chronicle
Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc., the ocean salvager featured in the Discovery Channel series "Treasure Quest," is trying to recover silver valued at as much as $260 million by October from a ship torpedoed by a Nazi submarine in 1941.The Tampa, Florida-based company was awarded a contract by the U.K. government last year that would allow it to keep about 80 percent of the bullion treasure of the S.S. Gairsoppa, a cargo steamer sunk by a German U-boat off the Irish...
By Rachael Recker - The Grand Rapids Press
The Grand Rapids Public Museum is bringing the stories and artifacts of the 20th century's most infamous sunken ship to the Great Lakes State for its maiden Michigan voyage.Premier Exhibitions' “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” will make its Michigan debut, said the museum's spokesperson, Rebecca Westphal, in November in 2012 – the year that marks the 100th anniversary of the vessel's sinking.Historically, the month also is the most...
From uddersfield Daily Examiner
He has been working in the murky seas around Britain’ coast for 25 years.But now commercial diver Sean Ryan, of Huddersfield, has struck gold – quite literally!The 45-year-old from Crosland Moor has found a hoard of buried treasure.Okay, it may not be a rotting wooden chest full of gold doubloons and goblets.But the haul of coins, cutlery and medals he uncovered 120 metres down on the sea bed of the English Channel is worth a few thousand pounds.And...
By Jef Otte
Besides maybe monster-truck driver, Barry Clifford has about the most badass job that exists: He's a real-life, bona-fide treasure hunter. His 1983 discovery of the Whydah, a pirate ship wrecked off the coast of Cape Cod, provides the backbone of the Real Pirates exhibit currently at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and tonight, Clifford will talk about the process of finding that ship and the projects he and his crew are currently working on. But we got to him first. In advance...
By Matt Vande Bunte - The Grand Rapids Press
Sure, a 1990s movie about the Titanic brought in nearly $2 billion at the box office. But that’ not to say the infamous sinking has a corner on the market for shipwreck tales.In fact, “Michigan is incredibly endowed with gripping stories” of great historical significance, said an underwater expert who will speak this week in Grand Rapids.Ken Vrana and others will discuss two explorations in particular from 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday at...
From the Signal
The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is pleased to unveil its newest permanent exhibit, the shipwreck of the California Gold Rush steamship Winfield Scott.During the California Gold Rush, ships propelled by steam regularly carried passengers and cargos between San Francisco and Panama. One such vessel was the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's side-wheel steamer, Winfield Scott.In 1853, the steamer was en-route from San Francisco south bound to Panama with more than 500 passengers...
With about one month delay relative to the release of the new baseline of PubMed, here is the updated BuzzCloud visualization for what was hot and up-coming 2010 (click image for larger interactive version): Here is a quick overview of some of the trends that I found interesting: Geoepidemiology. A bit of searching in PubMed [...]
