Even recovered, ship's gold remains mystery
Updated: 2011-05-30 08:10:27
By Kathy Lynn Gray - Dispatch
The proposal seemed preposterous: Tommy Thompson, an engineer and shipwreck-enthusiast, said he could find a steamer that had sunk in 1857 off the Carolina coast with 21 tons of gold in its hold.Wealthy central Ohio men and women listened, and one by one anteed up money so Thompson's expedition could move forward. The chance that Thompson would find the ship was one in a million, they knew. On the other hand, he was so confident, so persuasive, so sure he could find...
By Sara Reardon - Science Mag
Between 1520 and 1650, Spain’ economy suffered crippling and unrelenting inflation in the so-called Price Revolution. Most historians have attributed that inflation, in part, to the importation, starting in 1550, of silver from the Americas, which supposedly put much more currency into circulation in Spain. But in a report out this week, a team of researchers argues that for more than a century the Spanish did not use this imported silver to make coins, suggesting...
By Dustin Etheridge - WECT
The Queen Anne's Revenge is considered by many to be one of the most well preserved and historic shipwrecks of the modern era.Last week it was announced that the main anchor of that ship would be excavated. One man who doesn't agree with that is the Queen Anne's Revenge discoverer, Captain Mike Daniel."We all need to look at this and 'go wait a minute.' Everyone needs to be aware of what's about to happen here," said Daniel. "When this anchor is removed, we're...
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By ohn Cousins - Bay of Plenty Times
An archeological survey of a 130-year-old shipwreck off the Western Bay of Plenty turned sour for a team of divers on Saturday after they encountered a hostile reception from fishermen.The divers managed to map the stern half of the steamship, which sank in 1881, but not before the expedition suffered abuse from recreational fishers and had its seabed survey baselines hooked and dragged up.The team, which underwent specialist...
From the Washington Post - Florida deep-sea explorers asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to overturn an earlier ruling that 17 tons of treasure recovered from a sunken Spanish galleon belongs to Spain, deepening a long-running battle over a trove worth an estimated $500 million that has unfolded not on the high seas but in federal courtrooms.Attorneys for Odyssey Marine Exploration asked the three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the “finders keepers”...
Today I am at the the symposium “Protein Chemistry ‐ Applications to Combat Diseases”, which takes place in Copenhagen a few minutes walk from where I work. This morning started with a keynote lecture by Nobel Laurate Avram Hershko on regulation of the cell division cycle by ubiquitin‐mediated protein degradation. This post is just a very quick [...]
From Culture 24
Captain Kidd is variously portrayed as one of the most dastardly pirates of the 17th century and a privateer whose bravery in attacking hostile foreign ships deserved a little more than his gristly fate. His execution in Wapping, pointedly, has its 210th anniversary during the first week of this show.Just as Kidd remains a folkloric figurehead, informing the depiction of characters such as Blackbeard and Captain Jack Sparrow on stage, screen and page, so his life is a starting...
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y Jeremy Lee - ABC News
Rob Simpson is certain he knows where the fabled Mahogany ship is buried.
The search for the Mahogany ship has been the subject of much discussion over the years with many people putting forward theories about what it might've been and where it might be buried.The story has intrigued Melbourne based amateur archaeologist Rob Simpson who's spent a lot of time reading the literature relating to the ship and using the various reported sightings...
Yesterday, Rangarajan and coworkers published a paper in BMC Bioinformtatics entitled “Toward an interactive article: integrating journals and biological databases”. Not many hours later Neil Saunders made the following tweet commenting on it: This reminded me of a draft blog post that I wrote in 2008 on the use of the word “toward(s)” in article [...]
By aphael G. Satter - CBS News
Many know of Captain Kidd, the Scottish-born buccaneer who terrorized the Indian ocean and was hanged as a pirate at London's Execution Dock.Fewer know of his services to the British crown, his royal seal of approval, and the powerful, well-connected noblemen who Kidd believed double-crossed him.A new exhibit at the Museum of London Docklands argues that Kidd's career wasn't as black-and-white as the skull-and-crossbones, and invites people to ask whether...
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By Trent Toone - Deseret News
Audiences clamor to see "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" in theaters today, they will meet a well-known, notorious high-seas villain with a cold and fearsome demeanor, clad in heavy black leather and with a braided black beard.His name is Blackbeard, and his infamous, legendary reputation precedes him, right ?"He had a really good press agent," says Lawrence Babits, a distinguished academic who teaches in the Department of History and Maritime Studies at...
About five years ago George Church announced the Personal Genome Project (PGP). A very interesting aspect of this project is that all data are released under the Creative Commons Zero waiver. This includes not only the genetic data, but also some medical information and even the identity of each individual. Although PGP has enrolled more [...]