Shipwreck legal intanglements

mrbrklyn · Oct 14, 2012

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/10/13/salvage-firm-widened-its-focus.html

A former director of Tommy Thompson’s salvage company testified yesterday that by 1998, the business had expanded to find numerous shipwrecks, not just to retrieve treasure it had found a decade earlier.

James F. Turner said in Franklin County Common Pleas Court that the company’s goals changed to finding and recovering historic deep-sea shipwrecks and developing robotic recovery systems.Previously, he said, the purpose had been to recover the treasure from the SS Central America, a ship that sank in 1857 off the North Carolina coast with tons of gold aboard. Thompson, a former Battelle scientist, found the wreck and recovered 3 tons of gold and artifacts in 1988.
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