Newstory:Odyssey's Possible New Find

You are not allowed to view links.
Please Register or Login

For treasure seeker, a possible new find

Needing a big payday, Odyssey Marine Exploration of Tampa may have found a valuable shipwreck off the British coast.


By SCOTT BARANCIK, Times Staff Writer
Published October 6, 2006
A Tampa treasure-hunting company whose recovery of a valuable shipwreck in 2003 provided a glorious, if brief, respite from years of frustration says it may have found another sunken treasure near the mouth of the English Channel.

Odyssey Marine Exploration recently told a federal judge in Tampa that a wreck it discovered about 1,000 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean this summer could be a 17th-century merchant vessel that sank with ?valuable cargo? on board.

In keeping with the treasure hunter?s tradition of guarding its finds, Odyssey?s court filings provided no details on the ship?s likely name, country of origin or wreck date. The company merely identified a point on the globe, said the wreck site was within a 5-mile radius of it, and handed the U.S. Marshals Office as evidence of the find a bottle it recovered from the site. Co-founder Greg Stemm declined to comment Friday when asked about the ship.

 ?When we?re ready,? he said, ?we?ll be announcing a bunch more information.? . . . . . .

Linkback:

You are not allowed to view links.
Please Register or Login