Man 'finds' buried Spanish treasure ship using Google Earth (New Kerala)

50 years ago, wouldn't be an issue.

Has anyone noticed how many laws have been created to limit your movement and what you do. Its like your only allowed to got to work, and home. I mean if its fun, or makes you money, seems like its not allowed. Im afraid to post anything of great value without a corporate sponsor, chuckles. Remember its for your safety......now Im really laughing. Im more afraid of the police and court systems than I am of the criminals, ok peeing my pants laughing.

I use googlemaps to help me search areas on my cell phone. I could never navigate all the sites for claims, private land and BLM and such. I can actually see me traversing the area, with gps coordinates. My next major purchase will be a good handheld gps, like a garmin extrex, maybe something with and emergency call button case I get into trouble. In todays age, you really have to use gps and googlemaps to stay legal. I have never had a bad run in with a park ranger, law enforcement, or private land owner using my gps. The penalties in some cases are worse than having a dui, if you tresspass or search for treasure on protected sites.

This may all be taken as a gimmee, but if your new like myself its eye opening. I look at all the old places I used to go with different eyes. Google Earth, has open up a new frontier for me also. But there is nothing like boots on the ground.

I wish the two gentlemen the best of luck, and hope the state of some country doesnt take it from them both. It would be nice to see them share, and get it into a museum for all of us to see.

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3 billion dollars seems to be a ridiculously high amount to estimate. Have any treasures found ever come close to such an amount?

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Interesting find & pending legal battle,

In the end the attorneys win, with the legal fees affixed to this long drawn out and cumbersome determination of salvage and or Admiralty law.

Id like to zero in on the location using the information provided in the article, using Google Earth now to see the shoe print outline of the ship. (That can't be locked down to public eyes, I wouldn't think)

Hardlucks analysis makes sense to me on this issue, many mistakes were made by this new determined and noteworthy but inexperienced treasure hunter it appears, and who really knows how it will turn out.

(But its not like keep it quite till I can dig & confirm the wreck by some identifyable artifact and then I'll file public knowledge to any legal authority of jurisdiction, the location is no doubt somewhat in the open and so eventually he would be discovered if he didn't ask for permission. If he did seek permission & was making headway in uncovering some of the wreck site, well then it's for sure the owner would eventually see what was developing and would sure put a stop to the T'Hunters endevours...So it's possible this guy thought out as many "what ifs" along the way and felt what he did do was the best possible avenue of making a claim in the end?)

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Jim

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	Hello All There are many facets of this story is not very clear. And I can see two sides of the story. There is a good lesson here to see what not to do. For example how would you feel if some one knocked your door claiming there was a treasure on your property and wanted to dig up your back yard regardless if you agree or not? On the whim that there was treasure there seen from space and they presented very little evidence to support the claim? He may have found a wreck but is it an actual treasure ship? The problem is that he has presented no evidence of actual treasure only speculation based of what he has seen on goggle earth. Don't get me wrong Goggle earth is a wonderful tool but it should not be relied on it alone. Comprehensive research is needed to support his claims. I am interested in find out how he came to that figure of 3 Billion especially on the vessel dated around 1822. If he had built up evidence to support his theory then he could of had a better chance to negotiation with the owners or the state. But to publicly claim 3 billion dollars on some ones property without evidence I can understand the land owners concerns. That said the landowners lawyer showed great contempt of making a statement about the treasure hunter being a musician and not qualified to make these assumptions. Regardless of ones profession as long as one presents a valid and well researched case then it should be judged on its merits and not on a persons profession. This statement is a clear case of Academic snobbery that has infected society today. Sadly this treasure hunter has not done his homework and unfortunately will pay the price for his inexperience. Hardluck

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