Also known as the SS Gairsoppa, this valuable vessel was a British steam merchant ship built in In , the ship was discovered by Odyssey Marine along with tons of silver off the coast near Ireland. The Antikythera ship sank more than years ago near the Greek island of Antikythera on the edge of the Aegean Sea. In , the shipwreck was discovered by sponge divers. From , more treasures were yielded from the wreckage, including statues made of marbles, bronze and gold coins.
Most of the findings are on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Greece. A list wouldn't be complete without featuring this infamous boat. The Titanic was carrying more than passengers and crew members when it sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in after colliding with an iceberg. What you may not have known is that on board the ship were many expensive artefacts, including gold, diamonds, silver and more, which weren't discovered until When a ship has been discovered, the country where the ship was registered can point to something called sovereign immunity in addition to claims of ownership.
This refers to a specific category of ships that are immune from legal proceedings by another state. Warships and other government ships operated for non-commercial purposes enjoy sovereign immunity, says Mr Mackintosh.
Under the sovereign immunity principle in , a judge in the US ruled the court lacked jurisdiction over a case involving a treasure hunting company called Odyssey Marine Exploration and the wreck of the Spanish ship the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes. But the company was ordered to give back the haul - an estimated half a million coins and other artefacts - to the government of Spain. Odyssey said they found the wreck in international waters and claimed salvage rights.
Spain said it had never relinquished ownership of the ship's cargo and the coins were part of the country's national heritage. The origins of contents of a ship may also be disputed.
For example, in the case involving Odyssey and the Mercedes shipwreck, Peru submitted claims to US courts that stated that the origin of the precious cargo was Peru where the coins were mined and minted while it was part of the Spanish empire. Read more from Reality Check.
Send us your questions. Follow us on Twitter. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. So, who has the rights to a shipwreck? Image source, AFP. Four hundred and twenty-five people drowned and thousands of pounds of California gold were lost, contributing to an economic panic. Using sable paintbrushes and a cleaning solution, Evans has been restoring the gold —some of which is completely caked over in black gunk — to its original luster for the past two weeks.
He will continue that work through February, when the treasure will go on public display at the Long Beach Convention Center, just south of Los Angeles.
The gold is all for sale. Meanwhile the deep-sea treasure hunter responsible for finding the gold in the first place continues to sit in an Ohio jail over his handling of the original treasure recovered from the Central America.
A lengthy battle ensued over who owned the gold, with Thompson and his investors eventually emerging as the victors over a group of insurance companies. Investors never saw any of those proceeds.
In , they sued Thompson, who then went into seclusion in Florida and later became a fugitive after an Ohio judge issued a warrant for his arrest in Authorities tracked Thompson to a Florida hotel room in
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