http://www.theworld.org/2012/02/spanish-sunken-treasure/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spanish-sunken-treasure Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.theworld.org/2012/02/spanish-sunken-treasure/comment-page-1/#comment-23629 coalbanks Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:06:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=108230#comment-23629 Salvage rights do not include military vessels. Salvage rights do not include military vessels.

]]> http://www.theworld.org/2012/02/spanish-sunken-treasure/comment-page-1/#comment-23628 Anonymous Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:58:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=108230#comment-23628 Salvage rights like privacy and personal rights are being eroded by the money machines which influence most everything today; IMHO. Salvage rights like privacy and personal rights are being eroded by the money machines which influence most everything today; IMHO.

]]> http://www.theworld.org/2012/02/spanish-sunken-treasure/comment-page-1/#comment-23616 BubbaAl Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:30:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=108230#comment-23616 Salvage rights apparently don't apply to military vessels.  What I can't fathom is how Spain could decide to turn around and sue Odyssey -- the very company that saved it's treasures at a cost of nearly half a million (which it can't recoup, as it's case was tossed).  Since the coins can't be insured or sold, I believe that the prediction of Melinda MacConnel, President of Odyssey is correct: “anything found with a potential Spanish interest will be hidden or even worse, melted down or sold on eBay.” Salvage rights apparently don’t apply to military vessels.  What I can’t fathom is how Spain could decide to turn around and sue Odyssey — the very company that saved it’s treasures at a cost of nearly half a million (which it can’t recoup, as it’s case was tossed).  Since the coins can’t be insured or sold, I believe that the prediction of Melinda MacConnel, President of Odyssey is correct: “anything found with a potential Spanish interest will be hidden or even worse, melted down or sold on eBay.”

]]> http://www.theworld.org/2012/02/spanish-sunken-treasure/comment-page-1/#comment-23607 Philip McCleary Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:05:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=108230#comment-23607 Let me get this right. A ship sunk to the bottom of the ocean and was lost to all for hundreds of years. A great company Odyssey Marine Exploration comes along and recovers it at great expense and then is ordered by a court to turn it over to someone that did not even know they had it. If I was that company I would in the future recover what I could find refuse to disclose where I recovered it from and destroy all evidence of the name of the ship and keep what I found. What ever happened to salvage rights?   Let me get this right. A ship sunk to the bottom of the ocean and was lost to all for hundreds of years. A great company Odyssey Marine Exploration comes along and recovers it at great expense and then is ordered by a court to turn it over to someone that did not even know they had it. If I was that company I would in the future recover what I could find refuse to disclose where I recovered it from and destroy all evidence of the name of the ship and keep what
I found. What ever happened to salvage rights?  

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