I Guess They Chatted Too Much!

[Cacia]

This might make a good movie. They look kind of familiar.....


"Records show that the subject communicated in chat rooms that focused on Islamic coins in order to learn how to restore the coins and to solicit possible buyers"


http://www.cdnn.info/news/industry/i060311.html

report scuba looter now link...yikes

Homeland Security has time for this?

 

[onfloat]

Good!!! I'm glad to see it.

 

[Cacia]

It boggles my mind that Homeland Security has the man hours for this......maybe I am missing something.

I notice they did not name the wreck. I wonder if the Saudi's will "put the coins back".

 

[onfloat]

Probably a by product of looking for terrorists, and other contra-band.

 

[Cacia]

great point. I did not think of that.

 

[RockPile]

This is a good example of the news-end of an interdepartmental "favor." Let’s hope our G-men received in return something worth the time and effort.

You can be sure they weren't helping out because they were bored.

JB

 

[The Horn]

I guess you only get one side of the story and it looks like the US did a fantastic service to the Saudi Government but do you think they even knew about the coins being missing? do they really care?????

The "thieves" probably thought they had found something pretty cool and then thought they could make some cash. Seems like they are just being hung out to dry to make the politics look good.

Report a scuba looter??? what the heck is that!

CDNN's editorial after the story is quite "from the pulpit"

The debate ususally gets pretty heated when talking about "recovering items" from underwater but this scuba looter thing is crazy. I guess all those folks with things in thier possesion they found: from the penny on the street to the china from the Doria should turn themselves in.

 

[onfloat]

Well, after looking at who "wrote" the article I did a little looking. The coins were actually taken 10 years ago.

http://coincollector.org/archives/003163.html

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/060306washington.pdf

http://www.saudiembassy.net/2006News/News/NewsDetail.asp?cIndex=6040


Sounds like the divers that took it, knew they were breaking the law.

Funny though, the pics in the CDNN article were divers that weren't even involved in this event.

 

[JeffG]

Funny though, the pics in the CDNN article were divers that weren't even involved in this event.

Before taking things from CDNN seriously, you might want to read this


http://www.deepimage.co.uk/cdnn.htm

 

[onfloat]

Yeah, I just did. That's why I went and found the other articles.

Before I ended up to deep on 25/25.