One of the Joys of Diving

[GA Under Water]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/21/shipwreck.treasure.ap/index.html


MAN, that would be nice to find on a personal dive trip. $500 Million in coin. Of course finding a loophole to allow you to lay full claim to it would be the better find.

 

[mello-yellow]

Greatest luck of that sort I ever read of actually ON a personal dive trip was four or five years ago. A high school biology teacher in Florida was collecting snails for class dissection, and inside one found a 56 carat emerald. He was diving at a known location of a sunken Spanish galleon, but it was assumed to have been stripped clean decades ago.

 

[UnderwaterMacamba]

Hey, I found a mask and two snorkels last weekend. It's a start!

 

[Mthelming]

Of course finding a loophole to allow you to lay full claim to it would be the better find.

I would be quite happy with a fraction of the $500 million!!!!

 

[Steve_Dives]

I would just like to dive with a salvage operation (preferably in warm, clear, shallow water ) to have the experience of unearthing something and bringing it up. The search experience and techniques would just be fun.