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A federal judge has ordered Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration to give Spanish officials access to the silver coins and other artifacts.
Madrid - Spain will send hulking military transport planes to Florida to retrieve 17 tons of treasure that US undersea explorers found but ultimately lost in American courts.
The Civil Guard said on Monday that agents would leave within hours to take possession of the booty, worth an estimated 380 million euros, and two Spanish Hercules transport planes will bring it back.
A federal judge has ordered Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration to give Spanish officials access to the silver coins and other artefacts beginning Tuesday.
Odyssey found them in a Spanish galleon in 2007 off Portugal. Spain argued successfully in court it never relinquished ownership of the ship or its contents. - Sapa-AP
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Mike Thurgood, wrote
If the US treasure hunters found the Spanish ship off the Portugese coast, they were clearly quite stupid to have failed to inform the Spanish authorities what they were doing. Of course there was nothing but greed in the minds of the US treasure hunters. If they had informed the Spanish authorities, the latter would no doubt have been very happy to collaborate with the US recovery team, who would most likely have received a very good reward from Spain. In the circumstances, they deserve zilch.
Anonymous, wrote
Anonymous, wrote
ok, so let me get this straight. the treasure was taken from the americas, buty actually belong to spain. so if American pirates plunder Spain, but their ships are sunk just of the straights of Gibraltar, the booty belongs to America?
Clyde, wrote
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