ivan salis said:greed is the answer to how do folks at high levels get wound up in this mess -- the folks that found the stones took some to "prove" what they found was "real" to the folks that can fund and "arrange" for the legal paperwork so ithe treasure can be "legally" recovered and money made from it -- of course all means of making "money from treasure " is subject to grubbermmint control and taxation --try to earn money without the grubbermint and the powers that be (politicans) getting a cut of it and you'll wind up behind bars --count on it --gotta peice off the politicans one way or another --sometimes both ways --bribes (to get to do it - to get the permits) and then you gotta pay taxes as well for doing it and earning any "income" from doing it.
ivan salis said:greed is the answer to how do folks at high levels get wound up in this mess -- the folks that found the stones took some to "prove" what they found was "real" to the folks that can fund and "arrange" for the legal paperwork so ithe treasure can be "legally" recovered and money made from it -- of course all means of making "money from treasure " is subject to grubbermmint control and taxation --try to earn money without the grubbermint and the powers that be (politicans) getting a cut of it and you'll wind up behind bars --count on it --gotta peice off the politicans one way or another --sometimes both ways --bribes (to get to do it - to get the permits) and then you gotta pay taxes as well for doing it and earning any "income" from doing it.
ivan salis said:bob marx is getting a bit salty in his later years -- bet in his younger money hungry "need working capital years" his advice would have been "invest that treasure hunting money with my group that I'm working with " funny how time changes ones point of veiw.
FISHEYE said:Having a bunch of nekid chicks on your boat is a old smugglers trick.The marine patrol and CG wont mess with you thinking you are just out boating for pleasure.
ropesfish said:I am so very unfamiliar with emeralds, I thought they were all worth something. What is a worthless emerald?