ShipwreckHunter
Jr. Member
- May 15, 2015
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- 137
- Detector(s) used
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Garrett Master Hunter
GTI 2500
Infinium LS
Sea Hunter II
Pro-Pointer AT
- Primary Interest:
- Shipwrecks
The search for the £1.9bn Atlantic treasure lost at sea - which may not actually exist ...
Early in 2012, a former swimming pool installer turned treasure hunter called Greg Brooks made global headlines when he announced the discovery of the SS Port Nicholson — a British freighter sunk off America in 1942, thought to be carrying £1.9bn of Russian platinum to pay for weaponry to help an increasingly desperate Stalin defeat Hitler.
Even by the swashbuckling standards of hunts for unusual shipwrecks, it was a compelling tale. The smoke-belching British vessel had left the Arctic port of Murmansk in the summer 1942 secretly laden with 71 tons of precious metal, safeguarded by two Soviet special envoys, before it was holed by two torpedoes fired by a Nazi U-boat and sank in 700 ft. of water off the Massachusetts coast. The two Russians escorting the consignment survived the sinking but disappeared without trace.... The search for the £1.9bn Atlantic treasure lost at sea - which may not actually exist - Home News - UK - The Independent
Early in 2012, a former swimming pool installer turned treasure hunter called Greg Brooks made global headlines when he announced the discovery of the SS Port Nicholson — a British freighter sunk off America in 1942, thought to be carrying £1.9bn of Russian platinum to pay for weaponry to help an increasingly desperate Stalin defeat Hitler.
Even by the swashbuckling standards of hunts for unusual shipwrecks, it was a compelling tale. The smoke-belching British vessel had left the Arctic port of Murmansk in the summer 1942 secretly laden with 71 tons of precious metal, safeguarded by two Soviet special envoys, before it was holed by two torpedoes fired by a Nazi U-boat and sank in 700 ft. of water off the Massachusetts coast. The two Russians escorting the consignment survived the sinking but disappeared without trace.... The search for the £1.9bn Atlantic treasure lost at sea - which may not actually exist - Home News - UK - The Independent
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