Shipwreck treasure returns to Spain from Florida - bad precedent

[jadeblackhawk]

http://news.yahoo.com/shipwreck-treasure-returns-spain-florida-162524873.html

for those of you who were following this.

 

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[Sheldon J]

I wonder if they argued rights too recovery fees? Running a salvage operation like that is very expen$ive, easily running into the millions. I mean they don't actually think that OM does this out of good will do they?

Then there is the fact that Spain in reality stole this silver from Peru hence has no real claim to the treasure.

 

[photo-master]

If it was my company and me bringing the gold up from the sea, I'd keep my mouth shut. --"Hey boys fire up the furnace, we've got gold bars to mint!"

 

[mikusek]

Especially bad when Spain originally STOLE that treasure from the Native Americans. The rightful owners, the descendants of the Western Hemisphere Natives, should be counter suing the descendants of the thieves from Spain.

Spain abandoned that ship many years ago. They gave up any claim they had since they never tried to recover the treasure themselves. Don't tell me the maritime law crap justifies this thievery, because it doesn't, what it does do is allow it to happen. That treasure was doing no one any good where it was and if Spain wanted it, Spain should have recovered it themselves, not wait like lazy socialists and steal it from the people that recovered it honestly by the fruits of their own labor.

 

[seadancer1]

Should have dumped it back into the sea and told them if they wanted it that bad , go fetch it themselves!

 

[seadancer1]

First time I've ever heard of a theif being granted back his stolen goods!

 

[Sheldon J]

If it was my company and me bringing the gold up from the sea, I'd keep my mouth shut. --"Hey boys fire up the furnace, we've got gold bars to mint!"

Intrinsic value often far exceeds actual, and many of the OM operations has a paid on staff Archaeologist at all of their recovery operations, I believe it is some kind of requirement....

Should have dumped it back into the sea and told them if they wanted it that bad , go fetch it themselves!

+1 which is why Spain sent the aircraft to recover rather than letting OM deliver it...

 

[coin_diver]

I'd place odds that out attorney general somehow suggested to the involved judge that "returning" the treasure would set a good precedent with the Spanish. Better to burn our citizens than offend the international community.....
Hope and change

 

[MORE AND BEYOND OSSY]

First time I've ever heard of a theif being granted back his stolen goods!

That"s Interesting seadancer1, We took Australia from the Aboriginal people by force, and we have sent what's left of them up to the cape !
Ossy
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[seadancer1]

That"s Interesting seadancer1, We took Australia from the Aboriginal people by force, and we have sent what's left of them up to the cape !
Ossy
i

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What the indiginous people never ask themselves....." Would we still have Australia to ourselves now...in 2012?"...somehow I dont think so, colonisation was bound to happen sooner or later, and the colonisers may have been a lot more brutal than the English.

 

[bigscoop]

In a word, "politics". I wonder what the secret tradeoff was?

 

[Treasure finder]

Next Spain will claim Florida, then every other place they have been in the Western Hemisphere, including
most of the southern US. Keep your guns oiled and your powder dry, the Spanish are restless.
Rich