$2million looted gold in Lake Michigan shipwreck

[John Winter]

Treasure hunters believe they have found $2million worth of gold stolen from the Confederates after the Civil War in a Lake Michigan Shipwreck.

Treasure hunters say they have found Confederate gold in Lake Michigan shipwreck | Daily Mail Online

 

[Salvor6]

Confusing story. First they say the gold was in a boxcar. A boxcar obviously would not fit on a 70' tugboat. Next they say the gold was in a safe on the tug. Also the side scan image looks nothing like the picture of the 70' tug.

A couple more things: first of all they DID NOT FIND ANY GOLD. They found a shipwreck.
Second: anything they find, the state of Michigan claims everything in their waters as state property.

 

[Cash]

Several years ago some Michigan NAS Students used this as one of their final exams they were from what I recall using Sector Side Scan or trying to or believed they could find the box car.... then again its happy hour here and my memory is hmmmm

 

[CaptEsteban]

I doubt much of the story, too, but a " narrow gage " railroad boxcar was only 24ft in length.

 

[Galleon Hunter]

100% "pie in the sky." I have dove that wreck, it is the Jane, lost around 1927. The "safe" is a ship's stove. I hate to burst their bubble, but the only thing they are going to find in it is a pile of soggy ashes.

 

[LM]

The media needs to do a better job at not printing any idiot who makes unsubstantiated claims about treasure.