Oprah show about the 350mill salvage recovery??

[Divingdiva]

Anyone heard about this story?

 

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Agony and Death on a Gold Rush Steamer: The Disastrous Sinking of the Side-Wheeler Yankee Blade - Grab it through Amazon!

[diggummup]

No I haven't,did you see the episode or is it something you "heard"?Explain please

 

[Jamie]

ss central america

The group that was able to salvage the gold from the SS plans on searching for a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea that lost about twice as much gold as the SS did !!

 

[Jamie]

theres a book on it i think called "ship of gold" Look on amazon.com

 

[Boardwalker]

Actually the book about the sinking in 1857 of the SS Central America is called " Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea" by Gary Kinder. The recovery 131 years later by Tommy Thompson and his salvage crew in 1988 was worth about $1 billion, and they had only recovered about 60% of the gold that was estimated to be aboard. The find was worth much more than just the value of gold because of the association of the coins and ingots with the California gold rush 1849 to 1855. Interesting coincidence that the first gold was brought up by their recovery vehicle "Nemo" on Sept 11, the very day that the ship first took on water in the hurricane off the Carolinas.

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

$1B. I cant count that many zeroes!!!

 

[WhiteLightning]

What a great story...

 

[alabamadan]

$1B.? I cant count that many zeroes!!!

Nine.

$1,000,000,000

 

[Parangjim]

And that's why I dream about the Cherokee cave in Georgia with its reputed 27 followed by nine zeros!
jim