Pretty bias writing.
Here's the Cliff notes;
Meide—led a
six-week expedition sponsored
**(tax dollars)** by the state and federal governments in 2014 to try
**( Do or do not, there is no try, Yoda)**to find La Trinité.
In May 2016, a salvor named Bobby Pritchett, president of Global Marine Exploration (GME) in Tampa, Florida, announced that he had discovered scattered remains of a ship buried a kilometer off Cape Canaveral.
Over the prior three years, he and his crew had obtained 14 state permits to survey and dive a nearly 260-square-kilometer area off the cape;
they did so around 250 days each year, backed by
investor funds of, he claims, US $4-million. -** NOT tax dollars
In 1961, a treasure hunter named Kip Wagner and his crew found and recovered about 4,000 silver coins from the treasure coast. They formed a team, called Real Eight, and ultimately salvaged over $6-million in coins and artifacts from the 1715 Spanish fleet.
The collection was impressive enough to grace the January 1965 issue of National Geographic.
And those same sites through continued
contributions from the private sector salvage community has provided the citizens of the State of Florida the greatest collection of historical colonial American shipwreck artifacts the world has ever seen. Some can be seen on the display at the State Museum in Tallahassee Florida, some have been lost and or
while in the custodianship of the State.
"Back then, there was no animosity between archaeologists and treasure hunters, who often worked side by side."
Well, that's just total BS and just another point of how poor the writer's research was for the article, SMH!
Meide’s first reaction when he heard La Trinité had likely been discovered was joy, but his second reaction was horror. “The worst thing that could happen to a shipwreck is to be found by a treasure hunter. Better that it not be found at all,” he says,...
He wouldn't have a job if it wasn't for treasure hunters....
