Treasure Hunter will be fined $1,000 a day until he givs up coins...

ARC · Dec 16, 2015

And he was sentenced to 2 years.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/p...e-hunter-fugitive-hearing-20151215-story.html

patiodadio · Dec 16, 2015

Its like we have seen many times before, the Pirates wear 3 piece suits instead of eye patches and peg legs and have paper work instead of swords and cannons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Central_America

Rick K · Dec 16, 2015

From everything I have read, the guy is a crook. He defrauded his fellow investors. Save your tears, he's not worth it.

This is not a case of public authorities demanding the salvors turn over the recovered goods. It is a civil dispute between the partners and the insurors who paid claims for the original loss.

Bquamb · Dec 16, 2015

That was a neat little read - did some digging on the early pioneer coins... HOLY COW! So F'Ing cool! ! !
Some of the designs are out of this world neat, simply for the year (And being struck on gold kind of helps)
Thanks =)

Treasure_Hunter · Dec 16, 2015

"Treasure Hunter will be fined $1,000 a day "... I'm not paying... :laughing7:

releventchair · Dec 16, 2015

Treasure_Hunter said:
"Treasure Hunter will be fined $1,000 a day "... I'm not paying...

With interest!

stefen · Dec 16, 2015

Not interested...

fever87 · Dec 17, 2015

The book about his discovery, Ship of Gold, was a great read.

UnderMiner · Dec 17, 2015

patiodadio said:
Its like we have seen many times before, the Pirates wear 3 piece suits instead of eye patches and peg legs and have paper work instead of swords and cannons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Central_America

Thompson's a crook, he took other people's money to finance his treasure hunting expedition but when he found the treasure he never paid the investors back their money or gave them any percentage of the treasure that they had financed him to recover. This is behavior akin to a very dishonorable pirate from the early 18th century, not a treasure hunter from the 21st. Mel Fisher in contrast for example took investments from people, used their money to find the treasure, and when he found it he paid them back and gave them their percentage. Thompson could have easily done what Mel Fisher did but instead he took the treasure and ran.