So why hasn’t someone salvaged the gold coins yet? Seems odd, and the article offers no answer.
Colombia has declared it an important cultural heritage site; a limited archeological survey is underway while techniques are developed to allow for the excavation and preservation of the site. (Edit: the first artefacts were recovered a few days ago!). There’s also lots (30+ years) of lawsuits and drama that is too tedious to summarize but everyone sucks (although imo its good that the Colombian government seems to have emerged victorious over SSA, after umpteen years of them being just total dicks to each other. Go check out the wikipedia page, it’s pretty fun.)
As to why it hasn’t been looted, the location has been kept a secret but we can guess it’s down -deep- deep, by the type of UUV (AUV?) used in the discovery. This means that anyone who knows where it is still has to have the resources to actually go down and loot it, and ultra-deep equipment like that is pretty hard to come by.
This guy loots.
I decidedly don’t “loot”, I “acquire”. Usually by having have my ambassador nab things while nobody’s looking. Much more respectable, I’m sure we all agree.
Well, if this is a consular ship, where’s the ambassador??
Yes, your Highness. Will you be needing any further artifacts aquired for safe keeping and preservation?
“Legitimate Salvage”
Can u tell me where I can find some treasures closer to the surface:) ty
Recommend your local library! Treasure abounds there!
Nah I want old antiques and gold
Well we have vintage books and comedy gold…
Thank you for the insight.
It’s 600m below the surface. Humans can only dive to 200m max, so you need submersibles and a huge salvage operation to gather everything.
Sounds like that would cost <17billion though?
Gold dubloons! 800 pieces of eight!!
