Comments on: Spain claims all treasure from The Black Swan

By: charles slakan

charles slakan — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:17:03 +0000

I am starting to lose faith in our court system.
How can Spain claim treasure found in International waters.
And how can Spain claim gold that they stole from the Incans to begin with or the Aztec.
It is documented how much gold was stolen by Spain and there isn’t a number available for its worth.

How is it, that we can let gambling boats out 5 or 6 miles in International waters where our laws have no bearing, but Spain can claim that somehow they own international waters and something that has been lying on the ocean floor for at least 500 years?
It’s insane.

They would never get one coin from me!

Justice would have been to send the gold back from where it came and where it was stolen from, Peru.

By: Alfonso (from Valladolid , birthplace of Pfilip the second)

Alfonso (from Valladolid , birthplace of Pfilip the second) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:20:40 +0000

Me alegro mucho de que nuestro tesoro , acuñado con el escudo de Castilla , lugar donde vivo , vuelva de nuevo a España. Posiblemente debamos de estar agradecidos a la empresa Odissey , sin embargo , estas monedas son ptrimonio de los españoles y deben de estar en alguno de nuestros muchos museos , pese a quien pese. Saludos desde España

By: stevenbb

stevenbb — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:52:05 +0000

Give me a good reason Odyssy Marine should not just dump the coins right back on the black swan and tell Spain “No problem, we put your coins back…” Hey, they have NO CONTRACT with the Spanish government to reveal the wreck location, just restore the coins back to their original location.

By: Nexus

Nexus — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:02:37 +0000

You have got a garden in front of home. Your father lost a wallet with coins into it. Years later a gardener find the wallet. Who is the owner?

By: mike

mike — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:50:36 +0000

Nobody stole anything, according to international law, that wreck site was in open and international waters. Nobody knows what ship this is and regardless of where the ship originated, Odyssey found, and recovered the coins. They invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to recover said coins and made a LEGAL CLAIM to the wreck in court which was granted. You act like these guys went into Spain and stole money at gunpoint. These coins were on the bottom of the ocean for hundreds of years, nobody missed them or looked for them until these guys came along. Now its all about the money and spain is being greedy. You obviously comment without having any understanding of salvage law. I work with a guy that was on this crew. He lost his job because spain is tying this up in court for so long. Now he is out of a job that he loved and had to switch to the oil industry to pay the bills. GIVE ODYSSEY THE COINS! THEY FOUND THEM AND EARNED THEM. To hell with spain!