Treasure ManMay 21st, 2007 - 17:05:36

Spain claims that gold on the bottom of the sea that they didn't find belongs to them. Did a government minister really say this with a straing face? Truth is stranger than fiction again.

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Basic maritime law in one sentence:May 21st, 2007 - 17:48:31

Finders keepers losers weepers.

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Crooks and liarsMay 21st, 2007 - 19:38:56

American Crooks and Liars
1)Iraqs oil
2)Spanish treasure
What next?

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Sour grapes.May 22nd, 2007 - 04:43:31

More power to the treasure hunters. Forgotten or lost, then found and recovered through hard work and huge financial risk. Naysayers are all, and will always be...losers...trying to rain on others parades. Ignore them.

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Regalnon SenseMay 22nd, 2007 - 07:07:04

Why is it always the US who believe they can ignore international laws?

If a small Middle-Eastern state had found the treasure, the US would have bombed them to get it back (no matter who it belonged to).

Lets get this out in the open and give ownership to whoever is legally right.

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Scared EuropeanMay 22nd, 2007 - 08:58:15

I'm a European trying to find news things to blame the United States for. I don't know where the treasure in question is, but I'll post something saying the United States is breaking international law. Even though this is a private company and I have no idea who even owns the company or works for it. Heck it could Europeans working for an American company. I don't know and I don't care. Just bash America, that's my mission. Didn't the United States cause the Holocaust? Didn't the United States crucify Christ? Oops, the United States didn't even exist when Christ was crucified. I'll find some way around the facts to bash America. I'll ignore the fact that Spain doesn't even know where the wreck is and claims it. That's not important at all. Let just fabricate, obfuscate, and bash away.

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United StatesJun 1st, 2007 - 15:37:38

That's because just like any other world power in history, we want to rule the World! Good thing its still called International waters and not German waters..you bunch of ungratefuls! Jealousy solves nothing!

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These comments are GREAT!!Oct 18th, 2007 - 11:45:44

I haven't laughed this hard since the last episode of The Office. :-)
No matter what country you claim to be it's all about big corporations. It's sad we have found such a new form of discrimination that it has taken the heat of the evil corportions that own each of us.
Keep laughing, it makes life more fun.

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OgreMay 19th, 2008 - 12:32:23

Cripes... the Spanish lawyers are trying to compare this to robbing graves at the battlefields of Gettysburg or the USS Arizona. 1. Neither are outside the limits of national interest (I.E. International Waters), 2. Neither are covered under the rules of salvage which apply to ships lost at SEA (not to land based battlefields or ships lost at port and declared a monument by the Fed Govt.).
Let's see...where did this gold and silver come from??? Mostly Peru apparently. Maybe Peru should get in on this case and claim the gold and silver stolen from their natives by Spanish conquistadors?
As to the America bashing. Up yours. Next time Germany invades your country maybe we won't be there. Jerks.

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