Odyssey Marine Exploration News

Past Bank, Insurer Battles Don’t Deter Treasure Hunter’s Return to Shipwreck

Treasure-hunter Bob Evans has spent half his life dreaming about the SS Central America, a pre-Civil War steamship decaying in the lightless depths off South Carolina. Now he’s returning to the shipwreck after 23 years. Evans, 60, set out this …

Florida Firm to Appeal in Bid for Sunken Spanish Treasure

U.S. deep-sea explorers must turn over to the Spanish government 17 tons of silver coins and other treasure recovered from a sunken Spanish galleon in 2007, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. But Tampa, Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration has vowed …