Any Word On The Shipwreck Find?

I've been following this story for a while...spot-checking Odyssey's website, etc.

I don't think there's anything that you don't already know.

Odyssey removed 17 tons of mostly silver (and some gold) coins
from a site they are calling the Black Swan Project and moved them into the United States.

Apparently the Spanish government is concerned about the nationality of the shipwreck, because on at least one occasion the Spanish Coast Guard interdicted an Odyssey ship at sea and forced it into port to be searched.

Odyssey confirms that the wreck is NOT the HMS Sussex.
They won't confirm or deny whether or not it is the Merchant Royal.

Steve

P.S. In case you don't read forum members' profiles, just wanted to let you know that during Vietnam I was a rigger with Eighty Deuce.
Great to have an Airborne brother on board!
Thank you for your service!

A little more info:

The Merchant Royal was a 17th century English merchant ship lost at sea off Land's End, Cornwall in rough weather on 23 September 1641. On board were at least 100,000 pounds of gold (nearly one billion USD in today's money), 400 bars of Mexican silver (another 1 million) and nearly 500,000 pieces of eight and other coins, making it one of the most valuable wrecks of all time.

If Black Swan Project is indeed the Merchant Royal then I don't see the "colonial coins" connection unless they are referring to the Spanish silver coins.

My eyebrows are going up at that amount of weight on board one
17th century ship.

That's 50 tons of gold and what sounds like at least 10-15 tons of silver coin.

Unless maybe that "100,000 pounds" is referring to English monetary units instead of weight.

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