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Explorers raise the bar — 1,574 silver ones — in WW II shipwreck (W/Video)

July 21, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Featured image: Silver bullion bar 1000 oz top view. CREDIT: Unit 5 SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons. ( This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license).

From New York Daily News BY  SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2013, 5:54 AM

Odyssey Marine Exploration just finished a record-setting recovery effort in the North Atlantic, pulling 1,574 silver ingots from the wreck of merchant ship SS Gairsoppa three miles below the choppy seas. The total value is expected to rise more than $35 million.

The mournful tale of the SS Gairsoppa stood unchanged for seven decades — sunk by a German U-boat, 84 people killed, its fortune in silver bars forever lost to the Atlantic Ocean.

There’s a new ending now — with a twist long considered impossible. . . . Read Complete Report.

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From youtube uploaded by Russ Balbirona on Sep 27, 2011

RETRO:  SS Gairsoppa WWII Ship Sunk By German Submarine Odyssey Marine Found The Silver Treasure

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Odyssey Announces First Load of Silver Cargo from 3 Miles Deep (w/video)

July 25, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

The first Report into our new Archive category, Treasure Chest. We Hope you enjoy our postings in this new Department. . . . EDITOR

from Coin week

By  on July 23, 2012 7:42 AM

SS Gairsoppa Operation Results in Deepest, Largest Precious Metal Recovery**

Odyssey Marine Exploration (NasdaqCM: OMEX), pioneers in the field of deep-ocean exploration, today announced it has successfully recovered approximately 48 tons of silver bullion from a depth of approximately three miles. This initial recovery of bullion from the SS Gairsoppa, a 412-foot steel-hulled British cargo ship that sank in February 1941, totals 1,203 silver bars or approximately 1.4 million troy ounces of silver and has been transported to a secure facility in the United Kingdom. After unloading the cargo, taking on fuel and changing personnel, recovery operations will continue and are expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2012. This record-breaking operation has so far produced the heaviest and deepest recovery of precious metals from a shipwreck. . . . Read Complete Report

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48 Tons of Silver Recovered From World War II Shipwreck

Published on Jul 20, 2012 by 

An American company has made what is being called the heaviest and deepest recovery of precious metals from a shipwreck. . .. Continue youtube discription

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