Discovered and Undiscovered Beautiful Riches of the Deep

In 1882 The Passenger Cargo Steam Liner “Douro”a lavish plush iron screw steamer was the Trans-Atlantic Lines star carrying passengers and picking up precious cargo along the exotic South American trade between Southampton and Buenos Aires. In march of 1882 the Douro departed Lisbon only to find itself in a destructive collision with the Spanish steamship Yrurac Bat at full speed sinking to the depth of 12,000 feet leaving three hundred and thirty three

passengers in life rafts and fifty nine drowning in the ocean waters. Salvage of the shipwreck started in 1993 to recover the precious cargo as they had found gold coins spread along the ocean floor. The treasure discovered during the salvage consisted of several gold bars and a sizable amount of gold Sovereigns. The treasure coins dated back to the reign of Queen Victoria or the Victorian Era of the United Kingdom from 1837 – 1901 which was a time of prosperity for the British Empire.

In 1744 The “HMS Victory”was the flagship of the Royal Navy captained by Commander Sir John Balchin (Photo above) she encountered a storm dispersing it from the fleet sinking in the English Channel with an estimated undiscovered 100,000 gold coins equaling 4.167 tons. The ship was returning to Lisbon, Portugal The HMS Victory was the largest at 175 ft. long and the most heavily armed vessel of its time carrying 110 brass cannons which only 41 of them have been found including 8 enormous 42 pounders. The cannons lifted had a distinctive decoration of a dolphin

emblem on the upper surface, others had two dolphins with only a few with four dolphins also one cannon that was raised had the monogram Goerge I who ruled from 1714 – 1727. Its only a matter of time before the Team Odyssey salvaging crew discovers the billion dollar treasure.

In 1638 Spanish Galleon The “Nuesra de la Concepcion” encountered bad weather sinking her to the depth of the ocean between Manila in the Philippines and Acapulco spilling chest of precious cargo on the ocean floor. The main reason for the Concepcion sinking was due to mutiny started by the ships officers lacking faith in there young captain wanting to relieve him from his duties a fight broke out without anyone at the ships helm to navigate

the sail buckled backwards snapping the mast and flipping her over into the sea. The loss of the Concepcion was costly to the Spanish crown loosing tens of millions of dollars worth of valuables in today’s market. The excavation of the Concepcion treasures yielded 1,300 pieces of 22.5-karat gold jewelry – chains, crucifixes, beads, buckles, filigree buttons, rings and broaches with precious set stones embedded and a ships time log of the 17Th century jewelry has proved to be made in the Philippines.

In 1846 The Steamship “SS New York”sank off the Louisiana coast from a hail forced storm then discovered and salvaged in 2007 in the Gulf of Mexico. Some of the coins are uncirculated or in mint condition bringing an estimated value of $100,000 a piece at an auction.

In 1715 A Fleet Of Ships Sailed In Route To The Queen of Spain when the fleet sank after encountering a storm. The jewelry aboard of an entire set of 309 emeralds totaling a little over 232 carats with an estimated value of $2 million was discovered by a diver in 1970. The set consisted of a set f emeralds, two rings, a pendant, a necklace and earrings.

In 1857 The Side-Wheel Steamer “S.S. Centeral America” was in route to New York carrying $1.6 million in cargo of two tons of gold dust, nuggets, coins and assayer ingots. The ship sank in a hurricane off the coast of the Carolina’s in 8,000 feet of deep ocean where she lay ed rest for over 100 years before salvage’s discovered the wreckage. In 1865 eight years after the sinking of the S.S. Central America two more ships were taken by violent storms and hurricanes the S.S. Brother Jonathan sank off the coast of Northern California and the S.S. Republic sank off the coast of the Georgia coast both were carrying significant amounts of gold and silver coins. Due to

modern technology and recovery methods salavagers located all three shipwrecks in deep waters recovering thousands of gold coin and silver coins, assayer gold ingots, bars and bricks. The gold was sold off in an auction held in New York with one gold ingot (Bar) selling for $51,750, one gold $20 coin sold for $6,900 and one gold slug valued in 1851 at $50 selling in the auction for $21,850.

Salvage Investors Profit Large

Hundreds of shipwrecks still remain undiscovered in shallow and deep waters holding unseen amounts of treasures that would definitely increase your bank account balance. Many salvage companies seek investors to assist in funding there expeditions for equipment such as sonars, mini subs, deep water electronic equipment and so on… offering investors generous returns on there recovery. The return on the discovery of sunken treasures can be unimaginable in amounts some companies looking for expedition investors are Treasure Salvors Inc., RMS Titanic Inc., Marine Exploration Inc.(MEXP), Deep Blue Marine Inc. and Oddyssey Marine Expedition are just a few of a hand full of companies seeking investors offering returns such as one company paying 35% to investors of the companies salvage. Normally these salvaging companies require a large investment amount although you can find some salvaging companies listed on the stock index where you can buy cheep shares into the comanies expedition such as the Odyssey Marine Expidition stock is going for $3.69 on the NASDAQ and Marine Exploration Inc.

Stock is running for $0.43. These companies stock is a reasonable investment and the return can be even more generous in the long run. The average treasure seeker has also become quite lucky stumbling across major finds on and off shore using land and water metal detectors which can be purchased from the a hundred to thousands of dollars online or at your local sports/outdoors store. Next time you get a chance visit your local museum to view the beauties discovered from the depths of the ocean that men from past times created.