Shipwrecked Treasure Allegedly Found Via Google Maps
Treasure hunter Nathan Smith testifies that he used Google maps to find buried treasure in South Texas. Smith also monitored the treasures location with updated satellite images to ensure that no one was poking around long enough to gain legal rights to his findings.
The 39-year-old musician from Los Angeles located a 19h century boat, which has a supposed cargo of gold and silver off the Texas Gulf coast. Smith is attempting to gain rights to dig at the location where he believes the missing ship is. He believes this to be the location because of written accounts found on Google and the readings of gold and silver from metal detectors at the site.
Refugio County estate is making claim to owning the land and wants Smith to stop excavating immediately. He is currently looking for investors to take part in the dig. The treasure Smith estimates to be about $3 billion in all.
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Jaclyn on January 9th, 2009 12:51 pm
That is very interesting. however, it’s hard to believe that this ship has been there for however long and no one has attempted to find it…with all the treasure hunters that are out there. plus, i would be leary about doing all that research and digging to get to the ship and face the possiblity that someone lays claim to it that has had a claim/search on it since it was lost in the first place.
home based business on January 10th, 2009 1:59 pm
Reminds me of the spanish ship, I think the atoshsa it got a museum down in key west fla.
I hope he gets to keep it.
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