Tommy Thompson, now 72, has refused for a decade to tell anyone, including his own lawyers, where the treasure from a ...

Nevertheless, it wasn’t until almost a week into the excavation of the ship that a treasure chest packed with gold was found.

Archaeologists had been puzzled by the huge quantity of Spanish coins found among the wreckage—about 70 percent of the gold pieces were excelentes, unexpected for a Portuguese ship. "This letter ...

A treasure hunter is accused of selling eight of 50 rare gold coins — worth over $1 million — found in a 2015 dive on the famous 1715 Fleet of Spanish ships that wrecked off the Treasure Coast ...

For nearly a decade, Brent Brisben believed a treasure hunting family he hired to salvage the famous 1715 Fleet shipwrecks had been wildly ... Richard “Rick” Schmitt - found the coins and 40 feet of ...

It is not clear how much gold might remain. The ship was carrying gold bars shipped by banks and commercial interests. Passengers were thought to be carrying a lot of gold of their own in the form ...

The San Jose was a marvel of 17th century technology. The Spanish galleon weighed more than a thousand tons, was made of wood ...

which were minted from gold bars found in the ship's wreckage. On Friday, Marbley said there was no point in keeping Thompson locked up because, after 10 years, he still refuses to cooperate. " ...

The cargo ship, which wrecked in 1857, had been carrying a load of gold. The Dispatch Printing Company ... according to court records. He was found guilty of criminal contempt for this. In 2015, ...