Shipwrecks Or Gold Mines? The Race For Lost Treasure | DISPATCH | America Colonial Trade Documentary
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- Faced with an ever-growing demand for precious metals and dwindling extraction sites, the world’s oceans are being seen as a new Eldorado. Thousands of shipwrecks litter the ocean floor with cargoes of these ’precious metals’. With today’s technology, this treasure is in reach.
Underwater archaeology has revealed that 3 million shipwrecks litter the ocean floor, 3,500 of which sunk with cargoes of gold, silver and porcelain onboard. Billions of dollars worth of this material, just sitting there, at the bottom of the sea. With today’s technology, this gold is in reach.
But how can this sunken treasure be recovered? And who has the right to do so? The nation whose territorial waters host the wreck? The country plundered years ago for its resources? Or indeed humanity, as advertised by UNESCO? Between diplomatic battles and great buccaneers, this international investigation uncovers a new gold rush.
This documentary was first released in 2019.
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I've lived in the kingdom of Tonga ( south pacific ) for over 10 years, locals did recover tons of gold from the sunken Spanish galleons, which were heading back to Spain loaded with looted gold ( Incan Gold artifacts) via the pacific ocean rout, due to bad weather some of those ships sunk, some in very deep waters and some in shallow depths, there is a popular story amongst Tongans about the gold and who acquired it and what happened to it and where it ended up, very interesting story. I know the person ( Ex New Zealand police detective named Josh Laiava'a ) who was going to publish the book about Tongan Gold loot with names of the people whom were involved in transporting tons of golden artifacts from Tonga to Japan on an Arab billionaire's private jet.... Mr, J Laiava'a was murdered in Hawaii 2018 while on a visit to the USA to meet some relatives RIP Josh, what a great man he was .....
There's a movie script?
@@williamrae9954 Where ??, I have more details regarding the Tongan Gold, cause Mr, Laiva'a trusted me with more details, regarding who took possession of the gold and where it ended up, and how Tongans got cheated of Billions of dollars, cheers
Welcome to civilisation.
I think finders keepers, if they want to preserve it and make a museum thats their choice, not some group of people too lazy to put the work in
Given we don't have the story with how exactly the legalities paid out, The ppl who found it should be compensated. That was a huge time and money investment by odyssey. If not it should've been just returned where they found it. Then let Portugal spend years of time and millions of dollars recovering it. All while protecting it from other hunters.
Absolutely FINDERS KEEPERS.
arrrrr 💀
So 600,000 coins are in the museum. Show them or share them. All the coins should be displayed to the public or those in storage should be sold to the public (in limited quantities). If they are really part of the country’s heritage they should shared with the country’s people.
Or they should be given back to the discovers for all their efforts!
When they are not displaying it, those countries will steal it from their people!!!! That's how fraud is started!!
Why is it not returned to the country they stole it from? This is something I’ve considered. Anyone know why it’s not returned?
Finders keepers.
now, spain has stole this treasure twice.
I agree! Spain has stolen this twice!
"heritage" no one gives a crap about old ship wrecks until they contain something of value.
As someone going for a degree in history and archaeology, I very much care about shipwrecks even if there’s nothing of value in them the wreck itself tells us so much about human history
Well if your collective Heritage was important to your country, Your government should have put up the Millions of $, thousands of man hours to find and recover it...
10% for the big guy…. There’s always a big guy…. Taking his % by force..
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Fascinating topic...
Where did the explorers get the treasure and how did they obtain it. Wasn't most of it stolen from others. Shouldn't that be a large part of the equation,not just position is nine tenths of the law.
Spanish Needles found most of the sunken treasures, so does the original finder and developer have more rights than those who find the sunken treasure ?
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No ones going to fund these recoveries if there is no benefit, the "treasures" are going to just sit there and get covered and never be found
Check back in 10 years to determine if the 600,000 pieces of "heritage" are still there.
Let collectors throughout the world buy these excess artifacts, the more geographically dispersed they are, the more likely that no matter what, some will survive. They are what they are, wherever they are in the world.
IF you want to get technical the entire shipwreck is in a foreign environment. The ship and the treasure dont belong underwater at all. How is their heritage worth anything on the bottom of the ocean?
I totally agree! They say it shall be left alone as a watery grave! Yet find an older wreck, and it's a treasure, archeological or otherwise. I know of lots of ship wrecks, and none of them are considered off limits as graves. Yet some of them are grave markers for sure.
The Colombian government didn’t find that wreck in 2015. I met the guy that discovered it back in 1995. He was looking for investors to raise it. He had been detained and interrogated by Colombian authorities but he would not tell them the location.
Finders keepers. If the government cared, theyd go find it themselves.
I heard of a boy and his friends found a large bail of ancient Chinese porcelain in perfectly good condition on the beach in Australia, they broke them all, not knowing it was anything of value!
So anything that sinks in the ocean should just stay there or go in a museum? Ridiculous.
I just see a bunch of rich people figuring out who will display 1/10th in a museum and get richer off the rest.
Exactly! While they rip off the company that found it and brought it up!
I don't know how Spain could claim a ship because it belongs to them and get the treasure back when the treasure that was on the ship was stolen in the first place
The spanish steal the gold, they lost it , but smb decide the gold still belong to them????
if any given country discovers a wreck within it's territory, that ship is the property of that given country. period. they can do with it whatever they please. it would be great if they documented everything professionally, but that cost's time and money. I say grab it while you can...Human's are all about Greed..why should this be any different
Columbus lost a treasure??? That's not what I was taught in school....
Sooner or later advanced technology will allow pirates to strip the oceans floors of all valuables regardless of the depths!!
What BS-ego and envy, because these treasure gatherers have the tech to do what country's governments can not!
Finders keepers! You cant lay claim to something you dont possess, only when its in your possession, do you have a "say" in the matter!
Where there is big money...there is big corruption
Always.
It’s wrong what the people did it finders keepers and you know just a sad situation. Somebody throwing their shit around to take something from someone else, so yeah I appreciate you showing it. I went ahead and turned it off and disgusted me.
Finders keepers
If it’s in private hands it’s not going to be melted! People will pass on the treasure to their kids! It will always be preserved in privat hands but you give it to a government they will spend it!
She said she hasn’t seen a Good case of a Treasure Hunter . YET you dont look for Treasure and if it wasn’t for the Hunters they would never of found it, International Water,s stay International Waters, They keep what they find, If they find Treasures in Owned waters then do a deal with them . STOP treating them as criminals. Without them you still have nothing, They spend a great deal of time and money looking for Shipwrecks so Take into consideration this fact, I say Licensing Them is a good option, Permit them to explore Pay them to explore. Get a Good relationship going. But No you arrest them take them to court . No Wonder they keep the treasure to themselves…
Daidavies , you are not alone ! Can't eat gold. David in Hebrew means Beloved one. ?. Regards kiddo. Dave
I’m fairly certain that Kiefer Sutherland is narrating this 😂
What a load of crap , it was lost .
If these countries wanted this treasure, they would find a way to retrevive it!! If somebody else finds it well, its their's and the country claiming it can go pound sand!! I would throw it all overboard and tell them to go get it!!
If that was full of jello cups they wouldn’t care and I guarantee it’s all been melted down into bars except what’s on display
Here's the bottom line. Greed is going to win every time. No one gives a shit about a ship that's at the bottom of the sea. Why does a ship need to be historically preserved only because it's cargo has a monetary value?
All those governments say very important for us, our heritage (like the Portuguese or Spanish). if its so important why they don't spend money to find those ships.
its important only when someone else finds them. those people spend years to find them, millions and than the Portuguese come saying its our. If is their ship why they not look for that ship. why they don't look for all their ships that sunk ? they know what ships they lost in the past. they should look for those ships and than say that the ship is theirs. or atleast they should share the find with those who find it.
"Columbus' lost treasure"? Perhaps a few good or silver Spanish coins. But a sizable treasure? No! He had to beg money for his ships and crew. And what he received could only hire some basic, half-time small ships with basic pro isions. One of the ships so cotton it had to turn bsck! Good luck with your hunt, but do not go into debt to do so. There will not be a big pay day in any case!
I think they would know how many pr year. What is this video supposed to be about?
So your title shot was. Not photoshopped ?
44:09 Indania Jones, the famous exploiter of artifacts.
The poor fishermen who recover the artifacts becomes an instant looter/criminal while big corporations who bags millions are not…funny isn’t it?
If governments want treasure back from their wreck, i would say that should be written as a law...
If there is no law then its finders keepers...
They can't just come after its found and say its a heritage and theirs, its just laughable
Piss On the UN!!!
Archimidies , bastard friend !. D.
You’ll have to get through Gods daughter first…
Anyone else realize that this documentary is entirely just every 20 minutes they say do you know how much wealth is in the bottom of the ocean and then they pretend to do some shitty Marathon County bunch of ships wait another 20 minutes and then they’re like hey, do you know how much wealth is on the bottom of the ocean? You guys haven’t told me anything of value 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ban bottom trawling,but Man has become weak and spineless and gets scared of these fishing groups.UNESCO is toothĺess to combat this destruction of the seabed.
A lot of stupidity, now all the treasure companies are gonna do r just melt the metals n now you not gonna know anything and there still gonna have there profit better to know what they find then to force there hand into doing other things, I mean you want all this say on things there putting in the work to do sounds crazy go get it yourself finders keepers should apply if it was so important you would have gotten it yourself no one thinking about it until they find it
Canadians do not own the North West Passage as NATO decides it is International Waters so it really does not matter what Canada thinks, it is what the World Council says about it that counts. So Canada should realize the truth and just get over it. This is kinda like when the World Council decided to create Israel after world war ll, it did not and does not matter when the World Council decides on something, then that is the way it is.
Reupload
Doubloon standards
Any Gun can Play is my motto, hee,hee
Shows just how greed is all to man...I'm still waiting for the mention that not only treasure they are maritime graves they are desicrating
P.s how many KIA, Lost at sea and captain's went down with the booty?
What’s funny is the real reason why people are looking for these shipwrecks? Is the pre-nuclear use metal that’s on them that’s why I Chyna searching for them. That’s why we’re searching for them. The gold on it is negligible as in how much it’s worth it’s worth nothing. Who cares. But that metal though…. 💰
You don't know much do you ?
@@Thelostgoldhunters More than you apparently.
those coins are looted by spanish in latin america.
It were coins minted in some Spanish provinces in America and sent to other Spanish provinces on the peninsula. Spain was only making a transfer between its own accounts. Where is the theft?
Too much stupid dramatic mood music. 15 mins in and they just keep repeating the same shit.
Greedy scavengers