Odyssey Marine confirm site of shipwreck containing 200 tonnes of silver 300 miles off Irish coast

As the BBC report, the US company Odyssey Marine Exploration have confirmed “the identity and location of the shipwreck site of the SS Gairsoppa nearly 4,700 meters below the surface of the North Atlantic, approximately 300 miles off the coast of Ireland in international waters.” And if the historical records and research are correct, the wreck contains 7 million total ounces [200 tonnes] of silver.  Worth £600,000 when the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sank in 1941, the silver hoard is …

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