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发帖数: 1846 | 1 An American company has made what is being called the heaviest and deepest
recovery of precious metals from a shipwreck.
The Tampa, Fla.-based Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. announced Wednesday
that it had recovered 48 tons of silver bullion from the SS Gairsoppa, a
sunken British cargo ship in three miles of water off the coast of Ireland.
Between the Gairsoppa, torpedoed by a German U-boat during World War II, and
the SS Mantola, sunk by a German submarine during World War I, Odyssey said
in a press release that about 240 tons of silver may be recovered by the
end of the operation.
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The recovery is being made under a contract awarded by the U.K. government,
which will keep 20 percent of the cargo's value, estimated to be in the tens
of millions of dollars. The Gairsoppa became U.K. property after the
government paid the owners of the ship an insurance sum of |
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