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2007-10-18 Europe

U.S. Treasure Hunter Freed in Spain Spat

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Posted by Steve White 2007-10-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 If the Spanish govt is so jazzed up about it, then they can get the treasure themselves. No action at all for the last couple of centuries, though.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-10-18 00:45|| 2007-10-18 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 AP - why would they do that, when it's so much easier to just ~~steal~~ confiscate it from those who found it?

Posted by PBMcL 2007-10-18 00:52|| 2007-10-18 00:52|| Front Page Top

#3 D *** NG IT, just in time to watch PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN last nite again. ION, UPI/TOPIX > US TO UNVEIL NEW MARITIME STRATEGY. Using naval power for global Humanitarian missions, WAGE WAR TO PREVENT WAR??? NEW STRATEGY IN THE WORKS REPORTEDLY FOR ONLY TWO YARNS. DREAM/VISION > May explain why [post-cataclysm]USN, etal. heavy carriers and other warships are taking people off Pacific islands to transport them to new homes elsewhere. What are infants, the unborn, and elem-middle schoolers now, will be mature adults by then. D *** NG IT, TWO YEARS - IS THAT ALL? CLEARLY USDOD, FBI-CIA, etc, ARE ONCE AGAIN NOT LOOKING AT GWEN STEFANI's BOSOMS/BOOBS. I take it this also means MADONNA will NOT be tucking in to child's bed the future WORLD MESSIAH, ala her song "JESSIE" [Jesus], etal. Iff PYWAR-INTEL can't get their answers from Gwen's bosoms, what will???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-18 03:15|| 2007-10-18 03:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Sterling Vorus was detained after his ship, the Odyssey Explorer, was seized Tuesday as it sailed into Spanish waters

They almost deserve to have it taken from them for teasing the Spanish like that.

Posted by gorb 2007-10-18 03:21|| 2007-10-18 03:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, he was in Gibraltar. Kinda hard to leave that port without crossing into Spanish waters.

Posted by gromky 2007-10-18 05:32|| 2007-10-18 05:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe they couldn't afford to charter a private plane. :-)

Posted by gorb 2007-10-18 06:18|| 2007-10-18 06:18|| Front Page Top

#7 The Spanish must have confused Vorus with an Incan name.

Posted by ed 2007-10-18 07:49|| 2007-10-18 07:49|| Front Page Top

#8 "There have always been navies, laws and the rule of law to help combat pirates,"

[at court, Thorpe explains that he stopped the Spanish ship and freed Englishmen being held as slaves]
Queen Elizabeth: So you have taken it upon yourself to remedy the defects of Spanish justice?
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe: Insofar as it lies within my power, yes, your Grace.
Queen Elizabeth: And you conceive it to be part of your... mission to assault and loot the ship of an ambassador to the court? Captain Thorpe, do you imagine that we are at war with Spain?
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe: Your Grace, Spain is at war with the world.

The captain of a treasure-hunting ship intercepted in a dispute over a $500 million undersea find was released Wednesday after being held overnight for questioning in a southern Spanish port city

Pull on the oars
Freedom is yours
Strike for the shores of Dover

Over the sea
Hearty & free
Troubles will soon be over

Sing as you row
Here we go
For we know that we row
For home, sweet home...

Pull on the oars
Freedom is yours
Strike for the shores of Dover

Over the sea
Hearty and free,
Troubles will soon be over

Here we go
For we know that we row for Home!
Sailing for Home!
Home!

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-10-18 08:44|| 2007-10-18 08:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Is this site ever going to install a JosephMendiola translator? His gibberish is found in nearly every thread.

Posted by Crusader 2007-10-18 10:42|| 2007-10-18 10:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Crusader, we've tested a few behind the scenes, but they keep melting.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-10-18 11:08|| 2007-10-18 11:08|| Front Page Top

#11 *laughs*

Posted by Crusader 2007-10-18 12:04|| 2007-10-18 12:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Crusader, about half the time there's useful information there. The rest of the time it's just stream of consciousness stuff. In the latter case he generally mentions popular culture and his favorite actresses.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-18 12:21|| 2007-10-18 12:21|| Front Page Top

#13 No mention if the O.E. didn't have one of those minisubs to run outside the Spanish waters with all the booty; then sit and wait for the charade to play out in port......

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-10-18 13:56|| 2007-10-18 13:56|| Front Page Top

#14 If this ship is as old as people think, couldn't the US Navy interfere and "Protect" anything coming from the wreck for historical purposes of some sort? They build reefs, surely there's some way to protect our citizens from un-lawful imprisonment here.

Posted by Charles 2007-10-18 15:00|| 2007-10-18 15:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Crusader---Joe is an oracle. He is bringing up stuff from the collective unconscious....in wholesale quantities. Reading it backwards does not help, that is shallow. There are dissertations being written as we speak on his subjects.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-10-18 15:11|| 2007-10-18 15:11|| Front Page Top

#16 Give that guy a Letter of Marque!

Offer Spain 10%, the USG gets 25% and Captain Vorus gets the rest.

Park an Aegis cruiser on the site to enforce it.

Posted by mojo 2007-10-18 15:48|| 2007-10-18 15:48|| Front Page Top

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