Expert Says Satellite Images from Space Reveal Sunken Treasure Ships (VIDEO)

It may be the final frontier, but satellites in space are allowing treasure hunters unexpected opportunities; how will the world deal with this?

Cannon from the HMS Victory Courtesy: divethoughts.com

(HOUSTON, Tx.) - Master Merchant Marine and salvage consultant, Captain Tom Williams pens tense tale of lost sunken treasure and asks the forbidden questions: how are all the lost and ancient shipwreck sites suddenly being found?

And should any international laws apply to deep water salvage?

Odyssey, a deep-sea exploration team based in Tampa Florida announced in May 2007 that they had found the shipwreck of a Spanish Galleon. The “Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes y las Animas” which sank near the Portuguese coast in 1804, has reportedly yielded 17 tons of salvaged silver from the Atlantic Ocean seafloor.

The British warship HMS Victory was reported found by the same Odyssey group in February 2009, after sinking with all hands in 1744. This lost shipwreck is expected to yield 4 tons of gold from 330 feet below the English Channel.

Greg Stemm, co-founder of the Odyssey Marine Exploration team announced there is a secret warehouse somewhere in Florida that contains an undisclosed amount of recovered lost treasure.

With the discovery of the Spanish Galleon in 2007, and the subsequent find of HMS Victory, a simple question has surfaced; asked by the author of the breakout novel Lost and Found.

“Lost and Found” is an exciting new novel by Tom Williams that has been receiving many incredible reviews and national acclaim, but has someone really used a geological survey satellite and found all the lost shipwrecks that still contain silver or gold?

Does the ultimate treasure map now exist? Are all the lost treasure fleets undiscovered for centuries now identified and located with specific GPS coordinates? Can these wreck sites be salvaged legally, or can a US Judge make a ruling on undersea artifacts as in the pending case of the Titanic.

Some in the Spanish government have called the Florida based treasure hunters “21st Century Pirates,” but no one is asking the pertinent questions: How are these lost ships being found? Moreover, how many more have already been found and scheduled for salvage and will these continuing undersea operations be deemed legal.

Can the recent find of the Spanish Galleon worth 500 million, and HMS Victory with four tons of gold onboard be linked to a new and highly secret technology? Have all the other lost treasure ships around the world already been found by an orbiting satellite? Could the price of precious metals plummet if suddenly every lost treasure ship undiscovered for centuries was available for instant salvage?

Could Captain Tom Williams’ novel Lost and Found be the fictitious thriller that has turned to fact? It certainly sounds like it.

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Here is a Tom Williams interview on the FOX network:

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Sounds like "Weak Stone Bridge" gold frequency stuff. Simple-the opera singer hits a certain frequency shattering the glass. Two frequencies cannot exist in the same place "Shattering" the glass and finding the gold. Something like 200 ft. -Talk radio told me this. (Prophecyclub.com)

There is nothing wrong with the fact that this guy plugs his own book in an interview on FOX. He was not interviewed as an expert, but instead as an author that has written a fictional story that could very well turn out fact. Technology is not standing still... it is leaping forward with incredible quickness. If we can find, using technology, that the Congo River is the deepest river of the world, why couldn't someone find shipwrecks at the bottom of the ocean? Now anyone with funding will be sending "Mega-Mag" satellites into orbit. The person of technology that I am celebrates an idea like this... for a minute or two. Then the historian/archivist/diver-want-to-be-underwater-archaeologist in me is put off by the potential damage that could be done to these historic sites by anyone rich enough to get richer, with the historic value not even on the back burner. It is my nightmare that all will be found before I get to look. I'll probably check out the book... As a side note, Tom Williams' next book should be called "Finders Keepers" Great article!

This guy is possibly the biggest idiot that FOX has ever interviewed. They really need to better screen those who they're going to give valuable air-time to. This guy's any embarrassment.

Editor: Oh come on Scott, that is a seriously prestigious award at FOX; there is a long list of contenders and I hear it takes an extraordinary amount of time just to evaluate the list of idiots who qualify. 

So seriously, why the negativity on this guy?  I have to tell you this comment is an example of what we are asking people not to do. Stimulate dialog man, don't just use this space to pronounce your judgement; qualify it.  You insult the guy, say it's the worst thing FOX ever did, and leave it at that, why?  Why don't you enlighten us ?

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