Katasztrófában tűnt el a kincs - végre előkerülnek a rudak és érmék

Kép: Image: 0192819886, License: Rights managed, April 2014 - Off the coast of South Carolina, United States: A contemporary lithograph depicting the sinking of the SS Central America. More than 60 pounds of gold were recovered from a 157-year-old shipwreck off the coast of South Carolina in April, and the deep-sea exploration company that retrieved it announced today that there is plenty more down there. On April 15, the Odyssey Marine Exploration used a robot to recover nearly 1,000 ounces of gold during the first reconnaissance dive to the S.S. Central America shipwreck site in more than two decades. The exploration was appointed by an Ohio court in an effort to retrieve the treasure for former investors who were defrauded in the original hunt. The 280-foot wooden-hulled steamship, en route to New York from San Francisco, was carrying as much as 21 tons of gold ingots, freshly minted gold coins and raw gold from California mines when it sank in a hurricane in September 1857. The sinking triggered part of what historians say was the first U.S. financial crisis, known as the Panic of 1857. Most of the ship's 477 passengers — many of them gold prospectors — perished. The ship now sits 160 miles off the coast of Charleston, S.C., 7,200 feet below the surface., Place: United States, Model Release: No or not aplicable, Credit line: Profimedia-Red Dot, Polaris, Fotó: Profimedia-Red Dot