Ship of gold in the deep blue sea
by Gary Kinder · first published 1998
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In September 1857, the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, foundered in a hurricane and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. Over four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of California gold were lost. It was the worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history, a tragedy that remained lost in legend for over a century. In the 1980s, a young engineer from Ohio set out to do what no one, not even the United States Navy, had been able to do: establish a working presence on the deep-ocean floor and o
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Oh, the link goes to the first page of an 8 page story. I also read "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea"... ever since I've wanted to play with a side-scan sonar. I see them on ebay for ~$7K.
on “Tommy Thompson, a Ship of Gold, and Investors Still Looking for Treasure (2014)” ↗"Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea" is the story of a shipwreck discovery that has always enthralled me. I've read it three times, and I'm so inspired about all the challenges they solved along the way. (Note: the hero of the story went…
on “Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things” ↗“Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea” is a book about the treasure hunt, recommended.
on “Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold” ↗This ship is the subject of the book "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea" by Gary Kinder. The recovery crew was subjected to a legal battle where the original insurers claimed ownership of the gold since they paid out for its loss. The head of the recovery team reportedly…
on “Doomed ship of gold’s ghostly picture gallery is plucked from the seabed” ↗…been arrested! That brought me to http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/01/28/tom... which had more details about the arrest. I learned about him a couple of years ago through the book "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea", only to find at the end that he had sign-off over the final publication, which made me wary about how to interpret the book. I then looked for more recent news about him, only to find that he had recently…
on “Tommy Thompson, a Ship of Gold, and Investors Still Looking for Treasure (2014)” ↗