Sunday, February 5, 2012

Treasure hunter claims to have found British WWII wreck containing platinum worth $3bn

From The Daily Mail

A treasure hunter claims to have located the wreck of a bombed British merchant ship containing platinum bars worth $3billion.

If the theory is right, the ship, which was torpedoed by the Germans in World War II, could be one of the richest sunken treasure troves ever discovered.

Greg Brooks, of Sub Sea Research in Gorham, Maine, this week announced the wreck, sitting in 700 feet of water 50 miles off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is that of the S.S. Port Nicholson.

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