http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2007/05/who_owns_the_black_swan.php
A Spanish newspaper boldly stated the "Black Swan" was a shipwreck off of the Gibratar coast and published a picture from a port employee showing a coin with the bust of King Charles III, a ruler of Spain in the 18th century, suggesting the ship was Spanish.
First Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said Friday in the papers "What we're seeing here is a presumed incidence of plundering".
Greg Stemm, co-founder of Odyssey Marine, denies the accusations. He said that the Black Swan shipwreck is somewhere in the Atlantic and that the coin depicting King Charles III is not from the wreck.
Everyone is speculating about the identity of the ship. Some are saying that the Black Swan is the HMS Sussex or the Merchant Royal. OMR maintains that they can confirm the Black Swan is not the HMS Sussex. The Merchant Royal was an English Merchant ship from the 17th Century.
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