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"Maritime sources in Spain have today confirmed that official details have already been released in public during the past weeks in which Spain's own coastal tracking system has placed the vessels beyond the 30 mile limits of their surveillance equipment in Atlantic waters."
This is the third attempt by the Spanish Press to discredit Odyssey Marine since the recovery of the "Black Swan" treasure. And you thought the US press was bad.
First, there was the reported "King Carlos III" coin that supposedly was taken by a dock worker unloading the treasure. This was later proven to be a coin photo from the Franklin Mint's archive . Next, the Spanish press had a field day exhorting the fact that Spain had filed a lawsuit against Odyssey Marine. This too was untrue as Spain's US lawyer Jim Goold said that it was a 'Verified Claim' stating that the Spanish Government did not intend to give up property rights to any Spanish property which might be on the recovery sites. Finally, Lorenzo "Pipe" Sarmiento had "explosive satellite data" that Odyssey's ships never left the Mediterranean and that this data would refute Odyssey's claim that the treasure was recovered from the Atlantic. Today maritime sources in Spain have confirmed that Spain's own coastal tracking system has placed the vessels in Atlantic waters.
At first Spain was suspicious that the recovery was from the HMS Sussex, a British warship that had sunk east of Gibraltar in disputed waters. Even though Odyssey has stated that the Black Swan was recovered off the coast of England in the Atlantic. Many English experts believe that the recovered "Black Swan" is the Merchant Royal.