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Ocean Alert in Falmouth

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After being detained, searched, and then cleared by the Guardia Civil in Andalusia, the Ocean Alert was detected by AISlive in the port of Falmouth, England. Her sister ship, the Odyssey Explorer, is still docked in Gibraltar and will probably have to submit to a search by Spain if she wants to leave the Mediterranean.

The Ocean Alert is strictly a survey vessel while the Explorer has ROV capabilities and is used for recovery operations. It is doubtful that any additional recovery operations will commence without the Explorer unless the company has leased additional ships for that purpose. It is believed that the company has at least two ROVs.

Unless Spain tones down it's stance concerning treasure recovery in and around it's waters it seems likely that the ships will use other ports other than Gibraltar for future operations. In the past the Odyssey ships have used Gibraltar and the Mediterranean as a winter port.

Some experts believe Odyssey found the wreck of the Merchant Royal, a British ship loaded with tons of Spanish coins that sank off the southwestern tip of England in 1641. The company received exclusive salvage rights to a wreck site in the area where the Merchant Royal is believed to have gone down. This makes Falmouth a very interesting port of choice.

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