• Wreck of Dmitri Donskoi with supposedly $130 billion in gold inside, discovered
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a22345825/russian-shipwreck-gold-dmitri-donskoii/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-18/sunken-treasure-ship-discovery-reports-roil-some-korean-stocks A salvage company has located the remains of a Russian warship lost during the the Russo-Japanese War. The battle-damaged cruiser Dmitrii Donskoi was scuttled off the coast of Korea in 1905, reportedly carrying a cargo of gold worth an estimated $130 billion in today’s dollars. An international consortium of companies plans to salvage the gold. According to the Telegraph, the Donskoi was found less than a mile off the coast of Ulleung island, at a depth of 1,423 feet in the Sea of Japan. A submersible descended to the wreck and captured an image of the ship’s name on the stern in the Cyrillic alphabet. The South Korean Shinil Group, which discovered the wreck, plans to recover the gold sometime later this year with help from companies in China, Canada, and the U.K. At the time of her sinking Donskoi was reportedly carrying 5,500 boxes of gold bars and 200 tons of gold coins with a street value today of $130 billion. That’s more than twice Russia’s 2017 defense budget, which was $61 billion. If the treasure does materialize, the Russian government will receive half of the recovered amount.
Who gets the other half gold? It's Korean waters, but it's a Russian ship. Or does whoever discovered it get to keep the gold? Maybe Japan should get it since they sunk it fair and square
I'm imagining someone sending a small sub down from a distance and stealing the lot under their noses while they get the gear together to lift it on a bigger scale. A-Team style.
The consortium, founded in June 2018, still has not applied to South Korea's Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries for the salvage rights. No evidence has been offered by Shinil Group for the ship carrying any gold when it sank. In 2001, another South Korean salvage company announced that it had located the wreck of Dmitrii Donskoi. Its share price rose by 41% in one week on rumours that 14,000 tons of gold (10% of the gold ever mined on Earth) were on board the ship, but they never raised anything from the sea, and the company went bankrupt. This'll be interesting.
Fuck salvagers, pirates, the lot of them.
that much gold has got to be cursed
the only thing in ruins will be the vessel, knowing looters.
I hope they've got the ship under surveillance or something, considering the fact that I don't think there are a lot of places less than a mile off the coast of Ulleung Island that have a depth of 1,423 feet. Why do they publicize the locations of such high value finds so nonchalantly?
I think that's underestimating how difficult it is to do this sort of thing. There's a reason it costs so much money to fund these expeditions
there's no such thing as curses or anything intrinsically bad about gold. Now can we quit with this curse shit and move on to the 21st century already?
you're no fun.
you're a laugh riot, huh
Did you type this using the telekinesis your very large girthy brain has granted you
Have you been cursed to lack a sense of humour?
No they won’t because they aren’t archesologists lol. Salvage operations is a fancy term for looting. They don’t care about the site, the vessel, or its history - they damage that just to get to their precious gold and valuables. Countless sites have been ruined because of looters. i don’t care thst they’re looking to make money, I care thst they destroy sites to do so.
It's a rusting hulk in 600m of water, far too deep to be ever viewed or enjoyed. There are tens of thousands of hulks like it all over the planet.
You're the greedy guy in the movies that doesn't believe in superstition and opens the mummy's tomb ahead of everyone else and lets loose a curse on everyone and dies an especially horrible death
pfft I could swim that e z
Let's go for a swim
Am I the only one who thinks a big random cask influx into Russia right now is a terrible idea?
ya I can't see how this doesn't cause sanction issues
I'll weaponize it and sell it to the highest bidder!
Archeaology isn’t about “viewing or enjoying”. It’s about learning about the site, the people involved, ship building techniques, etc... there are far less shipwrecks out there than you think. There’s also only one Dmitrii Donskoi. A far cry from “thousands of hulks”. Attitudes like yours are why why we lose important puzzle pieces to the past. Anything for a fucking dollar.
Did you miss the number of zeros after that "dollar"?
It doesn’t matter lmao. The history is what matters, not the dollar amount attached to the vessel.
The ship is not going to be around for much longer. I generally have no qualms with salvaging shipwrecks, since just about anything is better than leaving artifacts on the seabed to deteriorate into oblivion. I hope they are able to recover the gold; hell, the amount of money on the ship could cover raising it and building a museum around it somewhere if they wanted to.
The artifacts and ships are being better preserved on the bottom than by raising them. It’s the same in any archeaological field, it’s usually left better untouched and in the ground except in cases where the site is actively threatened (such as by construction, dredging, etc...) they’re never going to make a museum either, they’re looters. They want the paycheck at the end, they could give less of a sbit about the ship.
Do you even know what rust is
The scams pulled on this ship in the past are pretty hilarious. In 2001, a South Korean salvage company announced that it had found the wreck of Dmitrii Donskoi.[13] Its share price rose by 41% in one week on rumours that 14,000 tons of gold (10% of the gold ever mined on Earth) were on board the ship, but they never raised anything from the sea, and the company went bankrupt.[14] South Korea's Institute of Ocean Science and Technology claims to have discovered the wreck in 2003 and has photographs dating from 2007 on its website.[15] Either that or its cursed
Are they people who can help me find my keys when I lose them after leaving the house?
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