{"id":5607,"date":"2012-02-01T09:06:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T14:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=5607"},"modified":"2012-02-01T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T14:07:07","slug":"a-real-life-treasure-hunt-local-divers-to-recover-3-billion-from-sunken-world-war-ii-ship-off-the-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=5607","title":{"rendered":"A Real-Life Treasure Hunt: Local Divers to Recover $3 Billion From Sunken World War II Ship off the Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0by Lisa DeCanio<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0In 1942, a British ship called the Port Nicholson, was traveling across the Atlantic from the Soviet Union to the United States. During its journey, the Port Nicholson sank at an unknown location after it was torpedoed by a German U-Boat.<\/p>\n

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The clincher? The Port Nicholson was carrying $53 million in platinum when it sank.<\/p>\n

Today, that platinum is worth an estimated $3 billion, and a Boston-based crew plans on recovering the lost treasure, reports CBS Boston<\/a>. The treasure-hunting crew of the Sea Hunter has spent the past three years locating the ship and planning the dive. The Port Nicholson lies about 50 miles off the coast of Provincetown, MA<\/a>, 700 feet below sea level. The waters where the ship lies are incredibly choppy, so the dive will have to be strategically planned around weather conditions.<\/p>\n

The Sea Hunter crew, led by Captain Gary Esper, hunts treasure professionally, most recently traveling to Haiti to mine shipwrecks down there without much fruit to show for their labor.<\/p>\n

According to CBS Boston, \u201cthis could be the richest shipwreck in history.\u201d Once the platinum is brought to the surface, a judge makes the final decision on how the treasure is divvied up.<\/p>\n

I can think of three billion ways I would spend $3 billion. Aside from paying off my loans, I\u2019d buy a brand-new wardrobe, a mansion on Comm. Ave., season tickets to every Boston sports team and an entire private Boloco store that only serves burritos to me and my friends.<\/p>\n

Apparently, other shipwrecks exist closer to home in the Boston Harbor<\/a>, but as far as we know, they sunk in the 1990s and have no treasure to offer besides some cool images on Google Maps.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0by Lisa DeCanio
\n\u00a0In 1942, a British ship called the Port Nicholson, was traveling across the Atlantic from the Soviet Union to the United States. During its journey, the Port Nicholson sank at an unknown location after it was torpedoed by a German U-Boat.
\nThe clincher? The Port Nicholson was carrying $53 million in platinum when it sank.
\nToday, that platinum is worth an estimated $3 billion, and a Boston-based crew plans on recovering the lost treasure, reports CBS Boston. The treasure-hunting crew of the Sea Hunter has spent the past three years locating the ship and planning the dive. The Port Nicholson lies about 50 miles off the coast of Provincetown, MA, 700 feet below sea level. The waters where the ship lies are incredibly choppy, so the dive will have to be strategically planned around weather conditions.
\nThe Sea Hunter crew, led by Captain Gary Esper, hunts treasure professionally, most recently traveling …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,42,11,32,31,22],"tags":[78,77,76],"class_list":["post-5607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-reefs","category-boats","category-reefs","category-reference","category-report","category-wrecks","tag-salvage","tag-treasure","tag-wreck"],"yoast_head":"\nA Real-Life Treasure Hunt: Local Divers to Recover $3 Billion From Sunken World War II Ship off the Cape - Divetalking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=5607\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Real-Life Treasure Hunt: Local Divers to Recover $3 Billion From Sunken World War II Ship off the Cape\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=5607\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-02-01T14:06:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-02-01T14:07:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/shipwrec_PortNicholson.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=5607#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=5607\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/02d5721103fd9d171fcc8cfb74d80947\"},\"headline\":\"A Real-Life Treasure Hunt: Local Divers to Recover $3 Billion From Sunken World War II Ship off the Cape\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-02-01T14:06:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-02-01T14:07:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=5607\"},\"wordCount\":312,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=5607#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/02\\\/shipwrec_PortNicholson.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"salvage\",\"treasure\",\"wreck\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Artificial Reefs\",\"Boats\",\"Reefs\",\"Reference\",\"Report\",\"Wrecks\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=5607\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=5607\",\"name\":\"A Real-Life Treasure Hunt: Local Divers to Recover $3 Billion From Sunken World War II Ship off the Cape - 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