Current Events > Is it possible there's gold and treasure at the bottom of the ocean right now?

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Diamonds and rubies that have just been laying their in the sand for centuries? Or would they erode by now and become part of the water/coral reef

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Yeah there's a ton of stuff down there. Actually finding it, getting it safely, and the cost of doing it can be huge.

I think one good example is the nazi uboats potentially just stuffed with loads of expensive stuff from all the shit they stole.

i bet there's an abyss cutie down there who's just shy

The bottom of the ocean is covered in thick layer of goo made up of organic matter.

coral would grow over it but the gems wouldn't erode

The deepest and darkest areas of the ocean are where the Illuminati hides most of the available big-tiddy goth gamer girlfriends.

Noumas posted...

Diamonds and rubies that have just been laying their in the sand for centuries? Or would they erode by now and become part of the water/coral reef

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_galleon_San_Jos%C3%A9

The wreck of the San Jos is estimated to be worth billions of dollars,[4][7][8] based on the speculation that it had up to 11 million 4-doubloons (i.e. 11 million 8 escudos gold coins, or 11 million coins each of 27 grams of 92% gold, totaling 8.8 million troy ounces AGW, or $11.5 billion) and many silver coins on board at the time of its sinking

They've actually found these types of ships before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_las_Mercedes

This turned into a legal case because it was grabbed right off the coast of Spain and Portugal where it had been sunk in a battle with the British in 1805. They recovered half a million gold and silver coins.

An American treasure hunting company found the wreck. Took the treasure out, sent it back to the US but when it all went up for auction Spain caught wind of it and managed to successfully sue for the contents of the ship to be sent back to Spain.

After this case I wouldn't be surprised if other wrecks have been found and the contents melted down and sold without the world knowing about it.

Atralis posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_galleon_San_Jos%C3%A9

The wreck of the San Jos is estimated to be worth billions of dollars,[4][7][8] based on the speculation that it had up to 11 million 4-doubloons (i.e. 11 million 8 escudos gold coins, or 11 million coins each of 27 grams of 92% gold, totaling 8.8 million troy ounces AGW, or $11.5 billion) and many silver coins on board at the time of its sinking

They've actually found these types of ships before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_las_Mercedes

This turned into a legal case because it was grabbed right off the coast of Spain and Portugal where it had been sunk in a battle with the British in 1805. They recovered half a million gold and silver coins.

An American treasure hunting company found the wreck. Took the treasure out, sent it back to the US but when it all went up for auction Spain caught wind of it and managed to successfully sue for the contents of the ship to be sent back to Spain.

After this case I wouldn't be surprised if other wrecks have been found and the contents melted down and sold without the world knowing about it.

That's kind of insane. The dispute over who owns it kind of reminds me of when the British museum didn't want to send back all the items it took from other countries

Theres a show dedicated to people mining for gold in the ocean, spill off from arctic mountains among other sites. They pull up sand and sift through it separating gold particles, sometimes pulling in a lot of money. It was on Discovery, Bering Sea Gold I think.

At the bottom of the ocean, sunken ships are turned into tourist attractions by mermaids.
You follow a mermaid wearing nerd glasses around while she makes her best guess at what the deck, the rooms below deck and the crow's nest are used for.
At the end you go to the souvenir shop where you can buy shiny coins, gems and other lost treasure.

IRL pokemon live deep in the Marinara Trench.

Gold, diamond, and ruby all have very low chemical reactivity so theyll persist in the environment for far longer than a few centuries.

Ok what if a solid gold bar was put on shore by the water's edge, would it not erode over time with waves crashing against it?

Noumas posted...

That's kind of insane. The dispute over who owns it kind of reminds me of when the British museum didn't want to send back all the items it took from other countries

I mean you say this in past tense

That's still going on. Britan is STILL refusing to return the stuff they stole from other countries. It's fucking nasty.

Imagine if Japanese just invaded America, took the Declaration of Independence, George Brett's pine tar bat and the Lincoln mounment and then refused to give it back?

Noumas posted...

Ok what if a solid gold bar was put on shore by the water's edge, would it not erode over time with waves crashing against it?

funny how these things come about when you're tied to the teeth and mouth

Gold won't erode, corrode, rust, its versatile to the elements and part of why they use it in space helmet visors.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Gold won't erode, corrode, rust, its versatile to the elements and part of why they use it in space helmet visors.

Dude think about that for a minute. Granite erodes. And it is a hell of a lot harder than gold. Now, everything else you said is true.

mustachedmystic posted...

Dude think about that for a minute. Granite erodes. And it is a hell of a lot harder than gold. Now, everything else you said is true.

Isn't granite just rock, which is sand, which is easily breakable?

MabusIncarnate posted...

Gold won't erode, corrode, rust, its versatile to the elements and part of why they use it in space helmet visors.

Gold absolutely can erode. That is how flour gold and tiny specs of gold come to be, they are over time with water, sand, currents, turned to smaller pieces of gold.

viewmaster_pi posted...

i bet there's an abyss cutie down there who's just shy

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/1/7/AAAJePAAEL2d.jpg

There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Under the water, carry the water
Remove the water from the bottom of the ocean
Water dissolving and water removing

Gold Divers got like 15 seasons.

Noumas posted...

Isn't granite just rock, which is sand, which is easily breakable?

Your thinking of sedentary rock, granite is if igneous(volcanic) rock.

Once you go deep enough there is no more water

Didn't some dudes find a sunken treasure a while back and then Spain just demanded it back?

Theres like 50 nukes just floating around in the ocean that were lost at sea

VampireCoyote posted...

Theres like 50 nukes just floating around in the ocean that were lost at sea

That many?

MabusIncarnate posted...

Gold won't erode, corrode, rust, its versatile to the elements and part of why they use it in space helmet visors.

It boggles my mind that we can lay gold on glassplastic in such a thin layer that it's see through.