Ocean Marine Exploration recovered 28kg from the wreck of SS Central America Reuters Nearly 30kg ... two gold coins, a bottle, a piece of pottery, a sample of the shipwreck's wooden structure ...

This sextant, found in the debris field of the SS Central America shipwreck, may have been used to fix the position of the ship during the transit from Panama until she sank off the coast ...

Given the reconnaissance purpose of the dive, only five gold ingots, two gold coins, a bottle, a piece of ... Depiction of the SS Central America [photo courtesy of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated ...

Tommy Thompson, a deep-sea explorer who found the SS Central America shipwreck in 1988, could get out of the federal prison in Michigan if he would reveal the whereabouts of 500 gold coins.

In 1857, the SS Central America, also known as the "ship of gold", sank off the coast of the US state of South Carolina, along with some new-found riches from the California Gold Rush. It was a ...

The SS Central America was first discovered in 1988, at a depth of 7,200 feet, and recovery operations were conducted until 1991; according to media reports, the initial recovery operations were ...

The company has been working at the Central America site since then. The wreck was discovered in the late 1980s by a crew headed by former Battelle scientist Tommy Thompson of Columbus.

At the time of its sinking, Central America SS carried gold then valued at approximately US$8 million (2019 equivalent is US$550 million, assuming a gold value of $1,528.40 per troy ounce).