[BITList] The Wreck of the GAIRSOPPA

[John Feltham]

G’day folks,

On 2 Nov 2013, at 19:44 pm, M.j. Feltham <ismay at mjfeltham.plus.com> wrote:

> An extract from an article on gCaptain re Salvaging Wrecks for Dollars, the Company is in dire straits.
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> Odyssey had $10 million of revenue and a net loss of $17.9 million in the 12 months through June, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The company expects gross proceeds of $80 million from silver recovered over the last two years from the Gairsoppa, a World War II shipwreck three miles (4.8 kilometers) beneath the Atlantic Ocean, Odyssey said last week.


She was a BISN Vessel.

See also…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Gairsoppa

and…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176025/SS-Gairsoppa-US-company-recovers-48-tons-silver-British-wartime-shipwreck.html



ooroo

Bad typists of the word, untie.





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