Sunken Treasure: Footage of $210 mln silver wreck

Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. on Monday said it confirmed the identity and location of a World War II-era shipwreck believed to be carrying 7 (m) million ounces of silver. The SS Gairsoppa, a British cargo ship torpedoed by a German U-boat in February 1941, is sitting nearly 4,700 metres, or 15,419 feet, below the surface of the North Atlantic, about 300 miles (480 km) off Ireland's coast in international waters.

• 2011-09-28T17:09:33+00:00
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