Return of the Spanish Pirates!

The Spanish military has seized an Panamanian ship owned by an American treasure hunting company. Spain has had it's panties all in a wad because they believe that the treasure that was found by the ship, was an old Spanish galleon, and they say everything found is theirs.

The Spanish Civil Guard has intercepted a boat operated by a US company amid a row over treasure from a shipwreck.

The guard had been ordered by a Spanish judge to seize the vessel as soon as it left the British colony of Gibraltar.

Gibraltar officials and Odyssey Marine Exploration, which owns the ship, said Spain had boarded the ship illegally as it was in international waters.

In May, Odyssey said it had found $500m (£253m) in coins from a 17th Century wreck somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.

Madrid suspects the sunken galleon may either have been Spanish or have gone down in Spanish waters.

The salvaged booty, which included half a million silver coins and hundreds of gold objects, has already been flown back to the US.

After leaving Gibraltar, the Ocean Alert was picked up at about 0700 GMT on Thursday off Europa Point and sent to the Spanish port of Algeciras to be searched, the Civil Guard said.

The guard was investigating a possible "offence against Spanish historic heritage", it said in a statement.

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A spokesman for the governor of Gibraltar said the ship was in international waters at the time it was seized.

Gold, Greed has motivated the Commie led Gov't to perpetrated an illegal act of piracy on a ship sailing in international waters. Spain doesn't care about the "heritage" factor in the find, they only care about the money they can rip off an America company in a legal adventure. Other than the ship they seized, they probably are going to get nothing, because the operators probably shipped everything off of it of value and all the secret info they had on the find. So what do the Spanish get out of it? Bad PR and the honor of looking like fools and pirates.


Mr Minority