Mystery of 400-year-old ship with £4,000,000,000 of gold
- On 16/09/2024
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By Jen Mills - Metro.co.uk
The ‘El Dorado of the Seas’ has been missing for 400 years and may finally reveal its secrets.
The mysterious Merchant Royal’s shipwreck is somewhere off the coast of Cornwall, but has left people baffled because to this day it has still never been found.
This is despite it carrying up to £4 billion of gold and other precious metals. So whoever finds it could get their hands on more treasure than Long John Silver, it is just going to be a little bit difficult for them to find it.
Previous attempts to find the 400-year-old ship have come back with nothing, but now a UK company is convinced they can do it. Former commercial fisherman and diver Nigel Hodge heads a team of 11 at Multibeam Services, a company specialising in locating lost wrecks.
He plans to spend all of the rest of this year looking for the wreck, covering a 200 square mile area of the English Channel.
It’s ‘not a gold rush’ though, Nigel told Metro.co.uk, even though he believes the wreck could be worth billions.
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