Sunken treasure off the English coast? Send the Royal Navy?

AARRRRRR Jim lad, AAARRRRRRRR.

Them pieces of eight be mine treasure me heartys.

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, she be a fine sea ferren vessle AARRRRRRRR.

Hoist the main sail you land lubers or ill tan yer hides AARRRRRRR

Hidden Treasure

There is a 'receiver of wrecks' in the UK who is responsible for all finds from ship wrecks. By law all finds have to be reported to the receiver of wrecks who will then try and establish the owner of the wreck and who the loot belongs to. If the Owner cannot be found it is often a case of 'finders keepers'. If the wreck is a naval vessel lost in battle it is usually designated a war grave and it is criminal offence to enter the vessel or remove anything.

Even the sea bed is policed these days.

The treasure is 40 miles off the coast and in international waters. So it is finders keepers.

Send in the Clowns;

where are the Clowns?

It might give the Prince something to do whilst his battalion are getting the flak in Iraq. Transfer him to the Navy.

I really don't see this sparking an international incident. At any rate, it appears to already be in the courts.

$500,000,000 isn't much to fight about. Why waste the resources of the military? Their attention is focused elsewhere.

At any rate, it isn't as though we'll be fighting over our share is it?

So have you got them foiled or what?

no let you and me go and keep it for ourselves,,

okay