spain boards treasure ship ! theye are all at it

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Spain seizes U.S. treasure boat near Gibraltar
Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:35PM EDT

By Brian Reyes

GIBRALTAR (Reuters) - Spanish police boarded an American treasure-hunting ship on Thursday that Madrid believes may have taken gold and silver worth millions from a sunken Spanish galleon.

A Spanish Civil Guard patrol boat challenged the Ocean Alert after it left the British colony of Gibraltar, on Spain's southern tip, and confronted the captain with a court order to search his vessel, the Civil Guard said in a statement.

The boat then docked at the Spanish port of Algeciras.

Spain says the U.S. company Odyssey Marine Exploration has treasure Madrid believes could have been retrieved from Spanish waters or from a Spanish galleon which sank in the Atlantic during the colonial period.



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