Deep-sea secrets and the ‘Ship of Gold’: Why a treasure hunter sits behind bars as bounty gets auctioned
A treasure trove of artifacts recovered from a 165-year-old shipwreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is being auctioned off while the man responsible for the discovery sits behind bars for a sixth year.
Tommy Thompson, a deep-sea explorer who found the SS Central America shipwreck in 1988, could get out of the federal prison in Michigan if he would reveal the whereabouts of 500 gold coins.