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Is there a list of what exactly was lost? Does anyone actively seek out and salvage this sunken treasure? I hate to think of another Garfield Phone thing in the future with something more dangerous.

https://time.com/5561165/garfield-phones-france/

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Somewhere there is a container full of Amazon Basics Butt Plugs waiting to spill forth its rubbery contents upon unsuspecting American beaches.

In Houston, we call that a Tuesday

In the 1990s, a ship from Hong Kong bound for Tacoma, Washington lost a shipping container that was filled with 30,000 yellow duckies.

Oceanographers were able to collaborate with beachcombers in the western US (and eventually as far away as the UK) to validate their models of how the currents would move the ducks.

Thankyou for the poetry!

My grandfather used to go and salvage (loot?) smashed up ships on the Yorkshire coast after storms as a kid in the early 20th century.

They had places they’d go after bad weather, knowing that’s where wrecks ended up.

Thats a very old tradition.

Sometimes local traditon encuraged potential salvage, by setting up false lights.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_(shipwreck)

but wikipedia actually says, this might be a urban legend, as there is no clear evidence this ever happened

There's a Japanese novel on the topic, which has a great English translation: "Shipwrecks" by Akira Yoshimura.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/1999/06/08/books/the-da...

This ship [0] went down offshore of Cornwall in 1641, with 60 men, 100,000 pounds of gold and 500,000 pieces-of-eight aboard. Cornwall is not known to be friendly to wrecks. And yet, nearly 400 years later, she's not been found. They say.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Royal

Okay, who's joining me for an expedition? Finders keepers, right?

You might find some argument about that when there is a lot of money involved, here was a previous controversial find on the bottom of the ocean

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190908-a-shipwreck-worth-b...

In the UK there is some dispute about 'finders keepers' in any case, there was a case last year where a couple of guys got jail time for stealing a hoard

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-50516...

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