How Underwater Lost Treasures Are Creating a New Gold Rush, Sunken Eldorado, ENDEVR Documentary
How Underwater Lost Treasures Are Creating a New Gold Rush, Sunken Eldorado, Business Documentary from 2019 Faced with an evergrowing demand for precious metals and dwindling extraction sites, the worlds oceans are being seen as a new Eldorado. Thousands of shipwrecks litter the ocean floor with cargoes of these precious metals. With todays technology, this treasure is in reach. Underwater archaeology has revealed that 3 million shipwrecks litter the ocean floor, 3, 500 of which sunk with cargoes of gold, silver and porcelain onboard. Billions of dollars worth of this material, just sitting there, at the bottom of the sea. With todays technology, this gold is in reach. But how can this sunken treasure be recovered And who has the right to do so The nation whose territorial waters host the wreck The country plundered years ago for its resources Or indeed humanity, as advertised by UNESCO Between diplomatic battles and great buccaneers, this international investigation uncovers a new go
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