American treasure hunters have found and recovered hundreds more bars of silver off the coast of Ireland in water deeper than the Titanic in a fascinating deep sea expedition chronicled and filmed by the Discovery Channel (DStv 121) for new episodes of its ongoing docu series which will be shown on the factual entertainment TV channel in South Africa in due course.
The SS Gairsoppa was torpedoed and sunk off of the coast of Ireland during the Second World War, but Odyssey Marine Exploration - pioneers in the field of deep-ocean exploration - managed to find and recover more of the silver aboard - 110 tons of it worth $35 million.
This is the deepest recovery of precious metal ever done and is a world record.
I reported exactly a year ago when the Odyssey mission started to recover the first silver from the sunken ship.
"This was an extremely complex recovery which was complicated by the sheer size and structure of the SS Gairsoppa as well as its depth nearly three miles below the surface of the North Atlantic," says Greg Stemm, Odyssey's CEO.
