PEORIA, IL — (Marketwire) — 06/10/10 — Oceanic Research and Recovery Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ORRV), a marine salvage and exploration company, today announced that the vessel Deep Scan will be going to the Dominican Republic to work on several different wreck sites in areas under concession to Deep Blue Marine. (more…)
PEORIA, IL — (Marketwire) — 05/06/10 – Oceanic Research and Recovery Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ORRV), a marine salvage and exploration company, today announced that the Federal Court for the Southern District of Alabama has ruled in favor of RS Operations and the Research Vessel Beacon. (more…)
The former bricklayer, 68, digs for six hours-a-day, three days-a-week on fields close to his home in Waterlooville, Hants. He has sold a Roman pendant worn by Caesar for £30,000 and is selling a Norman ring later this year with a guide price of £80,000. His biggest sale was a haul of 250 Roman coins found in fields near Petersfield for £100,000 to the British Museum in 1996. (more…)
Amateur treasure hunters have hit the jackpot after digging up a rare hoard of pennies from the reign of Henry I. The 15 members of the West Riding Detector Group struck silver when they unearthed 178 12th century coins scattered across a remote patch of farmland near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. (more…)
PEORIA, IL — (Marketwire) — 04/07/10 — Oceanic Research and Recovery Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ORRV), a marine salvage and exploration company, today announced it acquired a new boat for its treasure salvage operations. (more…)
Behind a family portrait on the wood-paneled basement wall of the suburban home of one of Chicago’s most notorious mobsters, federal agents made a stunning find: a secret compartment containing almost three-quarters of a million dollars in cash, 1,000 pieces of stolen jewelry, and seven loaded firearms. (more…)
An incredible discovery of 12 shipwrecks, some of them centuries-old, were found in the Baltic Sea by a gas company constructing an underwater pipeline. (more…)
Peoria, IL — (Marketwire) 03/31/2010 — Oceanic Research and Recovery Inc. (ORRV) (PINKSHEETS: ORRV), a marine salvage and exploration company, today announced it has secured the first round financing for its operations. (more…)
It is nothing short of incredible, the power of mud to preserve. In 1856 the Arabia steamed away from St. Louis bound for ports along the Missouri River where the 200 tons of cargo she carried would be distributed for use in frontier communities. (more…)
For a man with family treasures worth a fortune, Jaume Grau-Pla was somewhat cavalier about security. His 12th-century relics and jewels are worth hundreds of millions of pounds, a dazzling collection that others might have locked away or consigned to a bank vault complete with an expensive insurance policy. (more…)