Next time you're in Ireland, try gold diving
RogerB
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The SS Laurentic sank in 1917 with several thousand bars of gold on board, bound for the US and Canada. The ship hit two mines and sank within an hour. As of 2016, 22 bars remain in the wreck. Today each bar is worth about $500,000 - enough to pay for your vacation and an extra round of drinks in a Dublin pub.
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Unfortunately, the legal fees you would generate by finding and retrieving the bars would probably exceed their value. No drinks for you.
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Ransacking a war grave could get one shot on sight by a military patrol. And the last Royal Navy salvage made had to retrieve the bars from 33' below the sea bed. Not a task for any amateur.
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Likely already salvaged just not reported
I spent two wonderful weeks in the beautiful Emerald Isle a few years ago, but never took time to search for gold bars. Bars, yes, but none of them gold. I found Jameson and Guinness more to my liking, and thus avoided confrontation with a military patrol.
The waters of the coast of Donegal are mighty rough. It is a beautiful and fierce place.
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People are always finding Spanish gold doubloons from the Armada.
One might also find a Leprechaun.
(From the 1948 film "The Luck of the Irish")
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Gold bars from a shipwreck, emeralds from South America - two of the items still on my bucket list....
Cheers, RickO
Also a possibility.