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New 11-part series about exploring shipwrecks to air on Discovery Channel

Added to the Old Boat Blog on May 31, 2008 at 2:27 am EST

The Discovery Channel, long known for its interesting but artificially melodramatic series about the natural world and history, has recently announced that it will be producing eleven episodes of a series that follows a company searching and collecting treasure from shipwrecks around the world.

The exploration company is Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc., which recently entered into a protracted legal battle over the claim rights to a sunken Spanish ship that contained millions of dollars worth of centuries-old coins. Odyssey is working on several sites around the world; the operations are in various stages, which the series will reflect.

Of most interest to readers of this blog, the series will highlight the forensic analysis of the treasures and artifacts discovered on such ships. Coins, jewelry, and weapons, as well as clocks, tools, household items and other objects of concern to mariners of centuries past are often found on shipwrecks, in various states of decay. These treasures are of interest not only to historians, but also to collectors, boating enthusiasts and just plain decorators looking for a boating theme.

The series has not been named yet. It will be taped and broadcast in high definition.

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