Treasure Hunters Find $3 Billion in Platinum on Sunken WW2 Ship

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Treasure hunters claim to have found the remains of a British ship torpedoed during WWII filled with platinum, now worth a massive $3 billion (usd).
Maine-based Sub Sea Research found the SS Port Nicholson on the ocean bottom around 30 miles off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Spokesman Greg Brooks claims a US Treasury Department ledger indicates platinum bars were on board, as part of a payment from the Soviet Union to the US for war supplies.
The company claims to have video footage showing the platinum bars, although none of the bounty has yet been brought to the surface.

The Port Nicholson was sailing from Halifax in Canada to New York when it was torpedoed and sank in 1942. Four people died when the ship went down and 87 were rescued.
The Sub Sea Research team discovered the sunken treasure in August 2008 with help from a remote control machine tethered to their ship, the Sea Hunter, the paper said.
The cargo, valued in 1942 at about $53 million, was a lend-lease payment to the United States from the Soviet Union.
The treasure hunters said that there are at least 30 boxes scattered around the shipwreck.

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