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Tommy Gregory Thompson is an American treasure hunter known for his leading role in the discovery of the wreck of the SS Central America on September 11, 1988. [4] He is also the author of a book about the discovery, America's Lost Treasure, published in 1998, [5] and is a main character in the best-selling 1998 non-fiction book Ship of Gold in ...
13 wrz 2014 · Around 1983, Thompson grew obsessed with tracking down the SS Central America. When the ship went down off the South Carolina coast in 1857, 425 people drowned and gold worth millions was lost.
SS Central America, known as the Ship of Gold, was a 280-foot (85 m) sidewheel steamer that operated between Central America and the East Coast of the United States during the 1850s. She was originally named the SS George Law, after George Law of New York.
15 gru 2020 · Key points: Tommy Thompson discovered the SS Central America shipwreck back in 1988. Investors who backed his discovery trip sued him, but he went on the run for three years. Thompson says he does not know where the gold is and has refused to cooperate. Research scientist Tommy Thompson is not imprisoned for breaking the law.
1 sie 2022 · Tommy Thompson, a deep-sea explorer who found the shipwreck in 1988, has been in federal prison for six years because he refuses to answer questions about the whereabouts of 500 gold coins. He...
In 1857, the SS Central America , one of the steamships operating on the Atlantic side of the Panama route, sank in a hurricane taking 425 people and an estimated $400 million worth of gold to the ocean bottom almost 8,000 feet below.
The Columbia-America Discovery Group of 100-plus limited partners under the direction of founder Thomas Thompson, located the wreck with the aid of a computer program that analyzed data from the hundreds of contemporary news articles after the sinking.
