A treasure trove of artifacts recovered from a 165-year-old shipwreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is being auctioned off while the man responsible for the discovery sits behind bars for a ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins has had that term ended by a federal judge in ...

Tommy Thompson, the scientist and explorer who discovered three tons of gold from the wreck of the S.S. Central America and later ended up in prison, is the subject of a new docuseries for Nat Geo.

Tommy Thompson did the impossible in 1988 and has been paying for it ever since. He found a gold-laden ship that sank in the Atlantic Ocean in the 1800s and developed equipment that plucked the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins has had that term ended by a federal judge ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins has had that term ended by a federal judge in ...

A federal judge on January 24 gave a former deep-sea treasure hunter two months to find a new attorney as he faces his sixth year in jail for refusing to reveal the location of 500 missing gold coins ...