He Found $150 Million Dollars // The Tommy Thompson Story
6/23/20268 min
Tommy Thompson is an American marine engineer who made history in 1988 by locating the SS Central America, a California Gold Rush-era steamship that sank in 1857 with tons of federal gold. While initially celebrated for recovering millions in treasure from the "Ship of Gold" using deep-sea robotic technology, his triumph quickly soured when the 161 private investors who funded his expedition sued him for failing to share the profits. Instead of complying with a 2012 court order to reveal the whereabouts of a missing batch of 500 gold coins, Thompson became a fugitive, living under aliases in Florida hotels
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In 1857, a ship full of gold is passing through the Atlantic, and kaboom, a hurricane hits, and the ship sinks, and millions of dollars in gold is lost, and one guy is gonna find it. The guy, his name is Tommy Thompson, and Tommy Thompson's about 32 years old when this story starts, and he's living in Columbus, Ohio. And Tommy Thompson, he's a really smart guy. He's a marine engineer, and he is obsessed with the idea of finding this sunken treasure of the SS Central America. And one day