The precious metals are thought to have belonged to the USSR and theUK, who were going to use them to pay back the US for aid. If this iscorrect, it is the world's most valuable find of its kind.
"We were working off the coast back in 2007 when one of ourresearchers came across recently declassified documents from Moscowand the US Treasury department that led us into a new search," GregBrooks, a treasure hunter from Sub-Sea Research, told RT.
As it turned out, the USSR had shipped these goods to Great Britainand then to the US as payment for the lend-lease program.
The search was far from easy thanks to the weather and conditions.
"It's an extremely hazardous area we were working in," Brooks said."The currents out there were anywhere from two knots to six knots.We've had some severe weather this past season. The equipment wasgoing down over 700 feet trying to enter the wreck."
Last but not least, it took the crew an immense effort to find the ship.
"The US Navy documents said the ship went down off Cape Cod and thatwas where we started to look," Brook recalled. "But it wasn't anywherenear. We had to cover 150 square miles before we actually found thewreck."
At first they were worried that someone would come and take theirtreasure but, luckily for them, this did not happen.
"Right now, we are facing no competition," Brooks told RT. "We have aUS Admiralty claim on the vessel and no one has come forward up tothis day. In early 2009 we filed legal notices in all the majornewspapers, the Wall Street journal, the New York Times, the Globeetc, in accordance with maritime law."
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