I was just reading some old post and I know this has been brought up before, but here we go again (incase there are any new ideas). What would you do if scuba diving around an old wreck site( with no claim or salvage permits), and you found a couple of pounds of gold or silver coins? Maybe not a fortune but lets say 5 lbs of gold coins. Now you're in a state that says no items can be taken off old wrecks. Most would keep them but then what would you do? You can't get a permit from the state, and anyway the state will keep it all if they knew you recovered it. So now what? Hide it away for a few years and sell it in another state? Keep making "stealth" missions and try to get more? Risk getting caught? Don't everyone jump on me at once, I wish I had this problem, and NO i didn't find anything. I just live in Maine and they say anything in the water over 50 years old is state property. I can honestly say that I wouldn't leave it on the bottom but I don't know what I would do at that point. Bell47