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Odyssey Marine & The Black Swan

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Published: May 4, 2009

The "Black Swan" is a Colonial-period site Odyssey discovered during 2007 in the Atlantic Ocean. Odyssey recovered over 500,000 silver coins weighing more than 17 tons, hundreds of gold coins, worked gold and other artifacts from this site. It is believed that this recovery constitutes the largest collection of coins ever excavated from a deep-ocean site.

The "Black Swan" site is located in an area where a number of Colonial-era ships are believed to have sunk. We discovered no apparent hull of a shipwreck or other sufficient evidence at the site to conclusively identify a vessel from which the treasure may have originated. One hypothesis being explored, however, suggests the treasure discovered at the "Black Swan" site may be associated with the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, a Spanish vessel that had been assigned to transport mail, private passengers and consignments of merchant goods and other cargoes at the time of its sinking in 1804. There are no signs of human remains at the site;

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