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Who gets to keep pirate treasure when it is discovered in the ocean?

I was watching a show on National Geographic last night about pirates and lost treasures. So if someone who is searching and diving for shipwrecks finds treasure at the bottom of the ocean, does it go to a musuem or do they get to keep it? This one ship they were talking about, I think they called it the Wydah, is believed to have 4 or 5 tons of gold stashed between the decks and is somewhere off the east coast of the US. This man and his team have been searching for it for like 20 years and think they are close. Will they get to keep the millions and millions in treasure should they find it?

In general, I believe the salvagers get to keep most if not all of the treasure they find. There may be fees and taxes to a country if the ship lies within its borders. Otherwise, they worked hard for it and earned every dubloon.

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