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COMMENTS: The Lost Treasure of Refugio
ABC's road trip to Houston gave Ryan Owens the opportunity to profile Nathan Smith, a singing treasure hunter who is suing for the opportunity "to unearth whatever it is he saw on Google Earth." Inspired by a tale of sunken Spanish bullion he read in Lost Treasures & American History, Smith searched satellite pictures of Refugio on the Gulf Coast of Texas for the site of a hurricane-caused C19th wreck. Smith's lawyers believe maritime law allows him to take a boat up any navigable waterway in search of salvage. The Refugio ranchers who own the dried up lake bed when the treasure might be buried are blocking him. A federal court will decide.
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