An Odious Agenda

It's cheap but amusing entertainment watching the HH clan fall over themselves trying to determine where the Mercedes actually went down. Their consensus appears to be that it was not any where near where Odyssey said it found the Black Swan treasure.

The irony in this, of course, and it apparently escapes the history poseurs, is that this would actually confirm why Odyssey told the court it cannot definitively say the treasure and artifacts archaeologically recovered are from the Mercedes.

Now, if they are implying, and we think they are, that Odyssey is openly lying about where they found the treasure, then the HH folks are even more paranoid and conspiratorially minded than we ever imagined possible. Why they think Odyssey would gamble lying to the court about anything related to the find, especially since the ships' data is all electronically captured and available, is beyond our comprehension.

Also, in a post about the apparent large gap between the coins on the manifest and what Odyssey actually recovered (cue mysterious music), Solomon writes:

Some may have been looted by the same British scuba divers I know visited the site earlier, though I do not have detail specific to that aspect. If so, then I doubt the number of coins stolen was particularly large. The question therefore arises: why did not OMR take all that was there? The duration of the OMR salvage operation was six days. Why did they stop, leave the site and eventually return to Gibraltar? If asked under oath, how would the contractors to OMR answer?

First of all, scuba divers? At 1,100 meters (3,608 feet)? Really? Interesting.

Second, Odyssey only operated for six days? [Loud buzzer noise.] Try again, Solomon. Odyssey worked for weeks on the Black Swan recovery. In fact, the last time they worked the site they were out for nearly three weeks. Once again, HH won't let the facts get in the way of a good smear.

Lastly, note the clear undertone of accusation regarding Odyssey's explanation for the Black Swan recovery (apparently the HH clan fails to realize there's a lot they don't know about how Odyssey operated during this time, nor is it their business), punctuated by cheap shot innuendo that if only the "contractors" were questioned "under oath" the truth would come out. Again, no evidence or reasonable information is provided to support this line of scummy reasoning. Nope, it's merely driven by HH's fundamental belief that Odyssey is lying about everything and they're on to it.

That is not history, nor the pursuit of the truth, but an obvious and odious agenda.