Canada Says It Will Halt Salvaging of Shipwreck
Canadian authorities say they intend to stop an operator from salvaging a 19th-Century Lake Erie shipwreck that he believes contains $60 million in gold.
Steven Morgan, of San Pedro-based Mar Dive Corp., said his company has claim to the steamer Atlantic, which sank in 1852 in Canadian waters west of Buffalo, N.Y. Ontario police, who patrolled waters near the wreck on Thursday, have orders to stop his project, said Armando de Peralta, spokesman for the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Communication.
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