A treasure trove of artifacts recovered from a 165-year-old shipwreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is being auctioned off while the man responsible for the discovery sits behind bars for a ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins has had that term ended by a federal judge in ...

Tommy Thompson, the scientist and explorer who discovered three tons of gold from the wreck of the S.S. Central America and later ended up in prison, is the subject of a new docuseries for Nat Geo.

Tommy Thompson did the impossible in 1988 and has been paying for it ever since. He found a gold-laden ship that sank in the Atlantic Ocean in the 1800s and developed equipment that plucked the ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins has had that term ended by a federal judge in ...

Treasure hunter Thomas "Tommy" Thompson, who recovered millions in gold from a shipwreck, has been in prison since 2015 for refusing to disclose the treasure's location. Despite a decade of ...

Tommy Thompson became famous for bringing up treasure from "Ship of Gold." — -- A famous treasure hunter has been arrested by U.S. Marshals after spending more than two years in hiding, ...