Rival loses claim
NZPA-AP Key West All treasure recovered “within a reasonable distance” of a sunken Spanish galleon belongs to the salvor, Mel Fisher, and his company, Treasure Salvors, a Federal Judge has ruled. The ruling by Judge Aronovitz in the United States District Court dissolved an overlapping claim by a rival treasure salvor, Richard Lightner, owner of Pro-
methean Adventures and Ocean Recovery, of Key West. Lightner was “doing nothing but attempting to come in on the Atocha wreck site,” Judge Aronovitz said. Lightner claimed to have discovered another ancient but unidentified wreck near the Spanish galleon and was seeking salvage rights to an area Fisher’s
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