Santo Domingo, (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX).-  Marine Exploration, Inc. and Burt Webber's Hispaniola Ventures, LLC added a shipwreck to its Joint Venture.

Marine Exploration, Inc.'s research vessel, the R/V Hispaniola, has been operating from Samana Bay, Dominican Republic for the last two weeks.

"Our crew has been very busy operating training and reconnaissance missions in the waters to the North of the Coast on sites of great interest. We can report Burt Webber's discovery of a workable shipwreck dating from the 1700s located in the waters generally between Puerto Plata and Samana Bay," says MEXP Founder, Paul Enright.

Webber had previously recovered treasure from Spanish shipwrecks in the 1980s, although the dealings with the Dominican Government were never disclosed to the press.