MIAMI (PRNewswire).- The treasure hunters Marine Exploration, Inc. has updated its website to include pictures it said it recovered sunken treasure including gold and pearl jewelry, silver fittings, and dynasty china, as a possible conflict with Dominican Republic’s authorities surfaces.

Marine Exploration CEO Mark Goldberg comments, "The pictures uploaded to our website are preliminary photos of a few pieces of sunken treasure that we just found. They have not yet been inventoried or cataloged according to our Host Country Contract. We have secured the treasure wreck site and are bringing the

R/V Hispaniola into port on the north shore for two days of provisioning and to bring aboard additional treasure holding tanks. Burt Webber will then take the team back to the wreck site to resume treasure recovery." 

The Company shall continue to issue near-term updates to its investors and the public as the recovery process continues.

Marine Exploration, Inc. and joint venture partner Hispaniola Ventures, LLC headed by Burt Webber, plan to continue the shipwreck site survey and salvage.

They anticipate locating and recovering additional historic shipwrecks with valuable artifacts and treasure. Working under exclusive contract with the

Dominican Republic, plans are in place to pursue multiple notable shipwrecks in Dominican Republic territorial and jurisdictional waters.

It said the pictures are available on the Web site www.mexp.biz.

Doubts surface in the Silver Banks

A Dominican Today source affirms that the Environment Ministry’s National Parks service has halted the American treasure hunters from working in the Silver Banks and the wreck of the French warship La Scipion and others in Samana. “The National Parks service has stopped the stockholding US companies from robbing the Dominican Republic of its cultural heritage. A lot of people who have an economic interest, publicly known or not, are very angry at this.”