{"id":41831,"date":"2014-04-29T07:36:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T11:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41831"},"modified":"2014-04-29T07:36:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T11:36:19","slug":"the-hedge-fund-kid-and-the-treasure-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2014\/the-hedge-fund-kid-and-the-treasure-ship.html","title":{"rendered":"The Hedge Fund Kid and the Treasure Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; On Monday,\u00a0a deep-water exploration ship\u00a0lingered 160 miles off the coast of Charleston, S.C. The vessel is operated by\u00a0Odyssey Marine Exploration\u00a0(OMEX), a company with a unique business model: It recovers treasure from shipwrecked vessels.<\/p>\n<p>Odyssey Marine hopes to retrieve an estimated\u00a0$86 million in gold\u00a0from the\u00a0<em>SS Central America<\/em>, a steamship sunk during a hurricane in 1857 while it carried large amounts of gold from California. The publicly traded, Tampa-based company is entitled to a substantial percentage of the riches. Naturally, Odyssey Marine is promoting the possibility of a big score on its website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-04-29\/the-hedge-fund-kid-and-the-treasure-ship\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; On Monday,\u00a0a deep-water exploration ship\u00a0lingered 160 miles off the coast of Charleston, S.C. The vessel is operated by\u00a0Odyssey Marine Exploration\u00a0(OMEX), a company with a unique business model: It recovers treasure from shipwrecked vessels. Odyssey Marine hopes to retrieve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41832,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41831\/revisions\/41832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}