By Helen Brown
The Telegraph, London
Thursday, June 19, 2025
"Shimmering gold lies in wait. ..." promises the website of treasure hunter Martin Bayerle. It is now 44 years since he discovered the "billion-dollar wreck" of the RMS Republic, the White Star liner that sank in 1909, three years before its fellow Harland & Wolff-made relative, the Titanic.
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The American adventurer, looking every inch the pirate in his eyepatch covering his left eye -- which he lost the use of at 11 after an explosives accident -- is still hoping to return to the wreck to recover an estimated 45 tons of gold that has lain 270 feet beneath the Atlantic waves where the vessel sank, about 50 miles south of Nantucket Island.
He doesn't have the money for the project, though. So, perhaps somewhat hopefully, his company, Lords of Fortune, is now seeking strangers to back an online crowdfunder to bankroll a proposed $500,000 (L372,000) salvage operation this year. The fund's total is currently L109,000, but the appeal's website claims it "now has the resources to plunder the Republic's riches and reward the team" and Bayerle "with the biggest payday in the history of maritime treasure hunting." ...
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