Image Credit: In this November 1989 file photo, Tommy Thompson holds a $50 pioneer gold piece retrieved earlier in 1989 from the wreck of the gold ship SS Central America.AP Photo/The Columbus Dispatch, Lon Horwedel
A former deep-sea treasure hunter who made one of the greatest shipwreck discoveries in American history and spent the past decade in prison after refusing to disclose the whereabouts of some of its missing gold coins is now free, federal records show.
Tommy Thompson, who in 1988 located what was known as the “Ship of Gold” off the coast of South Carolina, was released last Wednesday, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records reviewed by The Associated Press.
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